IBM has announced it is acquiring European cloud company Nordcloud to further its cloud migration capabilities. Prior to the acquisition, Nordcloud provided its customers with cloud implementation, transformation, and managed services. “Our clients are increasingly taking a more holistic approach to application modernization that allows them to operate across a traditional IT environment, private cloud … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU is continuing through tomorrow. Here are a few more highlights from the event: Datadog updates Live Containers Datadog Live Containers is a solution that provides visibility into containers across an environment. It now provides curated views for Kubernetes applications, which allows users to look at performance data and surface critical information … continue reading
The virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU kicked off yesterday, and a number of cloud-native companies announced new offerings and updates to existing products. Here are a few highlights: Carbon Relay launches free, self-service version of Red Sky Ops Red Sky Ops is an AIOps platform that automatically configures and optimizes containerized applications. By making it … continue reading
Aqua Security has raised $30 million in a new Series D round of funding, bringing its total funding to over $130 million. This funding round was led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from existing investors Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TLV Partners. “We are seeing customers continuing their move towards cloud-native technologies, often accelerating … continue reading
Earlier this week, Sysdig announced the launch of a cloud-scale Prometheus monitoring tool. Along with that new tool, the company has also announced the launch of PromCat, which is short for Prometheus Catalog. PromCat is a curated repository of Prometheus exporters, dashboards, and alerts. According to Sysdig, there are hundreds of Prometheus exporters that collect … continue reading
Sysdig announced cloud monitoring at scale with full Prometheus compatibility that addresses the issues that are holding teams back from the organization-wide adoption of Prometheus monitoring. The company also introduced support for creating dashboards, alerts, and metric analytics based on PromQL, the query language for Prometheus. Sysdig said that because monitoring Kubernetes and microservices can … continue reading
Sysdig has announced that it has secured $70 million in Series E funding. The company plans on using this new funding to extend its market presence and leadership in order to enable companies to “confidently run cloud-native workloads in production.” The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures … continue reading
Earlier this week Sysdig announced that its open-source container runtime security tool Falco would be joining the CNCF Incubator. The project first entered the CNCF as a Sandbox Project in October 2018. To-date, it is the only runtime security technology at the CNCF. According to Sysdig, the tool detects and alerts when there is unexpected … continue reading
Druva has announced an expansion to its platform that will help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. The update includes support for Slack and Microsoft Teams, new advanced backup, recovery and global policy capabilities for AWS workloads, and integrations with ServiceNow, Splunk, and Okta. According to Druva, these latest updates will ensure greater control … continue reading
Container usage has grown in scale, complexity, and density year over year, according to Sysdig’s third annual Container Usage Report. The increase in container adoption highlights the need for companies to understand how to securely operate containers as well as how to prepare for expected growth. According to Sysdig, 50% of containers live for less … continue reading
Sysdig Secure 2.4 is now available. This new update adds runtime profiling and new interfaces. According to the company, these new features are designed to improve the experience of creating security policies. “Sysdig Secure 2.4 expands on its previous runtime security and vulnerability management capabilities with the addition of runtime profiling and the new policy … continue reading
The CNCF wants to bring awareness to runtime security and make it easier for the community to build secure cloud-native applications. In order to achieve this goal, it has accepted Sysdig’s open-source runtime container security project, Falco, into the Cloud Native Sandbox. According to Sysdig, Falco was designed to give DevSecOps visibility into how containers … continue reading