ITOps Times news digest: Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, Tufin supports Google Cloud Platform, and Trend Micro’s cloud-native file storage security
Mirantis has announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes. This is a part of the company’s planned series of Kubernetes enhancements to its Mirantis Cloud Native Platform. Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes provides an environment for hosting legacy and modern apps. Use cases include network functions virtualization, mobile network operations, and large-scale scientific computing. “Organizations … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CrowdSec
This week’s highlighted open-source project is CrowdSec, which is a new tool that takes a crowdsourced approach to security automation. It uses a combination of local IP detection and an online community-based IP reputation system to protect networks. According to the team, the tool goes through logs to assess the behavior of IP addresses that … continue reading
Why OpenTelemetry is here to stay
It is no longer possible to instrument the world. Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion of software development. With that growing interest has come an ever-diversifying, fractal landscape of widely shared software libraries. Applying these shared libraries makes up most of modern programming. This has been a wonderful experience, but there’s … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic acquires Pixie Labs, Infosys Modernization Suite, and Element Unify
Application monitoring company New Relic has announced that it signed an agreement to acquire Pixie Labs. Pixie Labs is a provider of a Kubernetes observability platform that lets users set all of their applications’ metrics, events, logs, and traces from a single CLI command. New Relic also announced it will be offering a self-managed version … continue reading
BackupAssist Classic v11 Launches to Help Ensure Cybercrime Resilience
BackupAssist®, the leading provider of automated backup and recovery software for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), today announced the general availability (GA) launch of BackupAssist Classic® version 11 (v11). Engineered to aid clients in remaining at the forefront of cybercrime resilience, BackupAssist v11 includes critical enhancements across its CryptoSafeGuard® ransomware solution, password protection, and S3 compatible destinations, as well … continue reading
xMatters announces new adaptive incident management features
xMatters’ new adaptive incident management feature advancements provide increased automation across each stage of the incident management lifecycle – diagnosis and collaboration, resolution and post-incident learning. An increase in the number of change-related incidents and the furious speed of new software releases demand more automation be applied across the incident management lifecycle to accelerate actions. … continue reading
Gartner’s top trends for I&O in 2021
As organizations come to realize that employees likely will continue working remotely even after vaccines for the coronavirus are administered, the need for operations to happen remotely is among the six top trends Gartner has identified for infrastructure and operations (I&O) in 2021. “The coronavirus pandemic has forced IT executives to adapt their operations to … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.20 now available
The third Kubernetes release of the year, Kubernetes 1.20, is now available. In this release, 11 enhancements moved to stable, 15 moved to beta, and 16 are entering alpha. According to the release team, this is one of the most feature-dense Kubernetes releases in a while. “What you can takeaway from this is that Kubernetes’ … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Gluware 4.0, Axis Security’s Application Access Cloud, and Amazon S3 update
Gluware 4.0 is now available with an expanded feature set. The network automation platform added capabilities to help network teams automate management, maintenance, and security of increasing complex, mission-critical networks. It features a new multi-engine architecture to help automate network functions. Gluware 4.0 also introduces a new SaaS model that simplifies the user onboarding and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Contour
Contour is a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes which provides the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy. Contour is currently listed as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubating project meaning it has to cross over from being used by the early majority to the late majority before graduating. The project supports dynamic … continue reading
Netenrich ISOC offers organizations SOC as a service
Netenrich has announced the launch of its Intelligent SOC (ISOC) as a service, which aims to provide enterprises with flexibility and choice in their cybersecurity investments, and the ability to scale as needed. Netenrich ISOC is designed to remove the barriers and complexities associated with security operations. Organizations can use it to scale their security … continue reading
Cohesity introduces DataProtect and SiteContinuity as a service for backup and disaster recovery
Cohesity is on a mission to simplify data management with the announcement of its new SaaS offerings. The general availability of Cohesity DataProtect and SiteContinuity as a service tackles backup and disaster recovery by making sure on-premises and cloud-based data is safe and secure. According to a recent survey from the company, 94% of respondents … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Platform9 and MayaData partnership, Nutanix updates, and GigaSpaces’ InsightEdge portfolio
Platform9 and MayaData have announced a partnership where they will collaborate on optimizing high-performance workloads on Kubernetes. Platform9 users will be able to deploy and operate MayaData’s Kubera Propel, which offers a validated enterprise edition of the CNCF project OpenEBS. “Platform9 has earned a great reputation as a provider of managed Kubernetes, eliminating operational deployment … continue reading
Logz.io starts early access for Prometheus-as-a-Service offering
Logz.io has announced an early access program for its Prometheus-as-a-Service offering. This new offering will allow customers to take advantage of the benefits of Prometheus, without the downsides, such as storing metrics over long periods of time, the company explained. According to Logz.io, current Prometheus users can quickly switch over to its managed version with … continue reading
