VMware tackles IoT gateway on-boarding and registration in the Pulse IoT Center
VMware is updating its Pulse IoT Center to help organizations accelerate their digital transformations and scale IoT deployments. The Pulse IoT Center provides a vendor-neutral edge management infrastructure platform that enables organizations to manage devices and apps on any cloud. Pulse IoT Center 2.0 was released in April, and these updates build upon that release. … continue reading
Container security: 5 current trends you can’t afford to ignore
Enterprise confidence in containers continues to accelerate – not just in terms of the number of businesses now running containerized applications, but also in how many of those deployments span the entire application lifecycle. A recent survey by Market Cube finds that 87% of IT professionals are utilizing containers, and 90% of those are using … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clonezilla
This week we are featuring the open-source project for disk imaging and cloning: Clonezilla. Similarly to True Image or Norton Ghost, Clonezilla deals with system deployment, bare metal backup and recover. Clonezilla is available in three different forms: Clonezilla live, which enables users to use CD/DVD or USB flash drives Clonezilla lite server, which enables … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Druva updates, Synopsys and AMD’s partnership, and Sysdig’s Falco + Fluent integration
Druva has announced an expansion to its platform that will help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. The update includes support for Slack and Microsoft Teams, new advanced backup, recovery and global policy capabilities for AWS workloads, and integrations with ServiceNow, Splunk, and Okta. According to Druva, these latest updates will ensure greater control … continue reading
SolarWinds expands Azure support
SolarWinds announced updates to its IT operations management offering (which includes the Orion Suite and its APM suite) that offer new and expanded Azure support that encompasses on-premises and cloud environments. The company has added support for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance as the Orion database, helping customers reduce management overhead and total cost of … continue reading
IDC’s top 10 IT predictions for 2020
We are in an age of massive technological innovation, and as such, the IT landscape is constantly and dramatically changing every year. As we close out 2019, IT analyst firm IDC has released its IT predictions for 2020 and the years that follow. “As more than half the global economy turns digital by 2023, a … continue reading
DevOps Institute announces a new course for site reliability engineering
The DevOps Institute today announced a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Foundation certification that will be available to registered education partners starting in January of next year. While there is no prerequisite to take the examination, a training course through an accredited partner is required. According to the company, the certification content includes practical advice, related … continue reading
BigPanda announces major expansion to AIOps platform
BigPanda has announced a major expansion to its AIOps platform. The platform will now enable IT operations, network operations centers (NOC), and DevOps teams to quickly investigate and resolve issues. New features include root cause changes and a real-time topology mesh. The Root Cause Changes feature ingests change data and then uses machine learning to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs project joins CNCF, Moogsoft Express released, and Kontena Lens 2.3
Rancher Labs has announced that the CNCF has accepted its Longhorn project into the CNCF Sandbox. Longhorn is a container storage solution that helps teams manage stateful workloads in Kubernetes. Longhorn is currently on version 0.6.2 and its key capabilities include enterprise-grade distributed block storage, volume snapshots, built-in backup and restore, live upgrades that don’t … continue reading
Sysdig: Half of containers live for less than five minutes
Container usage has grown in scale, complexity, and density year over year, according to Sysdig’s third annual Container Usage Report. The increase in container adoption highlights the need for companies to understand how to securely operate containers as well as how to prepare for expected growth. According to Sysdig, 50% of containers live for less … continue reading
Report: What is holding back digital transformation?
Traditional IT operations challenges, like conflicts between Dev and Ops, siloed teams, and reactive incident management, are roadblocks to success in a digital world. In a new report called “Adapt or Perish: The OpsRamp Report on Modern IT Operation in the Digital Age,” OpsRamp set out to determine what factors prevent IT teams from embracing … continue reading
Microsoft releases Threat Experts to connect customers with security pros
Organizations face increasingly sophisticated attacks, whether that’s supply chain attacks, highly targeted campaigns or hands-on keyboard attacks. To address the issue, Microsoft launched Threat Experts within Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to send targeted attack notifications and experts on demand. Defender ATP customers can now directly engage with Microsoft security analysts to understand how … continue reading
CloudEvents moves to the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced that the open source specification CloudEvents has reached version 1.0. The specification has been approved by the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee to move into the CNCF Incubator. CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common form. It was first accepted to the CNCF as a … continue reading
Microsoft greatly expands capabilities for creating and deploying IoT solutions
Microsoft is hoping to make it easier for companies to create and deploy IoT solutions. The company announced new capabilities that will help them fulfill that goal. Microsoft will help customers embrace IoT as a strategy for driving better business outcomes, improving safety by predicting and preventing equipment failures, optimizing smart building for space utilization … continue reading
