Report: A majority of companies cannot fill the cloud-native skills gap
As companies transition to a cloud-native model, many are struggling to find talent for technical roles. According to OpsRamp’s recent Cloud Skills Survey, this skills gap crisis is inhibiting innovation, impacting productivity, and affecting revenue growth. Of those that responded to the survey, 94 percent stated that they struggled to find candidates with the right … continue reading
HPE Discover Madrid 2018: HPE Datacenter Care Services, HPE Compostable Cloud, and HPE Edgeline
At HPE Discover Madrid 2018 this week, HPE made several new announcements for new solutions relating to cloud and the edge. Highlights include: HPE Datacenter Care Services expanded to meet modern needs HPE introduced new operational capabilities to HPE Datacenter Care. The new features are designed to “transform and optimize customers’ IT environments from the … continue reading
Datadog Synthetics provides proactive error detection
Datadog is introducing new capabilities to provide proactive error detection. Today, it launched Datadog Synthetics, which monitors application and API availability by simulating user traffic. Normally, when issues are detected by synthetic monitoring systems, engineers need to use multiple tools to troubleshoot the issue, which results in prolonged outages. According to Datadog, Synthetics is built … continue reading
Oracle to acquire SD-WAN provider Talari Networks
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) provider Talari Networks. According to Oracle, Talari’s Failsafe technology adds greater reliability and predictability to SD-WAN, while still maintaining security. “Talari is the original innovator of Failsafe SD-WANs that deliver both MPLS-class high availability and high QoE (Quality of Experience) predictable application … continue reading
Boomi World 18: Dell Boomi’s iPaaS roadmap, iPaaS portfolio updates, and new partnership program
Dell Boomi made a number of new updates and improvements to its Boomi platform at the Boomi World conference in Las Vegas this week. The company laid out its vision for reinventing the iPaaS industry, added new capabilities to Boomi, and launched a new partner program. In the next few months, the company will work … continue reading
Intel announces two new products for its Xeon processor line
Intel is giving IT administrators more options to choose from with the announcement of two new products in its Xeon processor line. Cascade Lake is a new Intel Xeon Scalable processor that was designed for high-performance computing, AI, and infrastructure-as-a-service workloads, the company explained. According to the company, Cascade Lake furthers Intel’s goal of delivering … continue reading
Bleedingbit vulnerabilities affect 70 percent of the enterprise network
Researchers at the security company Armis have identified two chip-level vulnerabilities, dubbed Bleedingbit, in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips manufactured by Texas Instruments. These chips are used in Wi-Fi devices made by Cisco, Meraki, and Aruba. According to Armis, those three companies account for almost 70 percent of the total enterprise network. BLE is a … continue reading
CA Technologies updates its mainframe solutions
CA Technologies is trying to accelerate modernization and integration initiatives with the announcement of new updates to its mainframe solutions to reach that goal. The new offerings will allow customers to maximize resources and protect data, while working with the latest technologies and innovations. “Mainframes are an integral part of any hybrid IT environment where … continue reading
Atlassian reveals a Jira Service Desk integration with Device42
Atlassian has announced that Jira Service Desk will now integrate with Device42, a IT infrastructure management company. “Enterprises are faced with a mounting challenge as they attempt to maintain up-to-date inventories of their physical, virtual, and cloud servers,” said Raj Jalan, founder and CEO of Device42. “The integration will provide Atlassian customers with a robust … continue reading
Logz.io brings AI to security analytics with the release of its Security Analytics App
More and more, software developers are being handed more responsibilities, the largest of which is security. To help them out, log management company Logz.io has announced its Security Analytics App, providing a unified platform for security and operations that combines analytics with AI to provide better threat detection and remediation. “We believe engineers should have … continue reading
HashiCorp’s multi-cloud infrastructure automation suite gets several new updates
HashiCorp announced new updates to its multi-cloud infrastructure automation suite at its user and technology conference HashiConf 2018. “The reality for the vast majority of the Global 2000 is and likely always will be ‘multi-cloud,’” said Dave McJannet, CEO of HashiCorp. “We continue to invest deeply across our product suite so that our users can … continue reading
OpsRamp brings machine learning to IT operations with OpsQ
AIOps platform provider OpsRamp is releasing OpsQ, is new intelligent event management, alert correlation, and remediation solution. The new release will enable IT operations to optimize and automate tasks by understanding the impact of an IT issue and ensure that service is restored as fast as possible. OpsRamp OpsQ uses machine learning models to learn … continue reading
