ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Copa
Copa, short for Copacetic, is an open-source project for vulnerability management. It can automatically apply the necessary patches to a container image based on the results of vulnerability scans. This allows containers to be patched quickly without waiting on a full rebuild upstream, so that they can be redeployed as fast as possible. The maintainers … continue reading
BackBox launches programmatic Network Configuration Management capabilities
The network automation company BackBox has added a set of automated Network Configuration Management (NCM) features to its Network Automation Platform. By adding automation to NCM, tasks can be triggered by parts of the DevOps workflow, such as initiating a backup before an update is performed. This contrasts with traditional NCM which typically is just … continue reading
Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud launches to help companies keep up with data sovereignty regulations
Vultr is attempting to make it easier for companies to manage data sovereignty with the launch of its new product, Vultr Sovereign Cloud and Private Cloud. This new offering ensures that data remains within national borders and is adhering to local regulations. According to the company, much of the existing cloud workloads out there are … continue reading
Unleashing innovation via Composable Cloud: Customizing AI tech stacks for inference at the edge
Edge operations dominate the CTO agenda today, and as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning grow increasingly important across business operations, the CIO, CAIO, CDO, and other leaders are joining the conversation, leaning into edge operations to deliver AI at scale. However, the traditional edge operations designed to support distributed web apps can’t handle the … continue reading
Tufin releases new tool for automating network access requests
The network policy automation company Tufin has announced a new AI assistant designed to make it easier for IT operations teams to get easy answers about the state of the network. TufinMate can be used by end users to ask if there is a current outage, cutting down the time help desk personnel need to … continue reading
Cloudflare acquires Baselime to bolster its serverless observability capabilities
Cloudflare has announced that it has acquired Baselime, which is a cloud-native observability platform for developers. The main benefit of the acquisition is to solve the challenges of performing observability on serverless applications. “Two million developers building on Cloudflare trust us to help scale their apps globally, but can still struggle to understand the behavior … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Foundry BOSH
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open-source solution for provisioning and deploying software to virtual machines (VMs). It also includes capabilities for monitoring, failure recovery, and software updating. The tool was initially designed to deploy to Cloud Foundry PaaS, but it can also be deployed to almost any other software as well, the maintainers claim. It … continue reading
Lacework launches new capabilities for securing cloud environments
The security company Lacework has announced the addition of new capabilities to its platform to help IT and security teams more easily secure their cloud environments. The first new addition is Lacework Explorer, which is designed to provide better visibility into potential threats. It provides a visualization of the relationships between cloud resources, which helps … continue reading
Fastly Bot Management solution released to help cut down on fraud
Fastly has announced a new bot management solution to help companies fight back against bots at the edge. Fastly Bot Management was designed to help cut down on fraud, DDoS attacks, account takeovers, and other online abuse. It automatically identifies and stops bots that are attempting to engage in fraudulent activity, which could ultimately result … continue reading
AWS expands Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring to EC2 instances
AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring. Amazon GuardDuty is a monitoring and threat detection solution for AWS data sources, and the company has already introduced Runtime Monitoring for other AWS services, including EKS, ECS, and AWS Fargate. Now the capability is being expanded to EC2 instances. According to AWS, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Xline
Xline is an open-source management system for metadata stored in organizations with multiple data centers. According to the project maintainers, one of the big challenges related to multi-data center architectures is maintaining data consistency and high performance. Xline was created to help solve that problem by allowing distributed storage and management. “This project aims to … continue reading
AppViewX partners with Fortanix on machine identity management, supply chain security
The automated machine identity management provider AppViewX has announced a new partnership with the data security company Fortanix. Together, the companies hope to solve two main challenges that organizations face today. The first is managing the increase of machine identities, which they will address with a secure certificate lifecycle and key management solution. The second … continue reading
Gluware 5.3 adds new improvements for managing networks with third-party components
The network automation company Gluware has announced the latest release of its platform, Gluware 5.3. Gluware 5.3 adds support for third-party solutions in OS Manager, which is a feature of Gluware used to automate OS updates. According to the company, adding this extra support for third-party solutions will help companies with multiple vendors in their … continue reading
BackBox Network Vulnerability Manager adds ability to mark vulnerabilities as irrelevant or mitigated
The network automation platform BackBox is announcing a new feature in its Network Vulnerability Manager (NVM) that it hopes will make it easier for companies to manage and prioritize vulnerabilities. They will now be able to mark specific CVEs that they believe to be irrelevant or that were already mitigated as “mitigated” in the app. … continue reading
