Google Cloud Next: Customer to Community, Confidential VMs, and BigQuery Omni
Google kicked off its reimagined Google Cloud Next even this week. The event is now entirely online, and will be going on for the next nine weeks, until September 8. The event features over 200 sessions and ways to connect with Google engineers, including 1:1 time. “As we’re all navigating through unprecedented times, bringing together …
Citrix and Microsoft announce new partnership to provide consistent access to applications from wherever
Citrix and Microsoft announced that they are joining forces to help organizations accelerate the move to the cloud along with the adoption of digital workspaces and virtual desktops. The agreement stems from the widespread move to permanent remote work models and the companies’ goal to rethink how organizations can adapt to new remote ways of …
Two-thirds of IT decision makers plan on increasing investments in automation due to COVID-19
Nearly two-thirds of US IT decision makers plan to increase their investments in automation technology over the next year as a result of COVID-19, according to a recent study by Opinion Matters and Inference Solutions. About a quarter of organizations will increase their investments by 10% or higher. “Cloud-based, self-managed platforms that give businesses more …
ITOps Times news digest: McAfee ESM Cloud, xMatters’ incident analytics, and RiskSense updates
McAfee is launching a new security and information event management (SIEM) system called McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) Cloud. This new solution supports security team activities like detection, incident response, and threat hunting. “Today’s SecOps teams face a multitude of issues, including the need to take on new efforts such as digital transformation, the convergence …
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Freshworks acquires IT orchestration company Flint
Freshworks completed its key acquisition with Flint to bring advanced automation and cloud management capabilities for IT teams in the remote work era. With the acquisition, Freshworks can now leverage intelligent automations to provision IT resources, rapidly remediate business-critical incidents and automate workloads using out-of-the-box connectors to popular service providers including Microsoft, VMware, Amazon, Google, …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tsunami
Google is open-sourcing its network security scanning engine in the hopes of helping organizations protect data. Tsunami is designed to detect high severity vulnerabilities with high confidence. “When an attacker begins to exploit security vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations, such as weak passwords, an organization needs to react quickly in order to protect potentially vulnerable assets. …
Operator Framework joins CNCF as incubation-level project
The CNCF has announced that it will be bringing on the Operator Framework as an incubation-level project. The Operator Framework is a toolkit for managing Kubernetes Operators, which are extensions of Kubernetes that make it easier to package, deploy, and manage Kubernetes applications. The Operator Framework, first developed in 2016 by CoreOS which is now …
ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA funding, Oracle’s fully-managed cloud region, and Aryaka and 8×8’s partnership
LogDNA has announced it closed a Series C funding round totaling $25 million, bringing the company’s funding to date to $60 million. The round was led by Emergence Capital with participation from Initialized Capital, Providence Equity, TI Platform Management, Radianx Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, and Trend Forward Capital. The company also announced that it …
IBM to acquire RPA company WDG Automation
IBM has announced that it will be acquiring Brazilian robotic process automation (RPA) company WDG Automation. IBM plans to use WDG Automation’s RPA capabilities to bolster its own AI-enabled offerings. According to IBM, COVID-19 has placed a lot of pressure on organizations to drastically transform their operations. RPA can help with that digital transformation by …
CNCF accepts Contour as an incubation-level project
Contour, an ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for Envoy, was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation-level hosted project. “One of the most critical needs in running workloads at scale with Kubernetes is efficient and smooth traffic ingress management at the Layer 7 level. Getting an application …
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Zoom, Exabeam and Armis, and Avaya’s subscription program
ServiceNow and Zoom have entered into a partnership to improve work-from-home experiences. Zoom will deploy ServiceNow’s Now Platform, which includes new AIOps capabilities. In addition, Zoom will expand its implementation of ServiceNow’s Customer Service Management (CSM), which it deployed in April. “Zoom has enabled employees across industries around the world to stay connected, and it’s …
VMware announces intent to acquire Blue Medora true visibility suite
VMware announced its intent to acquire the True Visibility Suite team and technology from Blue Medora to further VMware’s self-driving operations capabilities. The acquisition would expand VMware’s existing operations management solution, VMware vRealize Operations, with Blue Medora’s integration solutions for vRealize Operations which are available via management packs. The integrations enable vRealize Operations to provide …
Algorithmia bolsters MLOps platform with security enhancements and improved developer experience
Algorithmia has announced a number of updates to its Enterprise product. Algorithmia is a machine learning (ML) operations and management company. The updates include security enhancements, support for the latest AWS and Azure GPU hardware, local debugging improvements, and integration with PyCharm. According to Algorithmia, machine learning has the potential for the greatest impact on …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: ODL
This week’s Open-Source Project of the Week is OpenDaylight (ODL). ODL is a Linux Foundation project that offers a modular way of customizing and automating networks. According to the project’s website, ODL was inspired by the SDN movement. It was designed with its main focus being on network programmability. Some use cases for the project …
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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 …
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Why Automated AIOps Is Better Than AIOps- and How to Get There
RECORDED EVENT Early monitoring efforts relied on specialists to scrutinize production environments for issues that might hurt performance. But as IT grew in size and complexity, humans struggled to keep up. Growing out of that struggle, AIOps enabled systems to independently spot anomalies and issue alerts. Adding automation takes AIOps to a whole new level—introducing …
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Log Management: A Guide for Buyers
Over the last several years, organizations have had to deal with exponentially more data than ever before. A good log management solution can help your organization connect the dots between your data, helping you uncover insights you didn’t even know you were looking for. Logs can help you understand what is going on within your …
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Pay the price to mitigate ransomware attacks
Ransomware attacks against organizations are on the rise, and one study puts the cost of downtime at $8 billion! But your applications and data don’t have to be held hostage. When an attack is discovered, the goal is to minimize further infection and restore to a safe state as quickly as possible (low RTO). Read this …
ITOps Times Newswire
- 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
- A Cloud Guru raises $33 million in funding
- SolarWinds adds password management and privileged client knowledge management to its IT security portfolio
- ManageEngine debuts conversational virtual support agent for its ITSM solution
- Bitdefender adds new threat intelligence services
