ITOps Times news digest: Mirantis acquires Kontena, Humio Bucket Storage, and 1E Tachyon 5.0
Following their acquisition of Docker last year, Mirantis has now acquired Kontena. Kontena is a tool that allows teams to deploy, run, monitor, and operate Kubernetes cluster and workloads. It is an open-source tool that is currently in use by a number of companies. According to Mirantis, this acquisition should accelerate its roadmap in multi-cluster … continue reading
Red Hat expands partner offerings to foster hybrid cloud innovation
Red Hat is hoping to drive innovation of open-source solutions for hybrid cloud by expanding its partner offerings. Red Hat’s Partner Connect provides opportunities such as certifications, tools, and alignment opportunities to “automate, accelerate, and streamline modern application development.” The company will expand both its certification and support services. It believes this will make companies … continue reading
Intel announces new hardware and software to unlock full potential of 5G
Intel is on a mission to drive the transformation of network infrastructure that is necessary to unlock the full potential of 5G. The company has announced a number of new software and hardware in order to achieve this. “As the industry makes the transition to 5G, we continue to see network infrastructure as the most … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeEdge
KubeEdge brings container orchestration and device management to the edge. Built on Kubernetes, it provides infrastructure support for networking, deployment, and synchronization between the cloud and edge. The project has a number advantages, according to the team. For one, the edge allows large volumes of data to be secured and processed locally. “With business logic … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM solution, TeamViewer’s free IoT solution, and Infoblox and Nutanix announce partnership
Sumo Logic has announced the release of a new Cloud SIEM Enterprise offering. According to Sumo Logic, this solution will include a number of capabilities that will ease the burden placed on SOC personnel. Highlights of the solution include improved analyst productivity, focused and guided workflows, 360-degree visibility, and elastic scalability. “We believe organizations will … continue reading
SolarWinds improves application troubleshooting in latest AppOptics release
IT management software provider SolarWinds has announced updates to its infrastructure and APM solution, AppOptics. With this latest update, AppOptics will make “application troubleshooting simpler, faster, and more accurate.” This release introduces service- and trace-level root causes analysis, helping to lower the complexity of APM and lower the barrier to entry. This new functionality will … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NEW Veeam Availability Suite v10, OpenSSH 8.2, and Snowflake on Google Cloud
The latest version of Veeam’s backup and recovery solution is now available. NEW Veeam Availability Suite v10 features data protection for Networked Attached Storage (NAS), Multi-VM Instant Recovery for automating disaster recovery, and enhanced ransomware protection. “v10 is the biggest release in the history of Veeam, and the enhancements we’ve made take data protection to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: GXF
LF Energy, a branch of the Linux Foundation focused on accelerating decarbonization goals of the energy and electricity sectors, has announced the release of a new open-source project. Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF) is an IoT platform that enables grid operators to “securely collect data and monitor, control, and manage smart devices on the grid.” The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Nutanix Karbon 2.0, SaltStack Enterprise 6.2, and InsightEdge on Google Cloud Platform
Nutanix Karbon 2.0 is now available. Karbon is used to simplify the configuration, deployment, and life cycle management of Kubernetes clusters. The new version features a number of upgrades, including integration with Nutanix Prism, support for air-gapped environments, and push-button Kubernetes upgrades. More information is available here. New versions of SaltStack Enterprise, SaltStack Protect, and … continue reading
Report finds companies turn to automation to support digital transformation efforts
As more companies accelerate their digital transformations, many are turning to automation and shifting the responsibility for app services onto IT teams, according to F5’s 2020 State of Application Services Report. According to F5, there are four key areas being automated: app infrastructure, app services, network, and security. Thirty-seven percent of respondents claimed that they … continue reading
Transitioning to SRE
Over the years, there have been a lot of new methodologies that aim to help an organization manage their technology more efficiently, whether that means making programmers more efficient or the operators who manage a company’s technology infrastructure. DevOps, which sought to bring developers and operators together, is one such example of this, and one … continue reading
Report: IT transformation efforts blamed for outages/brownouts
LogicMonitor believes that the move to the cloud comes at a price. Gartner predicts that 40% of workloads will be in the public cloud by 2025, but according to LogicMonitor’s IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Report, there are unknown costs, such as underestimating costs and a shortage of IT professionals. Many companies also believe that … continue reading
