Report: Releasing microservices into production a challenge for many organizations
Despite having become mainstream over the past few years, many organizations still struggle with actually releasing microservices into production. According to the State of Cloud-Native Release Orchestration 2021 report from Vamp, 72% of respondents use Kubernetes and 81% use microservices in production, but nearly 9 in 10 respondents report challenges and issues when releasing microservices …
ITOps Times news digest: Commvault expands BaaS portfolio, Quantum launches new hybrid storage arrays, InterVision announces cloud cost savings tool
Commvault has announced an expansion to its backup as a service (BaaS) portfolio. New additions include enhanced SaaS application protection, the addition of Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup, and the addition HyperScale X as an edge offering for Metallic. “As we continue our global rollout of Metallic, we’re finding more and more …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keylime
Keylime is an open-source project that developers and users can leverage to bootstrap trust for remote machines, provision encrypted payloads, and run system integrity monitoring. Key features include remote boot attestation, Linux IMA runtime integrity monitoring, application bootstrapping, secure payload provisioning, revocation framework, and certificate authority integration. The mission of the project is to make …
OpsRamp rolls out two new solutions for WFH IT management
OpsRamp is aiming to make network management easier for remote companies. It has announced two new products to do so: OpsRamp NetFlow and OpsRamp Unified Communications monitoring. “As work-from-home became the new normal in 2020, use of digital communications and collaboration systems exploded,” said Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management at OpsRamp. “IT Operations …
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ITOps Times news digest: Delphix updates, HCP Vault beta, and Platform9 updates
Delphix has announced updates to its ransomware protection solution. New capabilities include maximum coverage for high change rates, data immutability, open box data testing and validation, and air gap data isolation. “You can drive a truck through the holes in legacy ransomware solutions,” said Jedidiah Yueh, CEO of Delphix. “Once-a-day backups are insufficient. Companies can’t …
ITOps Times news digest: IIC RFP Toolkit, Fugue’s new container runtime security capabilities, and Atos and IBM’s partnership
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced it is releasing its IIC RFP Toolkit, which is a collection of tools and best practices for guiding IIoT project managements through the process of procuring components and resources that are required in an end-to-end IIoT solution. The IIC RFP Toolkit is comprised of six modules: project planning, …
IBM acquires Taos for hybrid cloud consulting
IBM has entered in an agreement to acquire cloud professional and managed services company Taos. According to the company, this will help advance its migration and cloud transformation efforts. “Taos adds the deep expertise, public cloud partnerships and innovative solutions needed to drive growth and adoption of IBM’s hybrid cloud platform throughout the Americas,” said …
Report: Container security is shifting left
A recent survey has revealed that container security is shifting left with 74% of organizations scanning container images during the build process. Unfortunately, the report also revealed that the majority of container images are overly permissive. According to Sysdig’s fourth annual Sysdig Container Security and Usage report, 58% of containers analyzed were running as a …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Otomi
Earlier this week, Red Kubes open sourced a community version of its container platform Otomi. Otomi is a platform that can be run on top of Kubernetes. According to the company, Otomi was originally developed using a developer-first philosophy with the 12-factor app methodology. Red Kubes’ goal was to create a management platform for Kubernetes …
ITOps Times news digest: Malwarebytes integrations, Entrust acquires HyTrust, and xMatters completes SOC 2 examination
Malwarebytes has announced new integrations in its OneView management dashboard. The new additions will help to streamline security operations for MSPs, the company explained. “Security is an increasing concern for MSPs, particularly as their clients have become more targeted by cybercriminals in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mike LaPeters, vice president of worldwide …
What Incident Management teaches us about the pandemic
In early 2020, before we realized that the pandemic was surging under our noses and that we were mere months away from global lockdowns, I was sitting in a bar off of Brannan Street in San Francisco talking about building my new company, Kintaba, around modern incident management. At the time, this seemed to be …
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Runtimes, Intel and Cybereason partnership, and Red Kubes open sources Otomi
Red Hat has added new features to Red Hat Runtimes, which is a set of tools for building and maintaining cloud-native applications. New features include expanded support for Quarkus, JBoss EAP XP 2.0, support for IBM Power Systems, a developer preview of OpenShift Serverless Functions, and more. In addition, this version brings support for Spring …
Red Hat to acquire Kubernetes and container security company StackRox
Red Hat has entered into an agreement to acquire StackRox for its container and Kubernetes-native security capabilities. According to Red Hat, bringing StackRox to its container application platform OpenShift will help users build, deploy and securely run apps across the hybrid cloud from a single platform. In addition, Red Hat plans to use StackRox to …
Martin Schroeter to lead IBM’s managed infrastructure company NewCo
A few months after announcing its decision to spin off a new managed infrastructure company, IBM has revealed the new CEO for that company. IBM’s NewCo will be headed by Martin Schroeter, as of January 15th. Previously, Schroeter served as IBM’s senior vice president of global markets, where he oversaw global sales, client relationships and …
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The Speed of Change: How Fast Are You?
How fast is your IT? You need speed and adaptability to adjust as big changes in the global economy and our daily lives keep coming. Disruption is the status quo, and the “new normal” is not yet defined. Are you prepared for what’s next? What are IT organizations saying about it all? This spring, 2,200 …
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Establish an incident management process like an IT Operations Pro
Incident Management is an IT service management process intended to restore “normal” service operation as quickly as possible, while minimizing any adverse impact on business operations or the end user. To be successful, IT teams must promptly and effectively deal with all Incidents reported by users. So why is Incident Management important? The answer is …
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2020 State of Incident Management Report
See how over 500 organizations run their incident management process. Each company has its own version of an incident management process, and some are clearly better than others. Learn how world-class IT Operations and DevOps teams resolve incidents and see how your own internal process compares. …
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The Gorilla Guide to Why Modern IT Requires Modern Disaster Recovery
Protecting your data center is your top priority. But, you’re continually faced with the rise of new external threats. That means you need new tools to respond effectively and quickly. Read the Gorilla Guide to Why Modern IT Requires Modern Disaster Recovery, to see how you can improve your backup and disaster recovery strategy. We review the …
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The Complete Ransomware Recovery Guide
Using best practices for ransomware prevention, network intrusion, encryption, and anti-phishing tools, plus keeping all endpoints up to date with the latest security patches will put you in a good position to recover your data without paying a ransom. Download this guide to learn: Proactive ransomware prevention What to do when your systems are infected …
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Observability: A Guide for Buyers
You’ve likely heard the term observability being passed around for the past few years, and you might have assumed that it is just another marketing buzzword for monitoring. And you wouldn’t be alone in that thinking. Some experts would say that “observability”, “AIOPs” and “application Performance Monitoring (APM)” are just terms used to distinguish between …
ITOps Times Newswire
- Longhorn extends Kubernetes-native storage capabilities to support edge deployments
- BackupAssist Classic v11 Launches to Help Ensure Cybercrime Resilience
- StorageOS announces availability of StorageOS version 2.2 performance on Red Hat Marketplace
- Scale Computing offers Acronis SCS backup and recovery solutions on HC3 for broad range of US public sector environments
- D2 Emerge to launch industry’s first value stream event targeting development teams
- Nutanix Brings Invisible Infrastructure to Big Data and Analytics
- Wind River Extends Embedded Security and Linux Leadership with Acquisition of Star Lab
- Ahead, Data Blue, and Sovereign Systems merge
- HCC Embedded Introduces SafeexFAT File System Solution for Failsafe Data Storage
- Catchpoint expands NS1 deployment with redundant DNS
- Instana announces support for On-Prem version of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Exabeam raises $75 million to accelerate worldwide displacement of legacy SIEM vendors
