A view of the future of I&O
No area of IT has been impacted more than infrastructure and operations in the past 20 years. Gartner analysts made that statement, and spoke about how I&O can change in the next five years to go from a “serve and protect” defensive posture to one that drives business innovation and value, at the analysis firm’s …
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Project Calico
Project Calico is an open-source project for securing networks in cloud native environments. It is designed to be simple, scalable, and secure. The project was created and is maintained by Tigera. According to the team, traditional SDNs tend to be hard to deploy and troubleshoot due to their complexity. Calico removed that complexity by providing …
ITOps Times news digest: TeamViewer Patch Management, Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge, and Ampertiy’s Sandboxes for IT
Remote connectivity solution provider TeamViewer is introducing Patch Management to its monitoring and asset management solution. Patch Management is designed to provide vulnerability detection, patch deployment, and TeamViewer integrations. Key features include Windows and third-party application updates, an intuitive interface and automation and custom policies. As part of the monitoring and asset management solution, benefits …
LogicMonitor releases AIOps early warning system
LogicMonitor has announced that its new AIOps early warning system is now available. This system is an addition to the LM Intelligence AIOps solution. “LM Intelligence is our AIOps platform, and how we look at it is the platform gives a way to build intelligent algorithms on top of the data streams that are coming …
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AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer detects unintended resource access
AWS announced the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. The new solution is designed to analyze access control policies attached to resources and determines which resources can be accessed publicly or from other accounts. It continuously monitors all policies for Amazon Simple Storage Service …
Logz.io launches cloud observability platform
Logz.io has announced a new Cloud Observability Platform that will allow engineers to reduce time to resolution, increase productivity, and integrate security into DevOps workflows. The solution is powered by Kibana and Grafana, and is a fully-managed solution for developers. It provides a single pane of glass for monitoring, troubleshooting, and securing distributed workloads on …
ITOps Times news digest: Signal Sciences’ security solution for Istio, PagerDuty for Cloud Operations, and Snow Software acquires Embotics
Signal Sciences has announced a security solution for the service mesh Istio. The company had already offered a web application firewall (WAF) and runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration with Istio and Envoy. This new integration with Istio will provide organizations with the ability to gain visibility into east-west and north-south traffic. They will also be …
Standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development now available
Microsoft has announced new updates and features for its IoT tool offerings, including the ability to deploy the Event Grid module and a standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge. Event Grid on IoT Edge brings the power and flexibility of Azure Event Grid to the edge for all pub/sub and event driven scenarios, the company …
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Tungsten Fabric
This week’s open-source project of the week is a network virtualization platform for the cloud. Tungsten Fabric is an open-source scalable and multi cloud networking platform designed to provide a single point of control for networking and security observability and analytics. The project was originally hosted by Juniper Networks and known as OpenContrail. Juniper open …
SolarWinds announces SolarWinds AppOptics Dev Edition for APM
SolarWinds announced the release of its free AppOptics Dev Edition, a free infrastructure and application performance management (APM) solution, It is designed to be a “scaled-back version well-suited for development environments” that offers the same features as the full version. “The need to manage custom business applications is on the rise, placing new pressures on …
ITOps news digest: Cloudflare’s Flan Scan, OneLogin’s support for AWS Session Tags, and OCF-over-Thread
Cloudflare is open sourcing its in-house lightweight network vulnerability scanner Flan Scan. According to the company, Flan Scan was created after unsuccessful attempts with industry standard scanners. “A little over a year ago, we were paying a big vendor for their scanner until we realized it was one of our highest security costs and many …
Problems and solutions of monitoring your Kubernetes Operators
For me, the most important thing monitoring can provide is the ability to see what is happening inside your clusters–be it the state of the workload, or the status of the applications–is significant and should not be a day two concern. Good information on your clusters allows you to react quickly to misconfigured deployed applications, …
Datadog releases security monitoring for real-time threat detection
Datadog announced its Security Monitoring solution, which enables real-time threat detection across the entire stack, and facilitates collaboration between security, developer and operation teams. “We built Security Monitoring to break down silos between security professionals and their DevOps peers, and provide real-time threat detection in modern hybrid cloud environments,” said Marc Tremsal, director of product …
Google launches Bare Metal Solution to accelerate cloud adoption
Google has announced a new solution to help with the migration of applications, helping facilitate cloud adoption. The company explained the new Bare Metal Solution contains all of the infrastructure that is needed to run specialized workloads. It also features a low-latency and highly resilient interconnect and connects with all Google Cloud services. It uses …
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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 …
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Breakthroughs and Best Practices in Disaster Recovery
Wednesday, August 21,2019 at 1:00 pm E.T. Disaster Recovery (DR) has never been more important. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, and floods are on the rise. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the total cost of last year’s natural disasters was approximately $91 billion. FEMA has stated, “the need for forward-leaning …
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Monitoring your network with time-series data
Today’s applications are architectured to work on hybrid, componentized, containerized, distributed, mobile/sensor environments, and so do the networks that sustain all these applications together. Complexity, traffic volume, intolerance to performance degradation and inefficiency will only increase, demanding real-time and holistic monitoring. …
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Container Security: More moving parts mean more complexity
Securing containerized applications is quite a bit more challenging than securing traditional monolithic applications. The use of open-source components in code, the microservices within containers, and the containers themselves, all need to be secure to ensure vulnerabilities do not make their way into the deployed application. This guide to container security looks at the issue …
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Application Performance Management: A Guide for Buyers
Changes in software architecture and transition to the cloud have forced the way organizations monitor their applications to change as well. Because of increased complexity of applications — code written in-house, couple with services brought in via APIs, scaling in the cloud, much more data being processed — APM has become more important than ever. …
ITOps Times Newswire
- 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
- 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
