ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TrueNAS CORE
TrueNAS is an open-source storage OS that gives users the power to build their own professional-grade storage system to use in a variety of data-intensive applications without any software costs. “IT professionals, photographers, designers, audio/video producers and editors, developers, and any user serious about storing and protecting lots of data can take advantage of TrueNAS … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Solo.io funding, TrueNAS and Futurex integration, and Kentik funding
Solo.io has announced it raised $135 million in a Series C funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to-date to $171.5 million and its valuation up to $1 billion. According to the company, this is a 10x increase since its last funding round in October of last year. The Series C was led by Altimeter … continue reading
Nirmata releases policy management solution to ensure compliance of Kubernetes workloads
Policy-based security and automation company Nirmata has announced the release of its Cloud Native Policy Management solution, which helps teams ensure security, compliance, and readiness of Kubernetes workloads. According to Nirmata, automating the creation, deployment, and management of policy-based guardrails allows customers to get insights, alerts, and reports. It also allows for better collaboration across … continue reading
OpenStack Xena release takes aim at reducing technical debt
OpenStack announced the 24th release of its open-source cloud infrastructure software. Dubbed “Xena,” updates include new hardware features, improved integration among components, and a reduction of technical debt. The new release follows a new finding that organizations with deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores have logged significant growth according to the … continue reading
A People’s History of Kubernetes
The 30th anniversary of Linux gives us a chance to reflect on the evolution of open source and how it has transformed the corporate landscape of technology-makers. While open-source software was originally seen as a democratization of technology and a threat to traditional corporations, disruptive startups and tech giants who have adapted successfully have found … continue reading
Report: MTTR proves to be inaccurate metric for success
The mean time to resolve (MTTR), the industry gold standard for success and efficiency, proves to be an inaccurate metric for success. The 2021 VOID report by chaos engineering company Verica set to come to conclusions about how to tackle software-based failures, but do to the distribution of data, the company found MTTR wasn’t a … continue reading
Rookout introduces new Kubernetes debugging capabilities
Observability platform Rookout has announced the release of new debugging capabilities for Kubernetes. According to Rookout, debugging complex, cloud-native applications can be difficult even for experienced engineers due to their distributed nature. Rookout has attempted to solve this by creating a new UI that groups cloud resources by namespace, pod, and cluster, and highlighting components … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA variable retention, Cloudian announces Red Hat OpenShift support, and Esper raises $60 million in Series C
LogDNA has announced an early access release of its new variable retention feature. Variable retention allows users to save logs in LogDNA’s UI only while they’re relevant, which allows them to ingest new types of data and keep costs down. Users can set rules by defining a LogDNA search syntax that will match logs and … continue reading
Report: IT teams should make more investments in end-user experience
In order to deliver the technology experiences employees need in order to stay productive, IT teams need to invest not just in tools, but in end-user experience. According to a new report from Forrester titled “Build the Foundation of Proactive Technology Support,” many operations teams are transforming the way they service internal customers. They are … continue reading
Infrastructure as Code: The case for continuous delivery
The adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has grown rapidly over the past few years. Previously, IT teams had to constantly provision cloud resources to run applications efficiently, being mindful of over-provisioning and wasting resources. This manual approach was a relic of the pre-cloud era that mimicked in-house data center provisioning, and doesn’t match the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Trace Compass
Eclipse Trace Compass is an open-source application to solve performance and reliability issues by reading and analyzing logs or traces of a system. The goal of the project is to provide views, graphs, metrics, and more to help extract useful information from traces in a way that is more user-friendly and informative than huge text … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Kasten K10 V4.5, Linkerd 2.11, and NeuVector’s Kubernetes Configuration Assessment Tool
The Kubernetes data management platform Kasten K10 V4.5 is now available. The latest version focused on improving the out-of-the-box capabilities, expanding edge features, and broadening ecosystem support. “Current Kubernetes data management tools often require extensive expertise and set up time when first deployed, and lack process automation for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting within an environment,” … continue reading
Ansible Automation Platform 2 released to drive better cloud-native automation
Red Hat announced the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2 to drive cloud-native automation and help developers become automators. The latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle. The platform is now fully restructured for a hybrid cloud-native world and it makes it easier … continue reading
Dell updates ProSupport suite and security capabilities
Dell announced added capabilities to ProSupport Suite for PCs to make IT support easier and more customizable through the use of AI and new endpoint security offerings. The enhancements include greater IT visibility, remote remediation, actionable recommendations, and automated custom update catalog management and deployment capabilities. “If your PCs aren’t productive, your employees aren’t either,” … continue reading
