ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Shipa Deployment Engine
Shipa recently open-sourced its deployment engine, which was originally designed to help developers deploy and manage cloud-native applications across multiple environments. The company said it will work with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as the deployment engine’s roadmap evolves in the future. Shipa’s application-centric deployment engine bridges the gap between continuous integration tools and … continue reading
IBM is splitting its managed infrastructure services unit into a new company
IBM’s Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division is splitting into a new public company currently referred to as NewCo. The separation is expected to be achieved as a tax-free spin-off to IBM shareholders, and completed by the end of 2021. While IBM will focus on its open hybrid cloud platform, AI … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rook graduates CNCF, StackRox and Robin.io partnership, and HazelCast IBM Cloud Pak
The open-source, cloud-native storage orchestrator Rook has officially graduated from the CNCF. This is evidence that the project has “demonstrated growing adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity,” the CNCF wrote in an announcement. The project was first accepted into the CNCF in 2018, and the … continue reading
Rancher 2.5 enables GitOps at scale
The latest release of Rancher is now available. Rancher 2.5 introduces a new installation experience, GitOps at scale for edge clusters, full life cycle management of EKS cluster, and a new security hardened Kubernetes distribution for government customers. “Exploding on-premise, public cloud and edge Kubernetes use cases are creating massive container sprawl,” said Sheng Liang, … continue reading
Veeam acquires Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery company Kasten
The backup solution provider for cloud data management has announced it is acquiring Kasten for approximately $150 million. Kasten is a provider of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery solutions. Veeam hopes the acquisition will help strengthen its data protection services, and help businesses with future-ready architectures. The news comes after Veeam and Kasten’s recent partnership … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Commvault Metallic Cloud Storage Service, Mirantis’ new training courses, and DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT
Commvault has announced the release of Metallic Cloud Storage Service, which is a cloud storage target for Commvault Backup and Recovery and HyperScale X. The new solution offers features such as single pane of glass management and security capabilities from Commvault and Azure. “The need to leverage the cloud is only accelerating, and having simple, … continue reading
NVIDIA announces new processors, collaboration tools, and supercomputer building blocks
NVIDIA has announced a number of new product announcements and updates at the GPU Technology Conference. Here are a few highlights: New processor featuring a data-center-infrastructure-on-a-chip architecture (DOCA) The new BlueField-2 DPU will enable breakthroughs in networking, storage, and security performance, NVIDIA explained. The new processor is optimized to offload critical networking, storage, and security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE
SPIFFE stands for the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. The project aims to define a framework and standards for identifying and securing communications between app services. According to its GitHub page, SPIFFE includes SPIFFE IDs implemented as Uniform Resource Identifiers. This defines how services services identify themselves to one another SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document … continue reading
Amazon releases new time series database for IoT and operational apps
Amazon has announced the general availability of Timestream, a new solution designed to enable users to store and access time series data at scale. The solution tackles Internet of Things and operational applications, and can scale to process trillions of time series events per day. The company believes it is 1,000 times faster than relational … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Twilio Microvisor, PagerDuty acquires Rundeck, and BMC updates
Twilio has announced it is expanding its IoT offerings with the release of the Microvisor IoT Platform. Microvisor provides a single platform for developers to build connected devices, keep them secure, and manage them. According to Twilio, the company’s goal is to accelerate IoT adoption by providing as much common infrastructure as possible. “While Super … continue reading
VMworld 2020: Cloud Disaster Recovery, Tanzu updates, Project Monterey, and more
VMware announced a range of solutions and services to help its customers build, run, manage, connect, and protect applications anywhere. These include new projects, acquisitions, and solutions were unveiled at VMWorld 2020. VMware aims to deliver unified platform for a modern, multi-cloud world In addition to providing wider support for running VMware applications on the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BMC and AWS integration, i2Coalition’s VTI Principles, and HPE’s new partner offerings
BMC and AWS have announced a new collaboration to improve enterprise cloud visibility. BMC Helix Discovery now integrates with AWS Systems Manager, allowing customers to easily identify and map resources on Amazon EC2 instances on AWS. “To achieve service and operations excellence, it’s critical that organizations have dynamic visibility into all their environments,” said Ali … continue reading
premium The future of IT self-service: 5 ways to never take a help call again
In the long term, organizations expect as many as 41% of their employees to work remotely at least part of the time. A recent Gartner survey reinforces the need for IT to deliver a user experience (UX) that the autonomous, remote worker of the future finds productive, non-invasive and trouble-free. The best user experience is … continue reading
Report finds nearly half of respondents delay rolling out applications because of container security concerns
Security continues to be a concern for container strategies. A recent report by the container security company StackRox found that 44% of respondents delayed rolling out applications into production because of security concerns and that security incidents among respondents remain high at 90%. “Rolling out an application that hasn’t passed a security assessment puts the business … continue reading
