Single sign-on (SSO) for backend infrastructure provider strongDM has announced that it now offers the ability to secure access to all classes of tools that technical staff use. The company has extended support over the past two years to include more database management, SSH, RDP, and kubectl. Other new support include delegation of credentials to … continue reading
Log management company Graylog has announced that it is introducing a Server Side Public License (SSPL) to its open source product in the Graylog 4.0 release, which is available later this week. According to Graylog, SSPL provides similar open source rights as GPL v3. It also extends those rights to cover cloud and SaaS offerings. … continue reading
Blue Prism announced the release of its Automation Lifecycle Suite with several new tools that make it easier for enterprises to unlock the full potential of intelligent digital workers. The suite includes Automation Lifecycle Management, Process Assessment Tool, and Capture: Process Modeller, which makes it easier to identify, deploy and scale automation and reduce the … continue reading
Bare metal cloud provider Hivelocity has announced it is teaming up with Vapor IO to extend its bare metal cloud to service providers in 36 US cities, starting in Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Vapor IO’s Kinetic Edge platform brings together multi-tenant colocation with software defined interconnection and high-speed networking. According to Hivelocity, the platform provides flexible, … continue reading
The open cloud company behind the popular Lens Kubernetes IDE project, Mirantis, announced a new Extensions API that enables the rapid development of extensions for seamless integration with any Kubernetes-integrated component, toolkit, or service. “The Extension API and Extensions made in collaboration with many popular CNCF projects, opens up the world to Kubernetes developers greatly … continue reading
Tinkerbell is a tool that enables users to provision and manage bare metal. It helps standardize infrastructure and application management using the API-centric configuration and automation approach that was pioneered by the Kubernetes community. It is made up of four major components: a DHCP server called Boots, a metadata service called Hegel, an in-memory operating … continue reading
Instana has announced that it now offers the ability to monitor and trace applications using Google Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Storage technologies. “As organizations push their applications to run faster and operate more efficiently, they’re taking advantage of cloud-based software infrastructure platforms such as Google Cloud Storage, PubSub and Cloud Run,” said Chris Farrell, Observability … continue reading
IBM announced a series of data and automation updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation on Red Hat OpenShift to help companies with innovation across their expanding environments and to accelerate digital transformations. Cloud Pak for Data will now receive new industry accelerators for banking, warranty management, supply chain forecasting, and … continue reading
Isovalent has launched with $29 million in Series A funding to help companies connect, observe, and secure applications with Cilium, which is an eBPF-based networking, security, and observability tool. Cilium’s approach to networking frees applications from outdated techniques that place limits on the agility that is needed to adopt Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. Isovalent … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks has announced a new data loss prevention solution called Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP). According to the company, the solution helps prevent data breaches by identifying intellectual property and PII throughout the enterprise, facilitating regulatory compliance, and inhibiting risky user behavior. “Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the … continue reading
Atlassian is introducing Jira Service Management, which is a new ITSM solution. The platform is designed to help bring developers and IT operations teams together to collaborate at high velocity, enabling them to quickly respond to business changes and deliver great customer service. According to the company, Jira Service Management is the next generation of … continue reading
Outages can be devastating to digital businesses — if your app isn’t working, or if your site is down, you’re losing revenue by the minute. And in the modern world of high-velocity application development, outages are a matter of if, not when. However, many companies don’t spend the time and resources necessary to prepare for … continue reading
This week’s selected project is Carnegie Mellon University’s relational database management system (DBMS) NoisePage. NoisePage is designed for autonomous deployment, and uses integrated machine learning components to control configuration, optimization, and tuning. It also supports capabilities like automated physical database design, knob configuration tuning, SQL tuning, and hardware capacity/scaling. “Our research focuses on building the … continue reading
Tracing company Lightstep and SLO platform Nobl9 have announced a new partnership. By leveraging Lightstep’s tracing capabilities with Nobl9’s SLO capabilities, organizations will be able to establish SLOs from performance data captured by Lightstep. The integration will be made available as a private beta in the Nobl9 platform. “Engineers in charge of delivering reliable software … continue reading