AIOps is a story of higher dimensions
Could you ever imagine we’d better learn the lessons of a 19th Century English schoolmaster for managing modern digital infrastructures? In 1884, the English schoolmaster, theologian and priest Edwin Abbott published a work of scientific fantasy entitled Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Flatland is a satirical two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. The book …
Gartner predicts top I&O trends for 2022
The IT world is changing faster than it ever has before, and IT professionals and decision-makers need to stay on top of these changes in order to respond accordingly for their organizations. In a talk at Gartner’s IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference, Jeffrey Hewitt, VP analyst at Gartner, shared predictions on the top …
Adapting I&O to an ever-changing world
Your typical symphony orchestra has highly skilled musicians playing unique instruments, led by a conductor who meshes the talent, horns, winds and percussion into beautiful music. And, because of the skills of the musicians, the group can go from playing a Tchaikovsky overture to a “Looney Tunes” theme without — literally — missing a beat. …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio
Istio is an open source service mesh that simplifies observability, traffic management, security, and policy. It extends Kubernetes to establish a programmable, application-aware network using the Envoy service proxy. Istio 1.12 was recently launched with an improved experience with WebAssembly that allows users to dynamically load custom-built extensions at runtime through an API. The latest …
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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 introduces automation mesh
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 is now generally available. New additions and more flexible automation architectures will enable customers to onboard more easily. Automation mesh is a new addition that replaces isolated nodes that were featured in version 1.2. Now, the automation control plane and execution plane are fully decoupled. Users can run automation …
ITOps Times news digest: Micro Focus release Operations Bridge – SaaS; Datto’s Autotask PSA on Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace; and Attivo Networks joins SentinelOne’s Singularity XDR Marketplace
Micro Focus has announced the release of Operations Bridge – SaaS, which is a new offering that will provide SaaS support for the company’s AIOps platform. The company believes the new offering will provide organizations with complete observability, faster issue resolution, greater efficiency through automation, and the ability to transform data into insights. “To develop …
Five common questions about observability
Observability has emerged as a key capability that successful organizations need in order to deliver improved digital services to customers, employees and partners. It is especially relevant for today’s IT Ops environments where flexibility has given way to complexity for highly distributed and hybrid environments. ITOps Times recently asked Sudip Datta, head of AIOps & …
Weave GitOps Enterprise reaches general availability
Weaveworks, the company who first coined the term “GitOps,” has announced the general availability of Weave GitOps Enterprise. Weave GitOps Enterprise is a commercial offering that builds on the open source GitOps Core project. It adds features that will be beneficial to companies with large Kubernetes deployments. “Weave GitOps Enterprise is the first enterprise GitOps …
AWS re:Invent: AWS EBS Snapshots Archive and Recycle Bin; AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform; AWS IoT Greengrass now integrates with AWS Systems Manager
AWS’ annual re:Invent conference kicked off yesterday in Las Vegas, NE, and already the company has made a number of announcements. In addition, several other companies have announced updates at the event. Here are a few highlights of the news so far: Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive and Recycle Bin announced Amazon EBS is a block …
ITOps Times news digest: Kublr’s Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes validation; Snyk Security Intelligence integration; and Datadobi’s Google Cloud Storage validation
Kubernetes management company Kublr has announced that it has gained validation as a Microsoft Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes provider. This means that Kublr customers will be able to integrate their Azure cloud footprints with their data center and multi-cloud capacity, which will enable them to manage applications across multiple locations. Kublr already supports several Microsoft Azure …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Goldpinger
Goldpinger is a networking monitoring tool for Kubernetes that works by making calls between its instances. It runs as a DaemonSet on Kubernetes, which is used to manage groups of replicated pods on Kubernetes. It produces Prometheus metrics that can be scraped, visualised and alerted on. “We built Goldpinger to troubleshoot, visualise and alert on …
ITOps news digest: AWS announces the availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances, Red Hat bolters partnerships, IOTech partners with Google Cloud
The general availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads. Like M6i and C6i instances, these new R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, building blocks that can offload a lot of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated, delivering high performance, high availability, and highly secure cloud instances. The new …
Kyndryl and VMware expand their modernization-focused partnership
Kyndryl and VMware today announced that they will expand their existing app modernization and multicloud services partnership. According to the companies, the primary goal of the expanded partnership is to accelerate IT and business reinvention for customers through the integration of the two companies’ offerings, which includes Kyndryl’s design, build, and managed services. “We’re excited …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Trivy
Trivy is an open-source project developed by Aqua Security that scans for vulnerabilities and configuration issues in container images, file systems, and Git repositories. It detects vulnerabilities of operating system packages, such as Alpine, RHEL, and CentOS, and language-specific packages, such as Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, and more. It can also scan Infrastructure as Code …
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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 …
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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 …
ITOps Times Newswire
- 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
- 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
