NVIDIA to acquire Arm for $40 billion
NVIDIA has announced that it is acquiring Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion. Arm is a manufacturer of processors. According to NVIDIA, this acquisition will bring together its AI computing platform with Arm’s ecosystem, creating a computing company for the age of artificial intelligence. It will enable them to accelerate innovation and expand into larger … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dragonfly
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Dragonfly, which is a P2P image and file distribution system. The goal of this project is to improve the efficiency of file transferring and maximize usage of network bandwidth. According to the project’s documentation, container technologies can make DevOps easier in a number of ways, but one of the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackRox raises $26.5 million, Sectigo’s PKI Risk Assessments, and Simplicity Studio 5
StackRox has raised $26.5 million in funding. This round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. The company will use the new funds to meet growing demand driven by Kubernetes and DevSecOps, and to deliver on its vision of providing organizations with the tools … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing, Synopsys and Nestwave partnership, and Cyberinc and XeneX partnership
Google Cloud is expanding its Confidential Computing portfolio with two new additions: Confidential GKE Node and new capabilities for Confidential VMs. Confidential GKE allows customers to configure GKE clusters to deploy node pools with Confidential VM capabilities. This feature will be available in beta as of the GKE 1.18 release. Confidential VMs use memory encryption … continue reading
Cloudtamer.io launches Cloud Governance Principles training course on Cybrary
Cloud governance company cloudtamer.io has announced it is partnering with IT training platform Cybrary. Together, the two companies are launching a Cloud Governance Principles training course. The new course is designed for security leaders, financial leaders, and IT and cloud practitioners, cloudtamer.io explained. The new course will cover topics such as cloud governance definitions, the … continue reading
TeamViewer expands IoT offering with predictive maintenance
Remote connectivity solution TeamViewer has announced it is expanding its IoT offering with AI-enabled predictive maintenance. Previously, TeamViewer users working with IoT could do tasks like reading sensors, setting alarms, and connecting to a range of devices. With the added AI capabilities, they will now be able to perform predictive maintenance. According to TeamViewer, in … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AWS Bottlerocket
AWS has launched a new open-source operating system called AWS Bottlerocket that is designed specifically for running containers. The OS is based on Linux. AWS Bottlerocket includes just the software needed for running containers, as well as a transactional update mechanism. According to AWS, this allows users to use container orchestration to run OS updates … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: GigaSpaces 15.5, SentryOne premium, and ServiceNow and Cisco partner on contact tracing app
GigaSpaces has announced the release of GigaSpaces v15.5. This version has three main focus areas: realizing the value of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, perfecting microservices, and simplifying management and operations. New features include self-balancing capabilities, one-click microservices deployment, schema evolution, object analysis, Index Usage, and one-click connectors to Oracle and Postgres on premise and to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: DH2i expands Azure support, Kasten announces Kubernetes Backup and Recovery capabilities, and VMware announces 5G Telco Cloud Platform
DH2i has announced that DxEnterprise now supports Microsoft Azure shared disks and Azure Disk Storage enhancements. This will help customers eliminate complexity and achieve high availability for SQL Server deployments in Azure. This added support also helps reduce costs and planned downtime, the company explained. “With DxEnterprise, organizations get all of the advantages of intelligent, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Anthos updates, Fastly acquires Signal Sciences, and Cisco acquires BabbleLabs
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.19 is now available
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.19 is the second Kubernetes release of the year. According to the team, the gap between Kubernetes 1.18 and 1.19 was the largest of any two Kubernetes releases, at 20 weeks. “The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, George Floyd … continue reading
UnifyID releases authentication solution based on a person’s gait
UnifyID has announced the release of a new biometric authentication solution, GaitAuth. GaitAuth can authenticate users based on the way they walk. According to the company, the solution only needs to capture a few steps from a person to perform the authentication. UnifyID believes that a person’s gait is very unique, as it is a … continue reading
