AIOps and the evolution of the hybrid ITOM model
AIOps has been described as the future of IT operations, as intelligent automation removes much of the heavy lifting that has required people to handle and manage. Michael Fisher, product management director at OpsRamp, an IT operations management company, shared his view of AIOps and what it has meant to organizations that have adopted it. … continue reading
AWS Backup Audit Manager now available
AWS announced the availability of AWS Backup Audit manager, which is a new feature of AWS Backup to help users monitor and evaluate the compliance status of their backups to ensure they meet business and regulatory requirements. It is a fully managed service which allows users to initiate policy-driven backups and restores of AWS applications … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NetBox
NetBox is an infrastructure resource modeling (IRM) tool for network automation. It was initially developed at DigitalOcean to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers. It addresses aspects of network management, such as IP address management, equipment racks, types of devices and where they are installed, connections among devices, virtual machines and clusters, long-haul … continue reading
Wind River and Intel partner to develop 5G vRAN solution
Wind River has announced a partnership with Intel in which the two companies will jointly develop a 5G vRAN solution. This will include integrating Wind River Studio with Intel FlexRAN reference software, Intel Ethernet 800 Network Adapters, and Intel vRAN Dedicated Accelerator ACC100. Wind River Studio is a cloud-native platform for developing, deploying, managing, and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA and PagerDuty integration, Opsera and HashiCorp partnership, and Grafana Labs funding
LogDNA has announced a new feature for its PagerDuty integration: the ability to auto-resolve PagerDuty Incidents. This enables SREs to be more confident in when an incident is truly over and eliminates the need to manually go through logs and monitor infrastructure to determine when a system is back up. Customers can define a number … continue reading
IBM expands zero trust strategy
IBM expanded its zero trust strategy with new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) services to help modernize network security. SASE is a new architecture model designed to address the requirements of organizations that are digitally transforming, adopting cloud and SaaS applications, and providing services to a hybrid workforce and customer base. The new service leverages … continue reading
wasmCloud joins CNCF as Sandbox project
The WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic today announced that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted its universal application runtime for building cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can run anywhere as its latest Sandbox project. The key features of the runtime called wasmCloud include faster development time and lower lifetime maintenance, high portability, near-native performance, a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Solo.io updates Gloo Mesh Enterprise, NS1 launches NetBox Cloud, and Arista EOS updates
Solo.io has announced updates to Gloo Mesh Enterprise. According to Solo.io, the latest updates simplify the process of setting up multi-cluster and multi-mesh service mesh environments. Gloo Mesh Enterprise now includes Gloo Mesh Gateway, which is an API gateway. Other new features include observability improvements, improved security certificate management, added N-4 version support for Istio, … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks launched Cortex XDR for Cloud
Palo Alto Networks launched Cortex XDR for Cloud 3.0, which automates threat detection and investigation across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity, from a single console. The third-generation version offers even broader protections by detecting malicious user activities and insider threats through the analysis of identity data. In addition, Cortex XDR 3.0 offers security teams forensic … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Rook
Rook provides cloud-native file, block, and object storage for Kubernetes. According to the project’s website, “Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services.” Rook automates tasks that would normally be handled by a storage administrator, such as deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management. It can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Citrix integration, SUSE Professional Services on AWS, and Syncron and Mize merge
ServiceNow and Citrix have announced a new Virtual Agent integration that allows IT teams to more quickly resolve incidents. The new integration combines the power of ServiceNow ITSM with the Citrix ITSM Connector app, which allows IT to automate desktop session reset actions within Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop services. “Like much of the workforce, … continue reading
SUSE receives Common Criteria certification
SUSE’s flagship Linux distribution, Linux Enterprise, has earned the Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification for IBM Z, Arm, and x86-64 platforms. This signifies compliance with the most demanding security requirements for mission-critical infrastructure, according to SUSE. The exponential growth in IoT and edge devices has prompted countries to raise their compliance requirements for infrastructure providers, … continue reading
Pepperdata adds GPU monitoring capabilities
Data management company Pepperdata has added observability capabilities for GPUs that are running big data applications, such as Spark or Kubernetes. According to the company, workloads that utilize large amounts of data need GPUs, which were initially created to accelerate graphics rendering. GPUs tend to be resource and cost intensive, which means they need to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Barracuda RMM updates, Quest Software updates disaster recovery capabilities, and Avaya and Microsoft integration
Security company Barracuda has announced updates to its remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform Barracuda RMM. Key updates include integrations with Windows Defender, updates to Microsoft and third-party patch management, tighter integration with Barracuda Intronis Backup, and ServiceNow Service Desk integration. “The continued enhancements we are making to Barracuda RMM are part of our ongoing … continue reading
