ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubesploit
CyberArk recently announced a new open-source project, Kubesploit, for testing Kubernetes environments. The goal of the project is to assist pen testers with performing comprehensive security assessments that mimic real-world attack scenarios, CyberArk explained. “To help protect Kubernetes clusters from attacks, we need to face the technology and the organizations being targeted. Yet, most of …
ITOps Times news digest: Aiden launches, HighByte Intelligence Hub version 1.4, VMware’s container workload protection
Aiden emerged from stealth today with the release of its DevOps for Windows solution, which will enable companies to automate their endpoint management processes. According to the company, its solutions will help bridge the gap between security and IT and enable teams to patch and deploy software, firmware, and drivers to Windows devices. “IT teams …
Report: digital transformation initiatives are causing increased adoption of SRE in ITOps
A new study found that the increased need for process automation and SREs has been fueled by companies’ increase in digital transformation initiatives as well as remote and hybrid work policies. Industries have seen a 90% increase in customer-affecting issues and 68% of businesses reported an increased cost of downtime since the pandemic began. Now, …
Puppet launches cloud-native workflow automation platform: Relay
Puppet’s cloud-native workflow automation solution Relay is moving out of its public beta and into general availability this week. Relay is designed for CloudOps teams building and sharing automated workflows. With Relay, they can now share workflows in minutes and ensure hybrid cloud environments are secure and compliant, the company explained. According to Puppet, managing …
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ITOps Times news digest: Gluware’s intelligent network automation capabilities, Threat Stack and Liquid Web partnership, and Ensono acquires Amido
Gluware has announced new intelligent network automation capabilities for Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco Meraki. New capabilities include the ability to securely automate complex deployments, so customers will now be able to automate networks without significant time or resources to build infrastructure. “As more enterprises move to the public cloud, they find that legacy processes and …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kubestr
Kasten by Veeam announced a new community project to help DevOps and PlatformOps optimize Kubernetes storage resources. Kubestr is an open-source project designed to evaluate Kubernetes cluster storage configurations and performance. While the introduction of Container Storage Interface (CSI) has enabled more cloud-native storage offerings, the company explained there is an overwhelming amount of options …
ITOps Times news digest: Consul-Terraform-Sync, Platform9’s new managed Kubernetes offering, and Ericsson Open Lab
HashiCorp has announced the release of Consul-Terraform-Sync. The solution is part of the company’s larger Network Infrastructure Automation solution. IT operators can define a set of tasks that Consul-Terraform-Sync then executes whenever a new service is registered or deregistered with Consul. Example tasks include applying firewall policies and updating load balancer member pools. The solution …
VMware Cloud platform launches to give more flexibility over modernization efforts
VMware has announced the release of its new VMware Cloud platform. According to the company, this new offering will enable developers to build and deploy to any cloud, and provide IT with capabilities for modernizing infrastructure and operations. “We are on the cusp of the next evolution of cloud and apps. Architectures are becoming distributed …
Cisco Live: Cisco Plus, improved endpoint protection, and more
Cisco announced a number of new updates at its Cisco Live! event, which started on Monday. Here are a few highlights of new solutions, such as Cisco Plus and Duo passwordless authentication: Cisco Plus offers as-a-service models With Cisco Plus, customers will be able to pick and choose the solutions that best suit their needs. …
ITOps Times news digest: Sysdig’s Cloud Security Posture Management, iSite’s Planned Maintenance module, and Accenture to acquire Cygni
Sysdig has announced the release of continuous cloud security posture management for AWS, which automatically discovers cloud services and flags misconfigurations and compliance violations. Cloud security posture management builds on Cloud Custodian, which is a cloud infrastructure security tool. The company also announced support for cloud threat detection for AWS and GCP. Customers will be …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Red-Shadow
Cloud security provider Lightspin developed a new open-source scanner Red-Shadow that reports when user permissions are loosely defined, which opens up an attack path for hackers. Lightspin released the scanner after it announced the results of its research that discovered a gap between AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user group policies that attackers can …
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift on AWS, TruSTAR and ServiceNow integration, and Elastic Observability 7.2
Red Hat has announced OpenShift is now available on AWS. Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) will make it easier for OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. Key benefits include the ability to use familiar APIs and tools, pay-as-you-go pricing, and the elimination of the need to manage two vendor …
Report: Fusion of security and network planning is accelerating
The fusion of security and network planning has been accelerating over the past year, according to Aryaka’s recently released 2021 Global State of the WAN report. According to the report, almost a third of companies surveyed are already deploying secure access service edge (SASE) architectures. This close integration of networks and security will become even …
ITOps Times news digest: New Chef releases, Jumio funding, and DataStax partners with IBM
Progress has announced its first releases of Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and Chef Infra Client since acquiring the company in October. The latest version of EAS include Chef Infra Compliance Phase, which allows users to automatically perform compliance audits during Chef Infra Client runs; Chef Infras State Management Dashboards, which allow users to view …
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- 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
- 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)
