Ansible Tower 3.3 now available
Red Hat has released Ansible Tower 3.3, featuring a number of enhancements to improve automation in organizations. Ansible Tower is designed to scale IT automation as well a manage complex deployments and speed up productivity. Ansible Tower now includes push-button deployments for OpenShift users. In addition, as of this release, Ansible Tower is a supported … continue reading
PagerDuty announces new digital operations management solutions
PagerDuty announced two new products and an expansion of its platform today at the PagerDuty Summit 2018 in San Francisco. The company announced PagerDuty Visibility and PagerDuty Analytics to help customers enhance their digital operations while leveraging PagerDuty’s extensive data set. PagerDuty Visibility provides a real-time view into operational health, while PagerDuty Analytics offers insights … continue reading
Report: Cryptocurrency mining ramps up even as the value decreases
Even though the value of cryptocurrency has been decreasing, there was a significant increase in cryptocurrency mining in the first half of 2018, according to Trend Micro’s “Unseen Threats, Imminent Losses” report. The amount of cryptocurrency mining activity detected in the first half of 2018 was more than double that of the second half of … continue reading
Morpheus Data updates its cloud management platform with new integrations for IT Ops teams
Morpheus Data has unveiled updates to its cloud management platform that enables IT operations teams to orchestrate software-defined networks, multi-cloud high availability, and leading configuration management tools. The platform includes more than 75 third-party tools, and provides a single platform for IT teams to access those tools, and provision and deploy applications. “Keeping up with … continue reading
Veritas improves user experience in latest release of NetBackup
Data protection company Veritas Technologies has announced the release of Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2. This latest release will provide improved data protection and a better user experience, the company explained. Veritas NetBackup 8.1.2 has updated the user interface, and will now allow authorized employees to easily protect and monitor their data on-premises or in multi-cloud environments, … continue reading
Vertiv tackles edge deployment with new infrastructure products
Vertiv has released new infrastructure products today in an effort to help organizations overcome challenges associated with the network edge, such as the need for rapid deployment, remote monitoring and management, and end-to-end service. These releases further expand Vertiv’s portfolio of edge solutions and according to Vertiv, it is critical to have a variety of … continue reading
Malwarebytes: Mid-sized companies suffer the most in cybersecurity attacks
Cybercrime incidents continue to rise, and the cost of remediation for those incidents is also rising. A newly released report found organizations with about 2,500 employees in the US spend almost $1.9 million per year on cyber-security related costs. The survey is based off of 900 security professionals, sponsored by Malwarebytes and conducted by Osterman … continue reading
Keysight Ixia CloudLens to provide visibility into containers and Kubernetes clusters
Keysight Technologies has announced an extension to its Ixia CloudLens visibility platform that will provide packet-level visibility into containers and Kubernetes clusters. Ixia CloudLens is a SaaS solution that provides end-to-end cloud visibility, supporting solutions including AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (ASK), and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). According to the … continue reading
Apica Systems raises $12.7 million to grow its monitoring and testing offerings
Performance monitoring and testing solution provider Apica Systems has announced that it has raised $12.7 million in new funding. The funding was acquired by existing investors Industrifonden, SEB Venture Capital, Oxx and KTH Chalmers Capital. The funding will be used to grow product offerings, expand its talent base, and increase its global market share, Apica … continue reading
Signal Sciences announces new capabilities for threat detection and prevention
Signal Sciences has announced its Network Learning Exchange (NLX) and new Power Rules offerings. It also added an intuitive user-interface for defining, monitoring, and taking action on any web application or API transaction. According to the company, Signal Sciences NLX provides a data feed of known threats that have been confirmed to be malicious elsewhere … continue reading
Twistlock introduces cloud-native forensics in latest release
Twistlock, a provider of container and cloud security solutions, has announced the release of Twistlock 2.5. This release introduces cloud-native forensics to the Twistlock platform with the addition of forensic data collection and correlation. The platform maintains a spool of process and network activity for each node in an environment. It only centralizes and correlates … continue reading
Aviatrix adds a new security feature for AWS VPCs
Aviatrix, a software-defined cloud routing solution provider, has announced a new security capability for its SD cloud routing solution, Aviatrix virtual private cloud (VPC). Aviatrix VPC’s new egress security capability makes it easy to discover and manage traffic leaving AWS VPCs, which allows organizations to more effectively secure egress traffic against both internal and external … continue reading
