ITOps Times news digest: StackRox raises $26.5 million, Sectigo’s PKI Risk Assessments, and Simplicity Studio 5
StackRox has raised $26.5 million in funding. This round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Highland Capital Partners, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. The company will use the new funds to meet growing demand driven by Kubernetes and DevSecOps, and to deliver on its vision of providing organizations with the tools … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Confidential Computing, Synopsys and Nestwave partnership, and Cyberinc and XeneX partnership
Google Cloud is expanding its Confidential Computing portfolio with two new additions: Confidential GKE Node and new capabilities for Confidential VMs. Confidential GKE allows customers to configure GKE clusters to deploy node pools with Confidential VM capabilities. This feature will be available in beta as of the GKE 1.18 release. Confidential VMs use memory encryption … continue reading
Silicon Labs launches Secure Vault to improve IoT security
Silicon Labs announced that its hardware and software technologies dedicated to securing IoT devices against growing and evolving threats have earned third-party IoT security certifications from both PSA Certified and the ioXt Alliance. Secure Vault is a new suite of state-of-the-art security features that are designed to help connected device manufacturers address escalating IoT security … continue reading
Cloudtamer.io launches Cloud Governance Principles training course on Cybrary
Cloud governance company cloudtamer.io has announced it is partnering with IT training platform Cybrary. Together, the two companies are launching a Cloud Governance Principles training course. The new course is designed for security leaders, financial leaders, and IT and cloud practitioners, cloudtamer.io explained. The new course will cover topics such as cloud governance definitions, the … continue reading
TeamViewer expands IoT offering with predictive maintenance
Remote connectivity solution TeamViewer has announced it is expanding its IoT offering with AI-enabled predictive maintenance. Previously, TeamViewer users working with IoT could do tasks like reading sensors, setting alarms, and connecting to a range of devices. With the added AI capabilities, they will now be able to perform predictive maintenance. According to TeamViewer, in … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: AWS Bottlerocket
AWS has launched a new open-source operating system called AWS Bottlerocket that is designed specifically for running containers. The OS is based on Linux. AWS Bottlerocket includes just the software needed for running containers, as well as a transactional update mechanism. According to AWS, this allows users to use container orchestration to run OS updates … continue reading
Micro Focus releases Hybrid Cloud Management X to improve user experiences
Micro Focus’s HCMX provides cloud service consumption in a single view with analytics-based recommendations for discount management. It also modernizes the user experience with embedded AI and drives down operational costs with unified and accelerated service delivery. “The complexity of multiple tools and catalogs used to create a service, provision and manage its lifecycle and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: GigaSpaces 15.5, SentryOne premium, and ServiceNow and Cisco partner on contact tracing app
GigaSpaces has announced the release of GigaSpaces v15.5. This version has three main focus areas: realizing the value of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, perfecting microservices, and simplifying management and operations. New features include self-balancing capabilities, one-click microservices deployment, schema evolution, object analysis, Index Usage, and one-click connectors to Oracle and Postgres on premise and to … continue reading
Report: More than half of IT teams need improved technology to support remote work
A little more than half of IT teams need improved technology to support a remote workforce and learning environments, according to the new 2020 Pulse report. The areas that need more improvement include better end-user portals for managing inquiries, improved tools for managing remote teams, and increased insight to manage work and resource allocations. When … continue reading
Boomi and Solace team up on native integration modernization connector
The cloud-based iPaaS company Boomi and event streaming and management provider Solace have collaborated on a new native connector designed to help users create better, data-driven user experiences. The PubSub+ Connector for Boomi will give Boomi AtomSphere platform users access to Solace’s PubSub+ Event Portal, an event management toolset for designing, creating, discovering, cataloging, sharing, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: DH2i expands Azure support, Kasten announces Kubernetes Backup and Recovery capabilities, and VMware announces 5G Telco Cloud Platform
DH2i has announced that DxEnterprise now supports Microsoft Azure shared disks and Azure Disk Storage enhancements. This will help customers eliminate complexity and achieve high availability for SQL Server deployments in Azure. This added support also helps reduce costs and planned downtime, the company explained. “With DxEnterprise, organizations get all of the advantages of intelligent, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Jaeger
Jaeger is an open-source distributed tracing system designed to monitor and troubleshoot transactions. “As on-the-ground microservice practitioners are quickly realizing, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Anthos updates, Fastly acquires Signal Sciences, and Cisco acquires BabbleLabs
Google has made a number of new additions to its Anthos platform for running Kubernetes clusters in cloud and on-premises environments. It added Speech-to-Text On-Prem, which leverages Google’s speech recognition models and provides full control over speech data to comply with data residency requirements It also introduced Anthos attached clusters, which let admins manage Kubernetes … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.19 is now available
The latest release of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.19 is the second Kubernetes release of the year. According to the team, the gap between Kubernetes 1.18 and 1.19 was the largest of any two Kubernetes releases, at 20 weeks. “The 1.19 release was quite different from a regular release due to COVID-19, George Floyd … continue reading
