ITOps Times news digest: Palo Alto Networks DLP, Trend Micro Cloud One – Network Security, and ThreatQuotient’s Infoblox integration
Palo Alto Networks has announced a new data loss prevention solution called Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (DLP). According to the company, the solution helps prevent data breaches by identifying intellectual property and PII throughout the enterprise, facilitating regulatory compliance, and inhibiting risky user behavior. “Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the … continue reading
Jira Service Management launches to help IT teams with modern incident management
Atlassian is introducing Jira Service Management, which is a new ITSM solution. The platform is designed to help bring developers and IT operations teams together to collaborate at high velocity, enabling them to quickly respond to business changes and deliver great customer service. According to the company, Jira Service Management is the next generation of … continue reading
How teams can better collaborate on incident management
Outages can be devastating to digital businesses — if your app isn’t working, or if your site is down, you’re losing revenue by the minute. And in the modern world of high-velocity application development, outages are a matter of if, not when. However, many companies don’t spend the time and resources necessary to prepare for … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NoisePage
This week’s selected project is Carnegie Mellon University’s relational database management system (DBMS) NoisePage. NoisePage is designed for autonomous deployment, and uses integrated machine learning components to control configuration, optimization, and tuning. It also supports capabilities like automated physical database design, knob configuration tuning, SQL tuning, and hardware capacity/scaling. “Our research focuses on building the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Lightstep and Nobl9 announce partnership, Qualys updates container security platform, and WANdisco launches LiveData Partner Network
Tracing company Lightstep and SLO platform Nobl9 have announced a new partnership. By leveraging Lightstep’s tracing capabilities with Nobl9’s SLO capabilities, organizations will be able to establish SLOs from performance data captured by Lightstep. The integration will be made available as a private beta in the Nobl9 platform. “Engineers in charge of delivering reliable software … continue reading
Splice Machine’s Livewire brings operational AI to industrial IoT
Splice Machine announced a new open-source AI platform, Livewire, designed to combine data and AI, and alert plant operators of likely outages or performance degradation soon enough for them to take remedial action. According to the company, the platform enables teams of data engineers, operators, and data scientists to work together with unprecedented speed and … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Nobl9’s SLO platform now in beta, Pulumi’s round of funding for cloud engineering and Wipro and IBM team up on hybrid cloud
Nobl9 announced the public beta of its service level objective (SLO) platform for site reliability engineers. It aims to transform reliability metrics into actionable business KPIs. In addition, it works with Datadog and New Relic to collect critical metrics. “Every company—and especially companies who deliver software—must make wise resource allocation decisions and balance tradeoffs between … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeLinter
StackRox has released a new open-source static analysis tool for identifying misconfigurations in Kubernetes deployments. KubeLinter checks YAML files and Helm charts and validates whether they have been configured using security best practices. StackRox recently conducted a study that found human error as a top cause for Kubernetes security incidents, with misconfigurations contributing to 67% … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Exabeam updates Security Management Platform, Citrix adds new workplace solutions, and Pure Storage updates partner program
Exabeam has announced updates to its Security Management Platform (SMP). Exabeam SMP now can ingest data from Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blobs, and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage buckets. This enables security professionals to better distinguish malicious activity from normal behavior and easily identify and follow attacks before they lead to a security breach. Behaviors … continue reading
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 to offer a more stable platform
Red Hat has announced the upcoming release of its enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 is expected to feature cloud-native innovation capabilities as well as a more stable platform. “From delivering the latest supported developer tools via Application Streams to making the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform even more accessible to systems administrators, … continue reading
VMware and Samsung form 5G Alliance to accelerate 5G transformation
The Samsung and VMware collaboration aims to accelerate the innovation cycle for 5G through network design end-to-end and by supporting the agility required for 5G networks. The companies seek to help communication service providers (CSPs) meet the requirements of 5G networks and to optimize Samsung’s portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN … continue reading
LogDNA announces new partnerships to streamline logging
LogDNA has announced new partnerships to help developers streamline DevOps workflows and logging. It added new documentation for its integration with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions. LogDNA hopes to help users centralize logs from monolithic applications alongside logs from containerized applications. According to LogDNA, this partnership will help organizations use logs to securely move workloads … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat OpenShift 4.6, AttackIQ and Microsoft Azure Sentinel, and Akamai acquires Asavie
Red Hat has announced the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.6. The latest version introduces full stack automation installation of OpenShift on bare metal. This means that OpenShift can be run on any hosting platform. There is also a new Bare Metal Operator that prepares and exposes physical nodes to the OpenShift installer. Other new … continue reading
SolarWinds to acquire SentryOne to bolster database management capabilities
IT management company SolarWinds has announced it is acquiring SentryOne. SentryOne’s portfolio includes solutions for performance monitoring and DataOps on SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, and the Microsoft Data Platform. The addition of SentryOne will complement SolarWinds’ existing on-premises and cloud-native database management offerings. It will also amplify and extend the level of support that … continue reading
