NVIDIA announces new processors, collaboration tools, and supercomputer building blocks
NVIDIA has announced a number of new product announcements and updates at the GPU Technology Conference. Here are a few highlights: New processor featuring a data-center-infrastructure-on-a-chip architecture (DOCA) The new BlueField-2 DPU will enable breakthroughs in networking, storage, and security performance, NVIDIA explained. The new processor is optimized to offload critical networking, storage, and security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of Week: SPIFFE
SPIFFE stands for the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. The project aims to define a framework and standards for identifying and securing communications between app services. According to its GitHub page, SPIFFE includes SPIFFE IDs implemented as Uniform Resource Identifiers. This defines how services services identify themselves to one another SPIFFE Verifiable Identity Document … continue reading
Amazon releases new time series database for IoT and operational apps
Amazon has announced the general availability of Timestream, a new solution designed to enable users to store and access time series data at scale. The solution tackles Internet of Things and operational applications, and can scale to process trillions of time series events per day. The company believes it is 1,000 times faster than relational … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Twilio Microvisor, PagerDuty acquires Rundeck, and BMC updates
Twilio has announced it is expanding its IoT offerings with the release of the Microvisor IoT Platform. Microvisor provides a single platform for developers to build connected devices, keep them secure, and manage them. According to Twilio, the company’s goal is to accelerate IoT adoption by providing as much common infrastructure as possible. “While Super … continue reading
VMworld 2020: Cloud Disaster Recovery, Tanzu updates, Project Monterey, and more
VMware announced a range of solutions and services to help its customers build, run, manage, connect, and protect applications anywhere. These include new projects, acquisitions, and solutions were unveiled at VMWorld 2020. VMware aims to deliver unified platform for a modern, multi-cloud world In addition to providing wider support for running VMware applications on the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: BMC and AWS integration, i2Coalition’s VTI Principles, and HPE’s new partner offerings
BMC and AWS have announced a new collaboration to improve enterprise cloud visibility. BMC Helix Discovery now integrates with AWS Systems Manager, allowing customers to easily identify and map resources on Amazon EC2 instances on AWS. “To achieve service and operations excellence, it’s critical that organizations have dynamic visibility into all their environments,” said Ali … continue reading
premium The future of IT self-service: 5 ways to never take a help call again
In the long term, organizations expect as many as 41% of their employees to work remotely at least part of the time. A recent Gartner survey reinforces the need for IT to deliver a user experience (UX) that the autonomous, remote worker of the future finds productive, non-invasive and trouble-free. The best user experience is … continue reading
Report finds nearly half of respondents delay rolling out applications because of container security concerns
Security continues to be a concern for container strategies. A recent report by the container security company StackRox found that 44% of respondents delayed rolling out applications into production because of security concerns and that security incidents among respondents remain high at 90%. “Rolling out an application that hasn’t passed a security assessment puts the business … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Knative
Knative is an open-source Kubernetes-based platform for building, deploying and managing modern serverless workloads. It is designed for developer productivity and handles the complex details of deploying and managing cloud-native services. According to the team, the project is focused on API with higher level abstractions; stands up secure and stateless services in seconds; provides loosely … continue reading
The Cloud Security Alliance releases new insights into the top cloud computing threats
In an effort to help secure cloud computing environments, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has released the Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious 11 Deep Dive report. The report takes a deep look at the challenges of cloud computing as well as looks into nine recent cybersecurity attacks and breaches. “These anecdotes will let cybersecurity … continue reading
Linux Foundations shows progress with its LF edge and LF networking umbrella organizations
The Linux Foundation umbrella projects LF Edge and LF Networking have reached new milestones that highlight trends that set the stage for next-generation technology. “Indicative of what’s coming next, our communities are laying the groundwork for markets like cloud native, 5G, and edge to explode in terms of open deployments,” said Arpit Joshipura, the general … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Intel’s new hardware, WANdisco and Infosys, and SolarWinds and Cisco Meraki
Intel has announced new IoT-enhanced processors that improve edge devices. New hardware includes 11th gen Intel Core, Intel Atom x6000E series, and Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series processors. “By 2023, up to 70% of all enterprises will process data at the edge. 11th Gen Intel Core processors, Intel Atom x6000E series, and … continue reading
Red Hat releases OpenShift Container Storage 4.5
The key features of Red Hat’s newly released OpenShift Container Storage 4.5 include external mode support for shared storage with Red Hat Ceph Storage, support for VMs and applications on OpenShift, and more. By enabling deterministic performance for data workloads such as archives, data lakes, and databases like PostgreSQL, Data Warehouses, and IBM Db2 Warehouse, … continue reading
FireMon announces new agile network security policy management platform
FireMon’s new agile network security policy management platform offers security capabilities to enable cloud and digital transformation initiatives. “Our customers have told us that traditional approaches to managing network security policy are too cumbersome for their dynamic cloud and hybrid environments,” said Satin H. Mirchandani, the president and CEO of FireMon. “Our agile approach to … continue reading
