ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Salt
Salt is an event-driven automation tool and framework built in Python to deploy, configure, and manage complex IT systems. This open-source project can be used to automate common infrastructure administration tasks and be sure that all parts of the users infrastructure are operating correctly. Salt can also be used to manage operating system deployment and … continue reading
Flexera One FinOps helps to improve cost of enterprise collaboration
Flexera, a company that works to help organizations gain business value from their technology investments, today released Flexera One FinOps to strengthen an enterprise’s FinOps and cloud central teams. This release is intended to enhance the combination of IT asset management and FinOps in order to improve the way enterprises visualize and administer cloud usage … continue reading
Splunk releases security and observability platform to help build secure digital enterprises
Cybersecurity and observability company Splunk today announced new innovations to its unified security and observability platform, including improvements to Splunk Mission Control and Splunk Observability Cloud, as well as the general availability of Splunk Edge Professor. These innovations are geared at assisting teams as they work to build safer and more resilient digital enterprises. With … continue reading
Report: 55% of teams agree that built-in monitoring is most important AIOps feature
The digital operations management company OpsRamp today released the findings from its study on the state of AIOps technology adoption and development. It was revealed that Built-in monitoring and native instrumentation is considered the most important feature by over half of respondents (55%). Despite 70% of MSPs and 62% of enterprises having concerns about the … continue reading
Cloudflare shares list of the most impersonated brands and announces new tools to protect employees
The security, performance, and reliability company Cloudflare today published a global report on the Top 50 Brands Used in Phishing Attacks. With this the company has also announced that it is opening beta access to its new brand and anti-phishing tools directly from the Security Center dashboard. The company’s intention with these tools is to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Open Compute Project
The Open Compute Project (OCP) is a collaborative community that focuses primarily on redesigning hardware technology in order to support the expanding demands on compute infrastructure. The OCP community includes both hyperscale data center operators and industry professionals working with vendors to help them develop and commercialize open innovations that, when embedded in products, can … continue reading
Report: Tool sprawl and data source overload challenges over half of organizations
Grafana Labs has announced the findings from the Grafana Labs Observability Survey 2023, revealing that 52% of companies are currently using six or more observability tools, leading tool sprawl and data source overload to become key challenges. With this, 11% of respondents stated that they are using sixteen or more different observability tools in their … continue reading
Finout releases anomaly detection for FinOps
The team at the cloud cost observability platform Finout today launched end-to-end anomaly detection for FinOps. With this, finance and engineering teams are provided with a centralized dashboard for monitoring spikes in cost as well as other out of the ordinary spending behavior across all major cloud providers and various third party SaaS services. According … continue reading
The Wireshark Foundation has been announced to support open-source development of project
The unified cloud and security company Sysdig Inc. today announced the Wireshark Foundation. The goal of the foundation is to provide a long-term custodian to Wireshark, the open-source project that allows teams to to monitor network traffic, learn protocols, and packet basics as they also troubleshoot network problems. Additionally, the foundation is intended to help … continue reading
AT&T and ServiceNow introduce global telco solution
ServiceNow and AT&T today announced a global telecom product geared at helping communications service providers manage 5G and fiber network inventory. Built on the ServiceNow platform, Telecom Network Inventory is available today for telcos globally. The companies stated that this release works to solve the complexities of managing network inventory by offering a single platform … continue reading
StarlingX R8.0 includes new updates for real-time applications
Cloud infrastructure software stack provider StarlingX has announced the release of StarlingX R8.0, bringing users new features and enhancements. With this release, StarlingX has upgraded to new versions of platform components such as Kubernetes, added the ability to integrate SSH with remote Windows Active Directory, enhanced the Backup and Restore feature, added support for Kubernetes … continue reading
DigitalOcean announces Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets
The team at cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean today unveiled DigitalOcean Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets. This release provides users with virtual machines built for high throughput and reliable performance. According to the company, these are ideal for network and computing intensive workloads such as streaming media, online gaming, machine learning, and data analytics. With Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets, … continue reading
