Executives at elevated risk for cyber threats on social media
SafeGuard Cyber, the only SaaS platform dedicated to managing the full lifecycle of digital risk protection, today released findings from a survey of 600 enterprise leaders across marketing, communications, and information security roles about the cyber risk exposure to their companies’ executives’ social media accounts. Key findings indicate that while enterprises are investing more in … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: FogHorn and IBM collaboration, Jetstack Secure, and SentinelOne acquires Scalyr
FogHorn and IBM have announced a collaboration that will bring together FogHorn’s edge capabilities with IBM’s cloud capabilities. “With computing done in so many places—on public and private clouds and the edge–the challenge that businesses face is to connect all these different elements into a cohesive, end-to-end platform,” said Chris Penrose, chief operating officer at … continue reading
Open Policy Agent graduates from CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that Open Policy Agent (OPA) is graduating. Graduation from the CNCF indicates that a project has shown “widespread adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity,” according to the CNCF. OPA is a tool for ensuring policy across an … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Operations Sandbox
Google is trying to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to its customers, and to that end it has released a new open-source project called the Cloud Operations Sandbox. “Customers want to learn how to instrument services for observability and implement SRE best practices using tools Google Cloud has to offer, but without risking production environments,” … continue reading
Lightstep brings AIOps to observability
Observability platform provider Lightstep announced a new way to approach observability with the release of Change Intelligence. The new solution aims to provide better clarity and enable users to resolve issues before they hit customers. According to the company, while AIOps promises to improve IT operations, it doesn’t take into account today’s complex and ever-changing … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Veeam Backup for Google Cloud, IBM’s new hybrid cloud build team, and Cisco AppDynamic’s new security solution
Veeam has released a new version of Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, strengthening the partnership between the two companies. With this new offering, Veeam hopes to offer a single platform for protecting, securing, and managing applications and data. New features include Google Cloud-Native snapshots, cost optimization, security, and easy recovery outside of Google Cloud. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Open Telemetry to use observIQ’s log agent, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications, and Untangle’s new Channel Partner Portal
Open Telemetry will be using observIQ’s log agent Stanza as a key component for log collection. Several members of observIQ’s team will join the Open Telemetry as project maintainers. “We are thrilled to integrate observIQ’s Stanza log agent into the OpenTelemetry Project,” said Morgan McLean, co-founder of OpenTelemetry. “observIQ’s contribution to the logs portion of … continue reading
Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security provider Alcide
Rapid7 acquired the Kubernetes provider Alcide to help its customers rapidly adopt and secure cloud environments. Alcide provides Kubernetes security fully integrated into the DevOps lifecycle and processes so that business applications can be rapidly deployed while also protecting cloud environments from malicious attacks, according to Brian Johnson, the SVP of Cloud Security Practice at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Anuket
LF Networking has announced the launch of a new open-source project called Anuket. Anuket brings together the Cloud Infrastructure Telco Taskforce (CNTT) and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) to unify the ecosystem of telecom operators, vendors, and system integrators. The project will help to enable rapid deployment of cloud native and virtual network functions (CNFs … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Platform9 updates, CSA updates IoT Security Controls Framework, and Dynatrace expands Google Cloud partnership
Platform9 has announced new features in its managed Kubernetes solutions. Updates include multi-version Kubernetes support, enhanced cluster deployment options, and upgrades manageability. According to the company, these updates are intended mainly for companies within the technology, retail, telco, media, and entertainment industries. “Focused on offering ease-of-use features and increasing efficiencies, this product release continues to … continue reading
Kintaba Milestones allows significant moments to be documented during outages
Incident management company Kintaba has announced a new feature called Milestones that allows companies to document moments, or milestones, during a major outage or breach. According to Kintaba, having an accurate timeline of events from responders within the organization can help provide a better understanding of what’s happening. It is also helpful during post-mortems as … continue reading
Google announces BeyondCorp Enterprise, its new zero trust product offering
Google announced the release of BeyondCorp Enterprise which extends and replaces BeyondCorp Remote Access for companies to start their own zero-trust implementation. The solution includes non-disruptive, agentless support through the Chrome Browser, access to Google’s global network, and the entire surface area is protected by Google’s scalable DDoS protection service, which has been proven to … continue reading
Report: Releasing microservices into production a challenge for many organizations
Despite having become mainstream over the past few years, many organizations still struggle with actually releasing microservices into production. According to the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 report from Vamp, 72% of respondents use Kubernetes and 81% use microservices in production, but nearly 9 in 10 respondents report challenges and issues when releasing microservices … continue reading
Longhorn extends Kubernetes-native storage capabilities to support edge deployments
SUSE, a global leader in true open source innovation and owner of the Rancher container management platform, today celebrates the release of Longhorn 1.1. Longhorn has been a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project since October 2019. Since becoming generally available in June 2020, Longhorn adoption has increased by +235% to become a mainstay … continue reading
