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
Eclipse Foundation launches Sparkplug Working Group
The Eclipse Foundation has announced it is launching the Sparkplug Working Group. This group will help drive the evolution and adoption of the Eclipse Sparkplug Specification, which enables the creation of open and interoperable IIoT solutions using the messaging protocol MQTT. Founding members of the group include Chevron, Canary Labs, Cirrus Link Solutions, HiveMQ, Inductive … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Astro
Fairwinds just open-sourced its Astro project, which provides an API for understanding and managing Datadog monitors. Astro’s GitHub page states that it is an “operator that emits Datadog monitors based on Kubernetes states. The operator responds to changes of resources in your kubernetes cluster and will manage Datadog monitors based on the configured state.” Related … continue reading
OpsRamp raises $37.5 million to grow its AIOps platform
AIOps company OpsRamp has announced that it has closed a $37.5 million funding round. The company explained it will use this new funding to scale its discovery, monitoring, and automation platform. “The business opportunity for OpsRamp is tremendous,” said Varma Kunaparaju, co-founder and CEO of OpsRamp. “Modernizing legacy IT operations management, technology debt, and supporting … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NGINX Controller 3.0, ServiceNow acquires Passage AI, and Nuweba announces seed funding
F5 Networks has announced the release of NGINX Controller 3.0. NGINX Controller is a tool used for load balancing, API management, analytics, and service mesh. Version 3.0 is the first major release of the tool since F5 acquired NGINX. “This is our first major product introduction since we joined forces with F5 in May, and … continue reading
IoT Community and IEEE announce partnership to advance IIoT
The IoT Community and IEEE are partnering to accelerate digital transformation of IIoT and speed the development of IoT in general. “Harnessing the power of the Internet of Things is essential for the successful development of digital transformation across enterprise and industrial sectors,” said Heinrich Stüttgen, Chair of the IEEE IoT Initiative. “IEEE looks forward … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project(s) of the Week: Heist, Umbra, and Idem
Last week, SaltStack announced the release of three new open-source modules for use with Salt Plug-in Oriented Programming (POP). The three new modules are called Heist, Umbra, and Idem. Heist is a plugin system that allows for the development and distribution of agents that enable users to open an SSH tunnel, send a portable agent … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackRox’s Anthos support, Microsoft and Genesys expand partnership, and Microsoft completes internal investigation into database misconfiguration
StackRox has announced that the latest version of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform offers support for Google Anthos, which is a solution for modernizing, building, and running cloud applications. As a result, Anthos users will be able to use StackRox to manage their security and compliance. “Anthos makes it easier for customers to leverage hybrid … continue reading
Sysdig secures $70 million for cloud-native workloads
Sysdig has announced that it has secured $70 million in Series E funding. The company plans on using this new funding to extend its market presence and leadership in order to enable companies to “confidently run cloud-native workloads in production.” The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures … continue reading
