Splice Machine’s Livewire brings operational AI to industrial IoT
Splice Machine announced a new open-source AI platform, Livewire, designed to combine data and AI, and alert plant operators of likely outages or performance degradation soon enough for them to take remedial action. According to the company, the platform enables teams of data engineers, operators, and data scientists to work together with unprecedented speed and … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Nobl9’s SLO platform now in beta, Pulumi’s round of funding for cloud engineering and Wipro and IBM team up on hybrid cloud
Nobl9 announced the public beta of its service level objective (SLO) platform for site reliability engineers. It aims to transform reliability metrics into actionable business KPIs. In addition, it works with Datadog and New Relic to collect critical metrics. “Every company—and especially companies who deliver software—must make wise resource allocation decisions and balance tradeoffs between … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeLinter
StackRox has released a new open-source static analysis tool for identifying misconfigurations in Kubernetes deployments. KubeLinter checks YAML files and Helm charts and validates whether they have been configured using security best practices. StackRox recently conducted a study that found human error as a top cause for Kubernetes security incidents, with misconfigurations contributing to 67% … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Exabeam updates Security Management Platform, Citrix adds new workplace solutions, and Pure Storage updates partner program
Exabeam has announced updates to its Security Management Platform (SMP). Exabeam SMP now can ingest data from Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blobs, and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage buckets. This enables security professionals to better distinguish malicious activity from normal behavior and easily identify and follow attacks before they lead to a security breach. Behaviors … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 to offer a more stable platform
Red Hat has announced the upcoming release of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 is expected to feature cloud-native innovation capabilities as well as a more stable platform. “From delivering the latest supported developer tools via Application Streams to making the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform even more accessible to systems administrators, … continue reading
VMware and Samsung form 5G Alliance to accelerate 5G transformation
The Samsung and VMware collaboration aims to accelerate the innovation cycle for 5G through network design end-to-end and by supporting the agility required for 5G networks. The companies seek to help communication service providers (CSPs) meet the requirements of 5G networks and to optimize Samsung’s portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN … continue reading
LogDNA announces new partnerships to streamline logging
LogDNA has announced new partnerships to help developers streamline DevOps workflows and logging. It added new documentation for its integration with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. LogDNA hopes to help users centralize logs from monolithic applications alongside logs from containerized applications. According to LogDNA, this partnership will help organizations use logs to securely move workloads … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift 4.6, AttackIQ and Microsoft Azure Sentinel, and Akamai acquires Asavie
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.6. The latest version introduces full stack automation installation of OpenShift on bare metal. This means that OpenShift can be run on any hosting platform. There is also a new Bare Metal Operator that prepares and exposes physical nodes to the OpenShift installer. Other new … continue reading
SolarWinds to acquire SentryOne to bolster database management capabilities
IT management company SolarWinds has announced it is acquiring SentryOne. SentryOne’s portfolio includes solutions for performance monitoring and DataOps on SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and the Microsoft Data Platform. The addition of SentryOne will complement SolarWinds’ existing on-premises and cloud-native database management offerings. It will also amplify and extend the level of support that … continue reading
The Cloud Security Alliance announces new risks, threats and vulnerabilities for migrating to the hybrid cloud
With hybrid clouds now often the starting point for organizations in their cloud journey, management, access control, data use, and service contracts become more difficult with multi-cloud convergence, according to the Cloud Security Alliance in a whitepaper. “Although the hybrid cloud environment seamlessly integrates private and public cloud, bringing onboard new IT capabilities to the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Akri
This week’s highlighted project is Akri, which is a new project from Microsoft for building a connected edge using Kubernetes. According to Microsoft, the edge is made up of an array of sensors, controllers, and microcontroller units (MCU) that produce data and perform actions. In order for Kubernetes to be a versatile tool for edge … continue reading
Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes: Solutions to common issues
The four key considerations for deploying applications to the edge are connectivity, architecture, sizing and scale, according to Mikhail Kozorovitskiy, consulting engineer at Rancher Labs. Kozorovitskiy explained these considerations as well as how to solve common issues they run into at the Computing on the Edge with Kubernetes conference yesterday. According to Kozorovitskiy, the four … continue reading
Puppet to simplify infrastructure configuration compliance policies with Puppet Comply
Puppet has announced a new solution designed to simplify hybrid infrastructure compliance for the Global 5000. Puppet Comply will work in conjunction with Puppet Enterprise to assess, remediate, and enforce infrastructure configuration compliance policies at scale. Additionally, the solution is designed to work across traditional and cloud environments. “In today’s enterprise, CIOs are responsible for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Dynatrace integration, Kubermatic 2.15, and IBM and R3 partnership
ServiceNow and Dynatrace have announced a new integration. Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform now connects to the ServiceNow Platform, providing customers of both with increased efficiency through intelligent automation and reduced risk of disruptions through its predictive problem detection and automatic remediation. “Dynatrace is a great partner for ServiceNow,” said Jeff Hausman, vice president and general … continue reading
