Report: More than half of companies expect IT spending to increase in 2022
Despite the pandemic, 61% of companies expect their revenues to increase significantly in 2022, prompting increased tech spending budgets for those companies. This is according to the 2022 State of IT report by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, a global marketplace that connects technology buyers and sellers with actionable and precise intent data. The company conducted a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Pure Fusion from Pure Storage, Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, and Sysdig and Google Cloud announce partnership
Pure Storage has announced the release of Pure Fusion, which is a self-service, autonomous storage solution. Pure Fusion pools storage arrays into availability zones and automates tasks like workload placement, workload mobility, and fleet rebalancing. Pure Fusion also includes an API framework that operations teams and end users can use to interact with storage in … continue reading
How to keep your cloud bill manageable
Cloud has many advantages, and one motivating factor that caused many to make the migration is the promise of cost savings. But even though cloud can cost less than on-premises data centers, it’s easy for companies to let their cloud bill get away from them. According to Asim Razzaq, CEO of Yotascale, there are a … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Notary
Notary is an open-source project that is trying to make the internet more secure. It consists of a server and client that can be used to run and interact with trusted collections. According to the project’s GitHub page, most of the web relies on TLS to secure communications to a web server, but if that … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: CNCF End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, Cymulate’s new security updates, and Barracuda email protection updates
The CNCF has announced the release of its End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, which provides recommendations on emerging technologies. It groups technologies into three categories: Assess, Trial, and Adopt. The Assess category includes Cilium, Harness, Sonatype Nexus, HashiCorp Sentinel, GitHub Actions, Linkerd, and Trivy. XRay is in the Trial category. Adopt includes technologies such … continue reading
Report: Sustainability is playing a large part in IT decisions
When an organization is looking to partner with a vendor, there are many factors to consider, and recently, sustainability has been added to that list. Many organizations are now opting to spend more money in order to protect the planet and make more environmentally conscious choices. CloudBolt Industry Insights, the research extension of CloudBolt Software, … continue reading
NS1 announces DDoS overage protection
The application traffic intelligence and automation provider NS1 announced DDoS Overage Protection, which prevents unexpected cost increases in the event of usage spikes due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against NS1’s Managed DNS. The number of DDoS attacks has jumped by 200% since last year and attack intensity grew by 300%. “Business resilience is synonymous … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: D2iQ Kubernetes Platform 2.0, ServiceMax Asset 360 for Salesforce updates, and Instaclustr’s managed Apache Cassandra 4.0
D2iQ has announced the latest version of its Kubernetes platform. D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) 2.0 includes a move to a CNCF CAPI architecture, air-gapped cluster provisioning, autoscaling, and better GitOps support. “DKP 2.0 represents our relentless focus on enabling customers to maximize their digital agility and thrive in fast-changing, highly competitive markets,” said Tobi Knaup, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Buildpacks
Buildpacks is an Incubation level project at the CNCF that converts source code into images that can be run on any cloud. It provides for equal control between developers and operations teams, ensures that apps meet security and compliance requirements, and allows administrators to perform updates with minimal intervention. The goal of the project is … continue reading
ServiceNow Platform Rome release focuses on employees
ServiceNow has released the next major version of its platform, dubbed Rome. The key focus of Now Platform Rome is to enable companies to adapt to hybrid work. “The rapid onset of hybrid work has accelerated the digital imperative and forever changed 21st century business models,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief product and engineering officer … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud Catalyst Program, Untangle Command Center updates, and Cloudflare Early Hints support
Google has announced new capabilities to help VMware users ease their migration of workloads to Google Cloud. Through its new Google Cloud Catalyst Program, it will offer one-time Google Cloud credits to offset existing VMware licenses, the ability to apply earned credits across any Google Cloud service, and the ability to earn more credits during … continue reading
Crossplane accepted as Incubating project at CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that the Kubernetes control plane Crossplane has been accepted as an Incubating project. “Kubernetes and cloud native projects have demonstrated that multi cloud innovation is possible and truly a reality in manproduction environments,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of CNCF. “The industry is ready for cross-cloud managed services … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Qualys zero-touch patching, 1E integration with ServiceNow, and SkyKick’s $130 million funding
Qualys has announced the addition of zero-touch patching capabilities into its Patch Management platform. According to the company, this new capability will ensure that endpoints and servers are patched as soon as those patches become available. Utilizing zero-touch patching capabilities, companies will be able to reduce ransomware risks, accelerate vulnerability SLA compliance, and lower their … continue reading
Lookout announces Zero Trust solution that adapts to changes in risk level
Lookout announced its new Zero Trust solution for any app that dynamically adapts based on data sensitivity and on a continuous risk assessment of endpoints and users. The solution is an expansion of Lookout Continuous Conditional Access (CCA), achieved by integrating the company’s Mobile Endpoint Security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions. Organizations have … continue reading
