It’s time to embrace Monitoring-as-Code
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has revolutionized the management and provisioning of everything from local virtual machines to exotic AWS services. It is time for Monitoring-as-Code (MaC) to do the same in the application performance monitoring (APM) and synthetic monitoring fields — and the good news is that everyone stands to benefit. Provisioning monitoring checks by hand is …
Dell and Wind River team up on telecom cloud infrastructure
Dell Technologies has teamed up with Wind River to develop a new telecom cloud infrastructure solution, Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks. The new offering will help communication service providers (CSPs) reduce cloud-native network complexity. According to Dell, clouds for mobile networks are complex and expensive because they need to address distributed geographic areas, have strict SLAs, …
CNCF brings Istio in as Incubating project
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced that its Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept the service mesh Istio into the foundation as an Incubating project. Istio provides a way to secure, connect and monitor services in cloud-native applications. It offers features like zero-trust networking, policy enforcement, traffic management, load balancing, and …
Synopsys developers new streaming fabric for silicon data
Security company Synopsys has announced the release of a new streaming fabric to reduce test times, minimize power usage, and make silicon data more accessible. The new technology features an on-chip network that transports silicon data to and from design blocks and multi-die systems. According to Synopsys, ensuring the health and uptime of silicon requires …
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IBM acquires digital product services firm Dialexa
IBM announced plans to acquire Dialexa, a digital product services firm to deepen IBM’s product engineering expertise and to provide end-to-end digital transformation services. “Digital product engineering represents the tip of the spear for competitive advantage,” said Scott Harper, CEO and co-founder at Dialexa. “IBM and Dialexa’s shared vision for delivering industry-defining digital products could …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Arlon
Arlon is a new open-source project that defines an architecture that utilizes GitOps, declarative APIs, and Kubernetes to manage infrastructure and workloads. The project was created by cloud native company Platform9. The company says that Arlon is the first open-source project to automate and integrate infrastructure and workload life cycle management. Arlon combines ClusterAPI, a …
Cloudflare releases updated distributed object storage solution
Cloudflare R2 Storage, the distributed object storage that eliminates egress costs, is now generally available. The new version gives developers an S3-compatible API for seamless migration and an integration with Cloudflare Workers, a highly scalable serverless computing platform. “Egress fees are nothing but a tax on developers, stifling innovation and creativity. We are redefining the …
ServiceNow Tokyo release unlocks greater value from tech investments
ServiceNow has released the latest version of its Now platform. According to the company, the main theme of this release, Now Platform Tokyo, is to allow companies to unlock greater value from their tech investments during a time of economic uncertainty. Several new features in this release help assist with that goal of unlocking value. …
SPIFFE and SPIRE projects graduate from CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that SPIFFE and SPIRE are now graduated projects. Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) provides a secure identity to workloads in modern production environments and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is the code that implements the SPIFFE specification on a wide variety of platforms. SPIRE exposes the …
Dispelling the misconceptions around observability
Observability is a term that’s being used to describe just about anything to do with monitoring, but it’s not as simple as just monitoring the performance of an application or server. Observability can provide you with so much more information that traditional monitoring could. In order to dispel some of the common misconceptions about observability, …
CAST AI launches new Kubernetes security analysis tool
The Kubernetes SaaS company CAST AI has announced a new security analysis tool for Kubernetes called Cloud Security Insights. It offers Kubernetes configuration checks in order to ensure clusters are configured in accordance with best practices. Users will be provided information on these configuration checks and resources to improve configuration. The tool also scans for …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Custodian
Cloud Custodian is an open source governance as code tool that companies can use to manage and automate enforcement of cloud security, compliance, operations, and cost optimization policies through code. It was created at Capital One in 2016 by Kapil Thangavel and then contributed to the CNCF Sandbox in August 2020. Earlier this week the …
D2iQ updates its Kubernetes platform
Kubernetes company D2iQ has announced the latest updates to its Kubernetes platform, DKP. DKP 2.3 introduces enhancements for AWS customers that will make it easier to manage AWS EKS clusters. It now offers a comprehensive ecosystem of Kubernetes platform applications so that platform teams can spend more of their focus on creating good developer experiences. …
Dell and Red Hat expand partnership on simplifying containerized infrastructure
Dell and Red Hat have announced they are expanding their existing partnership that focuses on bringing customers solutions to simplify deployment and management of containerized infrastructure in multicloud environments. With this expansion comes new joint features, such as Dell APEX Containers for Red Hat OpenShift and Dell Validated Platform for Red Hat OpenShift. APEX Containers …
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Time to Modernize Your IT Operations: What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There.
LIVE Thursday October 27, 2022 @ 2:00PM ET | 11:00 AM PT | Digital transformation has made it imperative for IT leaders to find effective ways to modernize their legacy systems and service delivery. Moving beyond legacy, patchwork point tools and leveraging a modern, unified IT management platform will decrease the cost and complexity of …
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The Power of Observability and AIOps: Busting Myths and Sharing Realities
AVAILABLE NOW Observability and AIOps are most likely something you have heard about. But would you know how to differentiate them, explain the pros and cons of each, how they fit together (or not), understand the key benefits and challenges, and detect hype about what these can achieve when you see it? The global market …
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How to evolve your monitoring – a blueprint for success
AVAILABLE NOW Digital transformation, for some people, is just another buzzword repeated by their organization wanting to migrate to the cloud without any concrete plan of implementation. We’re not going to lie to you, digital transformation isn’t simple and it isn’t easy, but with a foolproof implementation plan, you can start to feel the tangible …
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Safely Delegate your Cloud Operations with Self-Service Automation
AVAILABLE NOW Running Operations is not an easy job, especially these days. Ops teams have to ensure excellent user experiences, resolve incidents quickly and help developers stay productive. Yet at the same time, there is also the need to maintain systems security and keep downtime to a minimum. While advances in cloud computing have helped …
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Accelerate the Adoption of “You Build it, You Own it” with Self-Service Operations
AVAILABLE NOW Many engineering and operations teams would like to move to a Service Ownership: “You build it, you own it” operating model. However, as with many ancillary objectives driving DevOps across an organization, this is easier said than done. Often, it’s because teams lack the human-to-technology mechanisms which allow for a culture of service …
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Enterprise Observability: Behind the Term
June 29, 2021, 1PM ET | 10AM PT With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-native applications, enterprise observability is critical to delivering high-quality services. In this webinar we will look behind the term to talk about what enterprise observability brings to operations and DevOps teams. Attendees also will learn about vital components of Instana’s Enterprise …
ITOps Times Newswire
- TidalScale announces availability of software-defined server technology in AWS marketplace
- Zebrium launches Root Cause as a Service enabling popular observability tools to automatically find the root cause of software problems and outages
- ServiceNow introduces Procurement Service Management on industry-leading Now Platform
- Komodor raises $42 million Series B to build a continuous reliability platform for Kubernetes
- SpecterOps BloodHound Enterprise Now Supports Attack Path Management for Microsoft Azure
- Rakuten Symphony agrees to acquire leading US-based cloud technology company Robin.io to deliver highly integrated telco-cloud for mobile
- DSM announces acquisition of managed IT services provider Cipher Integrations
- Auvik Networks secures $250 million growth investment
- Grafana Labs brings modern open source load testing to observability with acquisition of k6
- Executives at elevated risk for cyber threats on social media
- Longhorn extends Kubernetes-native storage capabilities to support edge deployments
- BackupAssist Classic v11 Launches to Help Ensure Cybercrime Resilience
