COVID-19: Surviving remote work
For years, the view towards remote work has been shifting, especially in the tech industry where remote work is achievable. There are a number of concrete benefits to remote work, according to a 2019 survey from OpenVPN, including higher productivity, less time spent on commuting, improved employee retention, fewer overhead costs, and access to a … continue reading
Cockroach Labs follows up on 2020 Cloud Report with configuration recommendations
In December, Cockroach Labs released its 2020 Cloud Report, which provided benchmarks for each of the major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. According to the report, GCP had caught up to AWS in benchmarks, where previously AWS outperformed them by 40% the previous year. The company also found that each cloud vendor had an … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Park Place’s PPTechMobile release, Kofax’ new integration, and Quantum Machines’ latest funding
Park Place has announced a new mobile app that will let IT professionals remotely access maintenance events in their data center and other IT infrastructure. PPTechMobile will have a number of key features from the Park Place customer portal, including the ability to access contracted assets, monitor escalation process, and submit, edit and view incidents. … continue reading
UPDATE: Vendors step in to help newly remote workforces
UPDATED: To help ease the burden on companies as they go remote, a number of companies are releasing new services, or making current services free for a period of time. Here are a few highlights: Atlassian will make its remote-focused software available for free. Companies will now be able to get cloud-based versions of Jira … continue reading
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
