What to expect in Kubernetes 1.1
The latest version of Kubernetes is expected to be released this week with improvements to maturity, scalability, and flexibility. Kubernetes 1.1 will add key networking features, open two major features from SIG-API Machinery and SIG-Node for beta testing, and continue to enhance storage features that have been crucial parts of the last two releases. With … continue reading
HashiCorp extends its service mesh capabilities with a new feature in HashiCorp Consul
Cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp has extended its service mesh capabilities with a major update for HashiCorp Consul. The new capability, Consul Connect, allows users to efficiently secure service-to-service communications in hybrid environments. According to the company, modern application architectures often include public clouds, microservices, and container schedulers, and these architectures often require a service … continue reading
HPE reveals solution for capitalizing on data created at the edge
HPE announced plans to invest $4 billion in Intelligent Edge technologies over the next four years. It will invest in research and development, working to advance and innovate new products, services, and consumption models across domains such as AI, machine learning, automation, and edge computing. Gartner predicts that by 2022, 75 percent of data produced … continue reading
HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud is now available
HPE announced the release of a new cloud management service at its HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas today. HPE GreenLake Hybrid Cloud is built on HPE best practices for deploying public and on-premises cloud and designed to help users consume the exact cloud resources necessary. According to the company, it manages relevant workloads by … continue reading
Red Hat releases Process Automation Manager 7 with cloud-native process automation capabilities
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7, the company’s the next generation business process management offering. It is designed for organizations to streamline, automate, measure, and continuously improve their business operations. “Digital transformation can place new demands on both business and IT to deliver greater efficiency and agility throughout … continue reading
ONAP Beijing has been released
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has announced the availability of its second software release, ONAP Beijing. This release aims to make ONAP deployment easier for network operators. “The Beijing release ushers in the next phase of ONAP,” said Mazin Gilbert, ONAP technical steering committee chair, and vice president of advanced technology at AT&T … continue reading
Operators make the lifecycle management of containers simpler
Last month, Red Hat launched the Operator Framework for managing Kubernetes applications. The original idea of operators was introduced by CoreOS about a year and a half ago, said Reza Shafii, vice president of products at CoreOS, which was recently acquired by Red Hat. CoreOS had been working on the idea of automated operations, starting … continue reading
PagerDuty aims to reduce the IT noise with Event Intelligence
PagerDuty has announced the release of PagerDuty Event Intelligence. PagerDuty Event Intelligence analyzes incoming digital signals and human response patterns, then uses automation to identify issues quickly. This allows teams to take action on critical software issues and opportunities. According to the company, the solution is designed for teams that are responsible for software, infrastructure, … continue reading
CoreOS launches Operator Metering
After open sourcing the Operator Framework last month, CoreOS has announced the release of Operator Metering. Operator Metering is a component of the Operator Framework designed to provide a way to gain insights on the usage and costs it takes to run and manage Operators. “Today, management teams want to understand more concretely where budget … continue reading
OpsRamp 5.0 improves visibility into multi-cloud environments
OpsRamp has announced a major update to its SaaS platform. OpsRamp 5.0 is designed to provide greater visibility for multi-cloud environments and includes a new AIOps inference engine. According to the company, this release will enable enterprise IT teams to optimize cloud costs, speed up incident response, leverage data-driven insights for IT operations and embrace … continue reading
Report: Security Operations Centers are understaffed
A large amount of Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are understaffed, a newly released report finds. The 2018 State of the SOC Report by Exabeam revealed 55 percent of SOC professionals feel that their SOC is correctly staffed, 45 percent believe that their SOC is understaffed and 63 percent believe that they could use two to 10 … continue reading
BMC Helix brings AI to ITSM
BMC has introduced the BMC Helix Cognitive Service Management (CSM), which aims to integrate AI and machine learning into ITSM. According to the company, this new offering will transform the service experience for end users, agents, and developers. BMC explained the solution is designed to reduce the time and effort of upgrades, derives operational efficiencies, and … continue reading
