Rancher Labs to expand Run Kubernetes Everywhere strategy
Rancher Labs has just announced that it has secured $40 million in Series D funding. This funding brings the company’s total funding to data up to $95 million. Rancher will use the money to continue expanding its Run Kubernetes Everywhere strategy. It will continue to innovate in key areas such as heterogeneous cluster federation, fleet … continue reading
Elastic releases ECK 1.0 to simplify day 2 Kubernetes operations
Elastic has announced that its Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) is moving out of beta. It was first announced in May 2019, with the goal of providing an official way for orchestrating Elasticsearch on Kubernetes and providing a SaaS-like experience for Elastic products on Kubernetes. Other steps Elastic has taken to respond to the massive … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Sidekick
This week’s Open Source Project of the Week can be useful in preventing bottlenecks in systems. The project, Sidekick, is a sidecar load-balancer. System admins can attach Sidekick to client application processes. According to the project, by attaching tiny load balancers to those processes, admins can eliminate load balancer bottlenecks. It also offers DNS failover … continue reading
ServiceNow introduces AI and analytics capabilities in latest release of Now Platform
ServiceNow has announced the Orlando release of its Now Platform. This latest release introduces Now Intelligence, which is a set of AI and analytics capabilities. “People should be able to work the way they want to, not the way that most software today dictates they have to,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, chief product officer of … continue reading
The Linux Foundation takes on open-source hardware disaster relief project
Almost two years ago, IBM called on companies to develop solutions to help deal with the aftermath of natural disasters. The winner of that first Call for Code event was Project Owl, an IoT solution that helps connect first responders and victims following such an event. Now, the Linux Foundation has announced that it will … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Stateless releases Luxon Dynamic Network Programmability, DisruptOps’ Series A, and DriveScale supports OpenStack
Network connectivity company Stateless has announced the release of Luxon Dynamic Network Programmability, which is a P4-programmable switch ASIC. This will be included as part of its software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform. Specific features of Luxon include horizontally scalable clusters, IPsec load balancing, tenant-level elasticity, VXLAN parsing, fine-grained QoS, and future proofing with new interface protocols … continue reading
HPE Container Platform now generally available
HPE has announced that the HPE Container Platform is now generally available. The company first announced this solution in November. According to HPE, the HPE Container Platform will support cloud-native and non-cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, running on bare-metal or virtual machines, in data centers, in public clouds, or at the edge. The main advantages of … continue reading
Cyber insurance: A crucial part of any cybersecurity strategy
The threat landscape has been expanding rapidly, and companies are under immense pressure to respond. A lot of companies are investing in trying to prevent attacks, but as evidenced by the massive influx of data breaches and cyberattacks, it’s impossible for a company to predict 100% of possible attacks. That’s where an emerging market is … continue reading
Business continuity planning during COVID-19
Every IT organization needs to have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place. That’s not a new concept, but with the global emergence of a new strain of coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, now is a good time to revisit those plans and ensure that your company can continue operating even in the worst-case scenario. … continue reading
Report: Cloud-native projects now the norm in production
Cloud-native deployments are now the norm. According to CNCF’s community survey, cloud-native projects are increasingly being deployed in production. The CNCF community survey was conducted in September and October 2019, and the company received 1,337 responses. The goal of the community survey is to understand where and how cloud native technologies are being adopted, the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: SentryOne updates, Mission Cloud Foundation, and AirDroid Business updates
SentryOne has announced new editions of SQL Sentry that provide monitoring support for SQL Server or related systems on physical, hybrid, or cloud environments. There are three new editions being released: SQL Sentry Premium, SQL Sentry Standard, and SQL Sentry Essentials. They will all be available on April 1, 2020. “Our customers are managing complex … continue reading
ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week: Bat
This week’s highlighted open-source project is bat. Bat is a tool that IT practitioners can use to test, debug, and interact with HTTP servers. It is a Go implementation of a CLI, and was inspired by the project Httpie. According to the project’s GitHub page, its key highlights include its expressive and intuitive syntax, built-in … continue reading
