Topic: devops
VMware announces new container runtime security capabilities
VMware unveiled new container runtime security capabilities to provide end-to-end security for cloud-native applications. The new capabilities aim to target the security challenges of containerized applications including how to allow only legitimate traffic in and how to enable least-privileged communications between services and defend against the lateral movement of attackers, according to the company. “Protecting … continue reading
New Relic announces a new infrastructure monitoring solution
New Relic announced the general availability of a new infrastructure monitoring solution that helps DevOps, SRE and ITOps teams isolate offending infrastructure components and view all related telemetry — including logs, events, and alerts — in context. The new solution aims to tackle the three key issues that surround infrastructure: the complexity of infrastructure, handling … continue reading
Aqua Security adds new features for assessing security risk
Cloud-native security company Aqua Security is introducing new features that will help companies address their security risk to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). According to Aqua Security, users can choose whether to go with a quick assessment of workload risk, or they can actively protect those workloads from attacks in runtime. They can … continue reading
BMC releases updates for data visibility and mainframe DevOps adoption
BMC announced new capabilities and integrations across its BMC AMI (Automated Mainframe Intelligence) and BMC Compuware portfolios that will help users improve service quality and accelerate software delivery. The company is aiming to enhance service quality with better data. The BMC Helix Discovery solution now automatically maps and visualizes service dependencies across mainframe and distributed … continue reading
Report: 85% of companies have yet to achieve full Kubernetes and cloud native adoption
Although companies have been adopting cloud native technologies at higher rates than ever before, 85% of companies have yet to fully cross the chasm to adoption when it comes to Kubernetes and cloud native. However, they are quickly moving in that direction. Nearly 78% of companies in Canonical’s Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Report had … continue reading
Report: digital transformation initiatives are causing increased adoption of SRE in ITOps
A new study found that the increased need for process automation and SREs has been fueled by companies’ increase in digital transformation initiatives as well as remote and hybrid work policies. Industries have seen a 90% increase in customer-affecting issues and 68% of businesses reported an increased cost of downtime since the pandemic began. Now, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubestr
Kasten by Veeam announced a new community project to help DevOps and PlatformOps optimize Kubernetes storage resources. Kubestr is an open-source project designed to evaluate Kubernetes cluster storage configurations and performance. While the introduction of Container Storage Interface (CSI) has enabled more cloud-native storage offerings, the company explained there is an overwhelming amount of options … 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
Amazon revealed the DevOps Guru for detecting operational issues
Amazon wants to make it easier for developers and operators to improve application availability with the release of the Amazon DevOps Guru. The new solution automatically detects operational issues and then will recommend a fix. “Once a behavior is identified as an operational problem or risk, DevOps Guru alerts developers and operators to the details … continue reading
Enterprises require SREs to supplement Ops teams, rather than replace them
Since Google released its Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) book in 2016, the field has gained widespread attention. However, adopting SRE as defined by Google is not as applicable to most organizations as it may seem, according to Sanjeev Sharma, a principal analyst of Accelerated Strategies, who spoke at Catchpoint’s “SRE from Home” virtual event last … continue reading
Puppet announces Relay for cloud-native, event driven automation
Puppet introduced the public beta of Relay, an event-driven automation platform that automates across any cloud infrastructure, tools and APIs that developers, DevOps engineers, and SREs are managing manually currently. “Without a way to manage and automate the flood of events and hundreds of APIs developers use – time, money and mental capital are being … continue reading
Red Hat: Culture change and automation are necessary to create DevOps and SRE teams
In order to bring more effective operational practices, DevOps and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams need to go through a culture change within the organization. Red Hat held its virtual summit this week where it talked about how to reinvent IT Ops as SRE. According to the company, change can happen by automating processes and … continue reading
