ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: gVisor
Google has developed a sandbox for container runtimes called gVisor that is focused on security, efficiency, and ease of use. “Containers are not a sandbox. While containers have revolutionized how we develop, package, and deploy applications, running untrusted or potentially malicious code without additional isolation is not a good idea. The efficiency and performance gains … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s new portfolio, InsightFinder funding, and TensorIoT’s new competency achievement
Dell has launched a new line of products and software in its Latitude, XPS, and display portfolios. These new devices will leverage AI, 5G, and innovative design to make it easier for users to innovate, collaborate, and accomplish more, Dell explained. In addition to new hardware products like the Latitude 9000 series, Dell is introducing … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nebula
Last month, Slack open-sourced its network overlay tool, Nebula. Nebula allows you to connect computers anywhere in the world in a performant, simple, and secure way. According to Slack, Nebula incorporates several existing concepts, such as encryption, security groups, certificates, and tunneling. The company believes that what sets the solution apart from other solutions is … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Amazon FXs for Lustre beta, Citrix vulnerability discovered, and Falco security audit results
Amazon has announced a beta release of Amazon FSx for Lustre CSI driver on Amazon EKS. Amazon FSx for Lustre is a fully-managed and optimized file system for workloads like machine learning, high performance computing, video processing, financial modeling, electronic design automation, and analytics. According to Amazon, this driver will make it easier to configure … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: F5 Networks acquires Shape, AWS Global Accelerator supports Amazon CloudWatch metrics, and Palo Alto Networks acquires Aporeto
F5 Networks has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Shape Security for $1 billion. Shape provides security services across a wide range of industries, including banks, airlines, retailers, and government agencies. It protects companies from credential stuffing attacks, which is when attackers use stolen passwords from other services to take over … continue reading
ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week: Tern
This week’s highlighted open-source project originated at VMware. Tern is a tool that looks through container images and finds software packages and image metadata. It provides admins with a better understanding of the bill of materials for a container. This allows them to make more well-informed decisions about container-based infrastructure, integration, and deployment strategies. Earlier … continue reading
IIC launches new program to connect businesses with IIoT industry experts
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced a new pilot program designed to help organizations achieve digital transformation. The program, Industry Connect Service (ICS), connects organizations with experts who understand business challenges and can help them develop and deploy IIoT solutions. Users can submit their issues and requirements to the IIC. IIC members can them … continue reading
I2Coalition launches VPN Trust Initiative
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) added enhanced security and privacy to online communications. In an effort to drive awareness and trust in VPNs, the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) has announced that it is launching the VPN Trust Initiative. The VPN Trust Initiative is an industry-led and member-driven consortium of industry leaders that is focused on building … continue reading
Google Cloud introduces new load balancing features
Google Cloud is introducing two new features to its Layer-4 Internal Load Balancing (L4 ILB) system that aims to provide greater availability, scale, and ease of management. L4 ILB is intended to make workloads that need to be private and can’t access the Internet more resilient and scalable. The two new features are: ILB global … continue reading
Google launches Transfer Service for on-premises data
Google is launching a beta for a new solution designed to help organizations move their data to the cloud. Its new Transfer Service for on-premises data facilitates large-scale, online data transfers. “There’s an enormous amount of data in the world today, and your company likely operates its own storage infrastructure to store this data. Running … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Keptn
Earlier this week, Dynatrace announced the release of a new open-source project: Keptn. Keptn is a pluggable control plane that automates the processes and tools needed for continuous delivery and automated operations. Dynatrace hopes that the project will help advance the industry toward autonomous clouds. “Keptn is an outcome of a belief and program we … continue reading
Linux Foundation launches DENT to create an operating system for edge networking
The Linux Foundation has just announced that it is launching a new project called DENT, which will help facilitate the creation of an operating system for edge networking. Edge is continuing to gain traction in the industry. In the State of the Edge’s latest report, it predicted that $700 billion will be spent on edge … continue reading
