ITOps Times news digest: Barracuda launches Firewall Insights and VMware acquires Avi Networks
Barracuda has announced the launch of Firewall Insights, an analytics platform for firewalls. Firewall Insights takes in data from firewalls or wide area networks and analyzes it. It then provides actionable insights for the entire network. The solution can be added to any CloudGen Firewall deployment option, which includes hardware appliances, virtual appliances, and cloud …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: IBM’s Razee
IBM is opening up a tool that will help developers deploy and manage applications in Kubernetes clusters. IBM’s new open-source tool, Razee, provides insights into those Kubernetes cluster deployments. According to IBM, Razee addresses one of the major challenges of managing multiple Kubernetes workloads, which is the process of generating inventory and scripts that will …
ITOps Times news digest: Tibco’s new cloud functionality, Acronis integrates with ConnectWise Control, and Numerify’s Change Risk Prediction solution
Software company Tibco has announced new functionality for organizations working in hybrid or multicloud environments. New solutions include Tibco Cloud Integration – Connect, Tibco Cloud Mashery, Tibco Cloud Nimbus, Tibco Cloud Spotfire Web Client, and Tibco Cloud Starters Toolkit. “We empower enterprises with hybrid and multi-cloud approaches, using a fundamental cloud-native architecture that enables the …
premium 5 guiding principles to follow for modernizing the data center network
New technologies like 5G, AI, and IoT, are driving companies to reconsider the way their data centers are structured. But from the smallest companies all the way up to the largest cloud providers, we’ve seen that service uptime remains a challenge for even the largest and most sophisticated companies – some citing that an outage …
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ITOps Times news digest: Akamai’s Edge Cloud, SignalFx’ funding, and Wipro partners with Moogsoft
Akamai has announced the release of Edge Cloud, which will streamline and secure the delivery of data to IoT devices. The solution was designed to meet the needs of organizations who are deploying billions of IoT endpoints, as well as to boost the power of in-app messaging, Akamai explained. “Akamai is investing to extend its …
Azure IoT Hub adds integration with over-the-air update manager
Microsoft announced a new integration with update manager Mender. Mender provides over-the-air (OTA) update management, while Azure IoT Hub provides capabilities for developers to build device management into IoT devices. The new integration will provide a single location for managing device registration. According to Mender, a challenge organizations often run into is building a firmware …
ITOps Times news digest: Cloudify 4.6, Pulumi Crosswalk, and Edgewise Networks’ one-click microsegmentation
Network orchestration provider Cloudify has announced the release of version 4.6. According to the company, this version is built around providing a module service composition. New features include scheduled and resumable workflows, an upgraded OpenStack plugin, a community plug-in contribution guide, and performance improvements. Pulumi Crosswalk now available Pulumi has announced a new framework that …
Report: Organizations are struggling to keep up with events in SIEM systems
Organizations seem to be struggling with keeping up with the events in their security incident and event management (SIEM) systems. According to Exabeam’s State of the SOC report, only five percent of respondents believe that they see 100 percent of events in their SIEM system. But that statistic should be taken with a grain of …
ITOps Times news digest: OneLogin’s new security program, Domo and Zendesk partnership, and SSH.COM’s PrivX solution now free
OneLogin has announced a new security program to help organizations gain insights into their business applications. The new program includes Cloud Security Risk Workshops and Cloud Risk Assessment. According to OneLogin, these new tools will “help businesses measure and contextualize their cloud security needs.” “Assessments and Workshops are powerful tools that help companies quickly identify …
ITOps Times news digest: IBM Cloud Virtual Private Cloud, Google Cloud responds to outage, and Postmates open sources Configurable Horizontal Pod Autoscaler
IBM has announced the general release of its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). According to IBM, VPC allows customers to “manage virtual machine-based compute, storage, and networking resources in a private, secure space you define.” VPC provides the logic isolation and security offered by private clouds, while also providing the availability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability of the …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Instaclustr’s anomaly detection experiment
Detecting anomalies is crucial to the security of critical data, and Instaclustr just launched a new open-source project that will make it easier to detect those anomalies. The project was built out of a desire to see how far it could scale data-stack technologies like Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka. It can be challenging to …
Kubernetes celebrates its fifth birthday, reflecting on its massive growth
The popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes is celebrating its fifth birthday today. It was first introduced by Google in June 2014, and it didn’t take long for others to see the potential of the tool. By August 2014, major companies such as Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Docker, and CoreOS had joined the Kubernetes community. “Kubernetes …
ITOps Times Blog: Edge computing will require massive changes in cloud infrastructure
Edge computing is still in its early days, but it will require massive changes in infrastructure before it will take off. Edge is another one of those terms that has many different definitions, especially at this early stage. But the most basic textbook definition of edge is one that encompasses the set of latency-sensitive applications, …
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift 4, Google Cloud’s compute pricing updates, and BMC’s new analytics and automation capabilities
Red Hat has announced the general release of OpenShift 4. In this release, Red Hat rearchitected the way that OpenShift gets installed, updated, and managed. It also introduced advanced day 2 management and automation. According to Red Hat, this release is all about bringing Kubernetes to the core of OpenShift. “As transformational as our open …
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ntop and InfluxData take the next step in monitoring containerized application environments with eBPF
RECORDED EVENT Monitoring solutions often operate in silos, following the traditional IT organizational structure: infrastructure, network and applications teams. Further, such solutions sometimes operate without the necessary granular visibility into modern containerized environments. Although knowing what is occurring in each aspect of the IT environment is valuable, being able to correlate data from different layers …
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Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration: Expectation vs. Reality
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 10:00 am PT PostgreSQL is catching up to Oracle as more and more enterprises migrate to the most popular open source database. But migration is a lengthy and challenging process, and our 2019 Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration survey showed that there are some surprises along the way; some …
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Large organizations often struggle to manage their complex, mission-critical workloads. To handle it, organizations turn to tools, but their dependencies and integrations can create a brittle environment. Without clear visibility into those workloads, and without predictive capabilities to identify potential problems before they occur, organizations face inefficient and underutilized workloads, or entire systems crashing. Read …
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A DevOps Approach to Workload Automation
At its core, the DevOps process mandates and supports agility and efficiency at each stage of the software development life cycle and across the entire software supply chain. Production workload processing is an essential component of the larger supply chain, which means any inefficiencies in Workload Automation need to be addressed as part of a …
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Detecting account takeovers and defending your users
Account Takeover (ATO) attacks are one of the fastest growing and prevalent problems for most organizations, but today’s attacks aren’t focused on attacking just servers; they also focus on attacking your users. It’s no longer good enough to place a traditional web application firewall in place and hope that it stops the attacks against your web …
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Application security for modern Ops teams
You know the drill: XSS, SQLi, command execution. Application security is stuck in 2003. That’s not just rhetoric; the same recommendations that the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) delivered as the OWASP Top Ten in 2003 has largely remained unchanged over the last 14 years. Along with that, the same defensive practices of input sanitization and …
ITOps Times Newswire
- 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
- Pure Storage acquires Compuverde for file capabilities
- Vertiv licenses patents for Switch’s modular data center technologies
- Synopsys launches USB4 Subsystem Verification Solution, VIP, and test suite for high-performance USB architecture
- ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus extends self-service password management to Linux
- Pepperdata announces Big Data Cloud Migration Cost Assessment
- LightStep introduces new tracing solution for DevOps
