Instana has announced that it now offers the ability to monitor and trace applications using Google Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Storage technologies. “As organizations push their applications to run faster and operate more efficiently, they’re taking advantage of cloud-based software infrastructure platforms such as Google Cloud Storage, PubSub and Cloud Run,” said Chris Farrell, Observability … continue reading
IBM announced a series of data and automation updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation on Red Hat OpenShift to help companies with innovation across their expanding environments and to accelerate digital transformations. Cloud Pak for Data will now receive new industry accelerators for banking, warranty management, supply chain forecasting, and … continue reading
Isovalent has launched with $29 million in Series A funding to help companies connect, observe, and secure applications with Cilium, which is an eBPF-based networking, security, and observability tool. Cilium’s approach to networking frees applications from outdated techniques that place limits on the agility that is needed to adopt Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies. Isovalent … continue reading
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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