Network automation – To plan or not to plan is the question
“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius As the network evolves into a more dynamic environment due to the introduction of new concepts such as virtualization and software-defined everything, it is becoming imperative that operators automate as much as possible. Whether it be software-defined WAN, data … continue reading
IT Ops news digest: OpenPOWER comes to the Linux Foundation, Storj Labs V3 beta, and Sisense cloud-native architecture
IBM has announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will move under the Linux Foundation. The foundation believes in collaboration with the open-source community to advance open hadware technology and accelerate opportunity. In addition, the company is opening the POWER Instructuion Set Architecture to help hardware and software work together on POWER. IBM will also contribute other technologies … continue reading
Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05 billion
Splunk is taking its cloud offerings to new heights with the acquisition of real-time cloud monitoring for infrastructure, microservices, and applications solution provider SignalFx. The company has agreed to acquire SignalFx for approximately $1.05 billion. According to Splunk, once the deal closes it will be focused on APM at every stage of an organization’s cloud … continue reading
Report: 94 percent of ITSM personnel aren’t fully integrated into DevOps
While the burgeoning of DevOps environments in enterprises has brought development teams together and sped up software delivery, only 6 percent of IT service management personnel state that they are fully involved in their company’s DevOps activities and ambitions, according to a survey by Sysaid. This number is down from the 13 percent who felt … continue reading
Puppet releases vulnerability remediation solution for IT Ops teams
Infrastructure automation and delivery provider Puppet is giving IT teams the ability to find, prioritize and remediate mission-critical vulnerabilities with the announcement of Puppet Remediate. The new vulnerability remediation solution aims to reduce the time it takes to detect vulnerabilities, and enable immediate action without agent technology on the vulnerable systems. According to Forrester, 58 … continue reading
Catchpoint expands NS1 deployment with redundant DNS
NS1, a leader in next generation DNS and application traffic management solutions, today announced that Catchpoint’s Digital Experience Monitoring platforms will leverage NS1’s white-glove migration services to quickly and securely implement NS1’s Dedicated DNS for added redundancy. Catchpoint previously leveraged a combination of NS1 and Oracle Dyn. Maintaining redundant DNS is crucial to ensure optimal performance and 100% … continue reading
Report: Companies underestimate the challenges of deploying a SD-WAN
Companies are struggling to fully understand the cost, complexity, and time it will take to build and maintain an SD-WAN. A new report revealed even when companies are working with an operator to get it set up there are still many challenges. Aryaka’s 2019 State of the WAN report surveyed 795 IT and network practitioners … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: CNCF archives rkt, Rancher Labs Platinum Partner Program, and Singularity Enterprise
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it has voted to archive the rkt project. The project is an application container engine that was developed by CoreOS for cloud-native environments. According to the CNCF, while rkt was popular when it was created in December 2014, user adoption has severely declined. CNCF hosts other container runtime … continue reading
Shadow IT doesn’t have to be as dark as it sounds
It’s no secret that IT teams are overwhelmed. Sometimes they don’t have the time or resources required to get everything that needs to be done done. And when employees have to wait long periods of time for IT to approve something, sometimes they decide to take IT matters into their own hands. Shadow IT is … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Open vSwitch
Open vSwitch is a virtual switch designed to allow for massive network automation. It can support distribution across multiple physical servers. According to the team, the project can operate as a soft switch that runs within the hypervisor and the control stack for switching silicon. Currently a Linux Foundation project, Open vSwitch is used in … continue reading
Report: 1 in 7 organizations suffer from lateral phishing attacks
Email phishing is nothing new, but lateral email phishing is continuing to grow and evolve. Lateral phishing occurs when an attacker is able to compromise an internal email address and send phishing attacks. Because it looks like the email is coming from a trusted source, it can be hard for organizations to defend against it. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NS1 and Salesforce’s DNSSEC implementation, StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform now on GCP Marketplace, and Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold 2019.1
NS1 and Salesforce have announced that they have collaborated on the first implementation of multi-signer DNSSEC. This enables the cryptographic signing of DNS records across zones with multiple DNS platforms. According to NS1, DNSSEC prevents DNS spoofing and cache-poisoning attacks. They believe that this implementation is well-timed because cybercriminals have been increasingly targeting DNS lately. … continue reading
Protect Against Cyberattacks with a Digital Stoplight
Crime no longer is confined to seedy back alleys or only takes place during the dead of night; the internet has become a playground for cybercriminals who don’t have the constraints of time or location. Cybercrime has seen a significant increase in recent years, and along with that has come growing damage recovery costs. The … continue reading
Cloudflare’s Magic Transit aims to make networks smarter and more secure
Cloudflare has announced a new tool meant to simplify IT operations. Magic Transit is a new networking solution that brings the benefits of Cloudflare’s network to its customers’ on-premise and data center networks. Specific benefits of Magic Transit include Layer 3 DDos mitigation, improved performance, and lower total cost of ownership. Deployed in front of … continue reading
