IDC’s top 10 IT predictions for 2020
We are in an age of massive technological innovation, and as such, the IT landscape is constantly and dramatically changing every year. As we close out 2019, IT analyst firm IDC has released its IT predictions for 2020 and the years that follow. “As more than half the global economy turns digital by 2023, a … continue reading
BigPanda announces major expansion to AIOps platform
BigPanda has announced a major expansion to its AIOps platform. The platform will now enable IT operations, network operations centers (NOC), and DevOps teams to quickly investigate and resolve issues. New features include root cause changes and a real-time topology mesh. The Root Cause Changes feature ingests change data and then uses machine learning to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs project joins CNCF, Moogsoft Express released, and Kontena Lens 2.3
Rancher Labs has announced that the CNCF has accepted its Longhorn project into the CNCF Sandbox. Longhorn is a container storage solution that helps teams manage stateful workloads in Kubernetes. Longhorn is currently on version 0.6.2 and its key capabilities include enterprise-grade distributed block storage, volume snapshots, built-in backup and restore, live upgrades that don’t … continue reading
Sysdig: Half of containers live for less than five minutes
Container usage has grown in scale, complexity, and density year over year, according to Sysdig’s third annual Container Usage Report. The increase in container adoption highlights the need for companies to understand how to securely operate containers as well as how to prepare for expected growth. According to Sysdig, 50% of containers live for less … continue reading
Report: What is holding back digital transformation?
Traditional IT operations challenges, like conflicts between Dev and Ops, siloed teams, and reactive incident management, are roadblocks to success in a digital world. In a new report called “Adapt or Perish: The OpsRamp Report on Modern IT Operation in the Digital Age,” OpsRamp set out to determine what factors prevent IT teams from embracing … continue reading
CloudEvents moves to the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced that the open source specification CloudEvents has reached version 1.0. The specification has been approved by the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee to move into the CNCF Incubator. CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common form. It was first accepted to the CNCF as a … continue reading
Microsoft greatly expands capabilities for creating and deploying IoT solutions
Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for companies to create and deploy IoT solutions. The company announced new capabilities that will help them fulfill that goal. Microsoft will help customers embrace IoT as a strategy for driving better business outcomes, improving safety by predicting and preventing equipment failures, optimizing smart building for space utilization … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Mantis
In 2014, Netflix developed a platform that would help them get better operational insights in their increasingly complex environment. Today, Mantis helps Netflix engineers better understand the behavior of their applications, which in turn helps them provide a better user experience. Mantis is a platform on which real time stream processing applications can be built. … continue reading
Grafana Labs raises $24 million for composable observability platform
Grafana Labs just announced the completion of a Series A funding round of $24 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Lead Edge Capital. Grafana Labs is known for its open-source projects Grafana and Loki. Grafana allows teams to query, visualize, and alert on metrics and logs. Loki is a … continue reading
Stateless awarded patent for stateless network functionality
Networking company Stateless has announced that it has been awarded a patent (No 10,425,348) for its stateless network functionality. This technology allows for new levels of automation that simplify how businesses can access remote IT services. It also helps them more effectively use computing resources. The patented technology was created by the company’s co-founders, Eric … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NVIDIA and Microsoft partnership, FogHorn’s low-code OT platform, and HPE joins the IoT Community
NVIDIA and Microsoft have announced a new technology collaboration that is focused on intelligent edge computing. Together the companies will work to help industries better manage and derive insights from data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure, and other environments, the companies explained. As part of the partnership, NVIDIA has … continue reading
ONUG Fall 2019: NetBeez’ monitoring solution and Gluware Automation v3.6
The yearly gathering of IT leaders, ONUG Fall 2019, kicked off yesterday in New York City. At the event, IT leaders c0me together to share best practices and insights. The event lasts two days and is stuffed with training workshops, IT executive roundtables, and keynotes. Several companies are also announcing new products or showcasing their … continue reading
