Distributed Clouds: Extending edge compute for new era of 5G & IoT
Edge computing requires new thinking on how to build and operate data center infrastructure. It demands purpose-built hardware and software that is easy to deploy and manage while simultaneously addressing the constraints of smaller and distributed data center environments. Attempting to retrofit technologies and products designed for large-scale centralized data centers has proven that they … continue reading
premium The automation imperative
Cloud-native and Kubernetes are dominant topics in technology circles these days. But why? What makes such previously obscure concepts and tools suddenly so relevant? Standard practices for software operations until now have been imperative, meaning that instructions are explicit, requiring manual steps and active intervention. Kubernetes and a new generation of cloud-native software have changed … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: KubeCarrier
Kubernatic has announced the open source release of KubeCarrier. KubeCarrier was designed to automate the provisioning and entire lifecycle management of services, applications, and API-accessible hardware devices by leveraging Kubernetes Operators. As cloud adoption accelerates, the company explained that operation teams are confronted with the complexities of service management across multiple clusters, clouds, and regions. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Oracle Cloud VMware, Red Hat Virtualization 4.4, etcd security audit
Oracle has announced its VMware solution is now available. The Oracle Cloud VMware solution is a cloud-native VMware-based environment that enables users to move VMware workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Building new digital services. Scaling business-critical apps. Enabling a remote workforce. Applications sit at the core of addressing these challenges, and hybrid cloud opens the … continue reading
Microsoft releases an open-source, cloud-native service mesh
Microsoft is the latest company to release its own service mesh solution. The company announced the open-source project: Open Service Mesh (OSM), a lightweight service mesh that runs on Kubernetes. “It is no secret that although microservice environments enable portability, allow faster and more frequent deployment cycles, and can even enable organizations to create teams … continue reading
Tanium and Google Cloud team up to protect distributed business operations
Endpoint management and security provider Tanium and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to support distributed business operations. According to the companies, as more employees transition to remote work and organizations become more distributed, IT and security teams are having to defend against an increasing number of cyberattacks while maintaining availability and security. “According to … continue reading
premium 3 reasons enterprises need to implement AIOps
Competitive organizations don’t simply react to their environments or competitors. Rather, they are proactively and predictively anticipating how to deliver better business outcomes. These autonomous digital enterprises know how to pull all the relevant information, capabilities, and people into the same place to quickly and efficiently make the right decisions. This requires flexible and dynamic … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Threat Stack for AWS Fargate, Aqua Security now on Red Hat Marketplace, and Aerospike Database 5.1
The company is extending its observability solution to the Amazon Elastic Container Service compute engine. The new capabilities will enable users to monitor AWS Fargate aspects such as processes, network activity, and running code. “Our ‘Leveraging DevSecOps to Secure Cloud-native Applications’ report shows the top container security challenge is aligning the architectural implementation of a … continue reading
Patch management can be a challenge, but not impossible
Updating systems on a regular basis is one of the best lines of defense against cyberattacks, but many companies are still struggling to effectively do patch management. According to a study conducted by ServiceNow and the Ponemon Institute, of the nearly half of respondents who had a data breach in the past two years, 60% … continue reading
Atlassian acquires asset management company Mindville
Atlassian has announced the acquisition of asset and configuration management company Mindville. Mindville Insight provides companies with full visibility into assets and services, which Atlassian believes is crucial to delivering good customer experiences and is a cornerstone of ITSM. Atlassian will use Mindville to bolster its ITSM capabilities. Mindville’s solution will allow Atlassian to combine … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clutch
Lyft has announced it is open sourcing its UI and API platform for infrastructure tooling: Clutch. The platform allows teams to build, run, and maintain workflows that have integrated domain-specific safety mechanisms and access controls. According to Lyft, cloud computing has reduced the adoption cost of new infrastructure because of how dynamic it is. However, … continue reading
BootHole vulnerability discovered in the GRUB 2 bootloader
Security research firm Eclypsium has disclosed a vulnerability, BootHole, present in the GRUB 2 bootloader. The researchers noted that almost all Linux distributions are vulnerable because most of them use GRUB 2 for bootloading. In addition, any Windows device that uses the Microsoft Third Party UEFI Certificate Authority is vulnerable. “Thus the majority of laptops, … continue reading
Chaos engineering in IT operations during COVID-19
There may never be a more perfect time to experiment with chaos engineering than right now, in 2020, while many IT teams and their end customers continue to work remotely as COVID-19 rages on. There’s been much written about chaos engineering, particularly its impact on DevOps organizations. Chaos engineering (CE) entails experimenting on a system … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: New Relic One, Citrix Web App and API Protection, and D2iQ’s Konvoy 1.5 and Kommander 1.1
New Relic has announced updates to its observability platform. New Relic One has been reimagined to provide a better user experience, new capabilities, and predictable packaging and pricing. It also now includes a free tier to make it easier for engineers to try out the platform. “From the beginning, New Relic has been focused on … continue reading
