VMware Cloud platform launches to give more flexibility over modernization efforts
VMware has announced the release of its new VMware Cloud platform. According to the company, this new offering will enable developers to build and deploy to any cloud, and provide IT with capabilities for modernizing infrastructure and operations. “We are on the cusp of the next evolution of cloud and apps. Architectures are becoming distributed … continue reading
Cisco Live: Cisco Plus, improved endpoint protection, and more
Cisco announced a number of new updates at its Cisco Live! event, which started on Monday. Here are a few highlights of new solutions, such as Cisco Plus and Duo passwordless authentication: Cisco Plus offers as-a-service models With Cisco Plus, customers will be able to pick and choose the solutions that best suit their needs. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Sysdig’s Cloud Security Posture Management, iSite’s Planned Maintenance module, and Accenture to acquire Cygni
Sysdig has announced the release of continuous cloud security posture management for AWS, which automatically discovers cloud services and flags misconfigurations and compliance violations. Cloud security posture management builds on Cloud Custodian, which is a cloud infrastructure security tool. The company also announced support for cloud threat detection for AWS and GCP. Customers will be … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Red-Shadow
Cloud security provider Lightspin developed a new open-source scanner Red-Shadow that reports when user permissions are loosely defined, which opens up an attack path for hackers. Lightspin released the scanner after it announced the results of its research that discovered a gap between AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user group policies that attackers can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift on AWS, TruSTAR and ServiceNow integration, and Elastic Observability 7.2
Red Hat has announced OpenShift is now available on AWS. Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) will make it easier for OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. Key benefits include the ability to use familiar APIs and tools, pay-as-you-go pricing, and the elimination of the need to manage two vendor … continue reading
Report: Fusion of security and network planning is accelerating
The fusion of security and network planning has been accelerating over the past year, according to Aryaka’s recently released 2021 Global State of the WAN report. According to the report, almost a third of companies surveyed are already deploying secure access service edge (SASE) architectures. This close integration of networks and security will become even … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Chef releases, Jumio funding, and DataStax partners with IBM
Progress has announced its first releases of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and Chef Infra Client since acquiring the company in October. The latest version of EAS include Chef Infra Compliance Phase, which allows users to automatically perform compliance audits during Chef Infra Client runs; Chef Infras State Management Dashboards, which allow users to view … continue reading
Google Cloud announces new networking solution: Network Connectivity Center
Google has announced the Network Connectivity Center to simplify on-premise and cloud networking. The new center is designed to provide planet-scale network management, tackling complex networks and connectivity needs. “As you shift to a cloud-first strategy, you have to manage the complexity of connecting resources across on-prem locations and the cloud to ensure access to … continue reading
VMware announces intent to acquire Mesh7
VMware has announced its intention to acquire cloud native API security mesh Mesh7, which will enable it to bring visibility, discovery, and better security to APIs. According to VMware, its customers are engaged in app modernization efforts, and modern apps require reliable connectivity, dynamic service discovery, and the ability to automate changes. In addition, security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Griffin
Griffin is an app created by Axway that provides assistance to team members and helps in the transitions involved in slowly opening offices around the world. The first major feature going into the Griffin App was to be an Office Scheduling assistant. This assistant in the app allows admins to set and change the normal … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackPulse Free, Logz.io’s Prometheus-as-a-Service, and IFS Cloud
StackPulse has announced a free version of its reliability platform, giving developers, DevOps, and SRE teams a more cost effective way to respond to software outages, automate operations, and provide more reliable software. StackPulse Free includes code-based playbooks for automation, and integration into existing monitoring, observability, and communications tools. The other paid version, StackPulse Enterprise, … continue reading
New Relic announces next-gen AIOps capabilities
New Relic announced new AIOps capabilities to democratize AI-assisted incident response for engineers and to introduce free forever access to instant anomaly detection. Engineers can now uncover anomalies automatically through a feature that’s enabled by default and available for free to all users. They can also see the probable root cause of every incident from … continue reading
Transposit launches over 200 new integrations to bridge the gap between DevOps and IT Ops
DevOps orchestration company Transposit has announced new pre-built integrations with over 200 services and tools, such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and GitHub. The company believes that these integrations will help save organizations time and money by eliminating the need for them to build and maintain custom integrations to these services on their own. Teams … continue reading
VMware updates its vRealize Cloud Management portfolio
VMware has announced updates to its portfolio designed to give its customers more capabilities for monitoring, securing, optimizing, and automating their VMware cloud and public cloud services. VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 introduces enhanced public cloud provisioning support, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config integration, network automation with NSX-T migration support, and self-service automation for VMware cloud on … continue reading
