Topic: cloud
IT Ops Times news digest: CNCF archives rkt, Rancher Labs Platinum Partner Program, and Singularity Enterprise
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it has voted to archive the rkt project. The project is an application container engine that was developed by CoreOS for cloud-native environments. According to the CNCF, while rkt was popular when it was created in December 2014, user adoption has severely declined. CNCF hosts other container runtime … continue reading
How Coexistence Offers a New Strategy for Seamless Cloud-to-Cloud Migrations
The advantages of cloud computing have proven themselves in business practices. What organization wouldn’t want to lower capital expenditures and realize greater elasticity to grow its business? The benefits are many and companies have adopted accordingly. The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud report from Flexera showed 94 percent of respondents rely on the cloud, … continue reading
Unravel launches new cloud assessment tool for migrations
Unravel Data has announced a new cloud assessment tool that will help organizations move their workloads to the cloud. The solution is available for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. According to the company, this new tool offers details of the source environment and its applications, identifies suitable workloads for the cloud and determines optimal cloud … continue reading
Think through your path to modernization and the cloud
The cloud is not a yes/no question – but, if it were, the answer is yes. Yes, cloud resources can help companies to modernize their systems and gain access to capabilities they never had before. Unless you work for a Fortune 100 company that has made considerable investments in building cloud-like data centers, you can’t … continue reading
The secret to cloud-native computing: ‘Less is more’
Hybrid IT. Hyperconverged infrastructure. Multicloud. Containers and microservices. It seems that the entire IT infrastructure landscape is advancing so quickly, it might as well be lava under our feet. It is imperative that we find some island, some core of stability, lest the shifting magma of innovation and disruption burn us to a crisp. The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud, Google Cloud responds to outage, and Postmates open sources Configurable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
IBM has announced the general release of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). According to IBM, VPC allows customers to “manage virtual machine-based compute, storage, and networking resources in a private, secure space you define.” VPC provides the logic isolation and security offered by private clouds, while also providing the availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the … continue reading
Microsoft and Oracle aim to make cloud interoperability a reality
Two rival cloud providers are teaming up to bring hybrid and multi-cloud deployment to fruition. Microsoft and Oracle today announced a new partnership that will connect Microsoft Azure to the Oracle Cloud. “The majority of large enterprises around the world use both Oracle and Microsoft solutions to power their businesses, running these solutions side-by-side in … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft 7.2, Cockroach Labs’ new partnerships, and StorageCraft ShadowXafe
AIOps provider Moogsoft has announced an update to its platform. According to the company, Moogsoft 7.2 introduces capabilities to optimize service assurance, such as a new workflow engine, AI visualization, performance dashboards, and tool integrations. “Our goal is to make Moogsoft the solution of choice for all enterprises – large and small – for agile, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Syncsort Invent, Kublr’s VMware integration, and ACM Software System Award
Syncsort has launched a new initiative that will help enterprises shift to Next Wave infrastructures such as cloud and blockchain. Syncsort Invent will have five focuses: hybrid cloud, streaming, AI, blockchain, and data governance. It will initially focus on the intersection of legacy data systems with cloud and blockchain. Its hybrid cloud initiative will focus … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Akamai’s Enterprise Defender, Apptio acquires Cloudability, and Xnor.ai’s AI2GO
Akamai has launched Enterprise Defender, which will enable organizations to easily transition to more secure architectures that are based on Zero Trust principles. The solution is designed to provide application specific access rather than network access, protect applications from attacks, protect the workforce from malware and phishing, and deliver better user experiences, the company explained. … continue reading
Netwrix report: Nearly half of organizations storing PII in the cloud want it back on-premises
Security is near the top of almost every company’s agenda. So much so, that 46 percent of organizations that store customer personally identifiable information (PII) in the cloud are considering moving back to on-premises due to security concerns, according to this year’s Netwrix report on cloud data security. “The report revealed that organizations are misled … continue reading
SAP partners with hyperscalers to move more companies to the cloud
SAP is teaming up with cloud providers Amazon, Microsoft and Google as well as global strategic service partners to walk companies through their transition to cloud-based business innovation. The project called Embrace will tailor the core components to each company based on the language and context of their industry. This includes roadmapping the platform, software, … continue reading
