IT spending to drop by 15.5% this year, recent data shows
IT spending has dropped by 8% this year due to the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, and is expected to keep going down, according to data from investment company LearnBonds. Companies are expected to drastically cut down on their technology budgets to only essential IT costs. By the end of 2018, global spending on IT … continue reading
Cisco ACI 5.0 now available
Cisco has announced the general availability of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) 5.0. Cisco ACI 5.0 introduces new features for service providers, simplified multicloud deployments, Day 2 operations tools, and user experience improvements. “It is more important than ever to have a network that is automated and secure from the edge, to the data … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks launches ML-powered firewall
Palo Alto Networks launched an ML-powered Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) with PAN-OS 10.0, which embeds machine learning in the core of the firewall to proactively assist in intelligently stopping threats, securing IoT devices, and recommending security policies. Palo Alto Networks stated that by bringing these industry firsts into a single system, organizations can protect against up … continue reading
Report: Majority of organizations need to update outdated infrastructure
A majority of organizations are looking to align IT infrastructure to business outcomes in order to be more successful, but that goal is presenting many challenges along the way. A recent report from IT company Wipro revealed 75% of organizations need to upgrade their old and outdated infrastructure. Additionally, the average age of hardware within … continue reading
DataStax releases beta of Vector AIOps solution
DataStax announced the private beta of Vector, an AIOps service for Apache Cassandra that continually assesses the behavior of a Cassandra cluster to provide developers and operators with automated diagnostics and advice. The beta release uses reactive learnings to offer proactive advice, according to the company in a post. Vector is able to analyze individual … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cohesity’s subscription pricing, Microsoft’s new VMs, and Centrify’s ServiceNow plugin
Cohesity has announced a consumption-based subscription pricing plan. With the new pricing model, users will only be charged for the data management services used. Prior to this, customers would have to pre-purchase blocks of capacity. “More companies are embracing a consumption-based approach in order to reduce capital costs and to make adjustments on the fly … continue reading
StarlingX now a top-level OSF project
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) has announced that StarlingX is now one of their top-level open infrastructure projects. StarlingX is an edge infrastructure platform that can be used to build edge clouds. It utilizes components from other open source projects like Ceph, Linux, KVM, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. The project was first created in May 2018 as … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Starboard
This week’s selected open-source project of the week is a Kubernetes toolkit from Aqua Security called Starboard. Starboard integrates Kubernetes tools into the Kubernetes experience in order to provide a unified security experience. “What if all the Kubernetes security tools spoke the same language that everyone knows and understands? Similar to the standardized and well-known … continue reading
JumpCloud releases Directory Insights
JumpCloud announced Directory Insights, its new event logging feature that provides IT administrators with a complete picture of an end user’s access and access rights. “It’s a challenge to track all the changes that can happen to a user’s access, all of the applications they access, and furthermore when things go wrong, pinpoint the root … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Syntax CxHub, NinjaRMM 4.6, and 1Password and Rippling partnership
Syntax is releasing a Customer Experience Hub (CxHub) to give IT administrators better visibility into their IT resources, support tickets, and billing details. Customers will be able to handle a number of different tasks through CxHub, including monitoring servers, workstations, databases, network storage, etc.; starting and stopping servers; comparing line-item invoices; and filtering infrastructure resource … continue reading
Linkerd 2.8 introduces multi-cluster connectivity
The latest version of Linkerd is now available. Linkerd 2.8 adds a multi-cluster extension to the service mesh. This allows Kubernetes service to be connected across cluster boundaries in a secure way. Linkerd’s multi-cluster functionality aims to meet four goals: Provide a unified trust domain Separate failure domains Support heterogeneous networks Provide a unified model … continue reading
ONUG Collaborative provides guidance on automated cloud governance
ONUG, an enterprise technology consumer driven community, has announced a new white paper on achieving automated cloud governance. The white paper is meant to address lack of cloud infrastructure visibility and ensure all aspects of the deployment pipeline are protected in today’s cloud era. The white paper is the first project to be released by … continue reading
SolarWinds APM Suite gets new service map and web transaction recorder
SolarWinds is updating its application performance management (APM) suite to help simplify application and infrastructure management. The new updates are being made to SolarWinds’ AppOptics, Pingdom and Loggly solutions. “We believe IT pros need an APM solution with the capabilities to deliver full-stack visibility into the applications and infrastructure supporting business continuity and success that’s … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Menlo Security partners with Microsoft, VIAVI and 3Z announce new toolkit, and Harness releases Continuous Efficiency
Menlo Security has announced that it is partnering up with Microsoft through the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP). MAPP provides early access to vulnerability information to allow software providers to more quickly provide protections to their customers. “Menlo Security is pleased to partner with Microsoft to incorporate protections against newly discovered vulnerabilities before they are … continue reading
