IIoT Survey shows integration is chief inhibitor
Over 55% of respondents in the Software AG IIoT Implementation Survey find that integrating IIoT into their environments is challenging, and that this is a key inhibitor to value realization and scalability. The survey was completed in Q2 2019 by the company and an independent third-party research house. It queried nearly 200 respondents made up … continue reading
Rancher 2.3 released with Microsoft Windows container support
Rancher Labs has announced the latest release of its Kubernetes management platform. Rancher 2.3 features support for Windows containers, integration with the Istio service mesh, and new cluster templates. According to the company, 70% of on-premise workloads are running on Windows Server operating systems, and support for Windows containers has been a highly wanted feature … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ManageEngine’s ServiceDesk Plus updates, Moogsoft AIOps 7.3, and Syncsort’s event management support
ManageEngine has added enterprise service management (ESM) capabilities to its ITSM solution ServiceDesk Plus. Now, businesses will be able to create and deploy service desk instances to multiple departments. ESM will provide rapid-starts when creating service desk instances, a central ESM portal for end users, and an ESM directory to manage the organization’s users and … continue reading
ONUG and MEF team up to drive SD-WAN standards
In an effort to drive SD-WAN standards IT organization ONUG and international industry consortium MEF are teaming up on a new initiative. Their joint collaboration will help ensure that enterprises have SD-WAN services that are optimized for digital transformation in the hybrid cloud era. “As adoption of SD-WANs accelerates, enterprises will increasingly choose managed services … continue reading
Box and Splunk partner to provide enhanced threat detection capabilities
Cloud content management provider Box announced a new partnership to build integration between the “data-to-everything” platform provider Splunk and its security platform Box Shield. Box Shield is Box’s set of content security controls and advanced threat detection capabilities that is generally available this month. The controls are built natively into Box and designed to help … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Envoy
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is releasing its second Project Journey Report for the graduated project: Envoy, a network proxy that was designed by Lyft and released as open source in 2016. Its first Project Journey Report was for Kubernetes, which was also the first project to graduate from the CNCF. Envoy is typically … continue reading
Red Hat: Open-source adoption increases in IT
Open source seems to be the backbone of modern organizations. This is according to Red Hat’s State of Enterprise Open Source report. “The question today isn’t whether open source software is important to enterprises, especially in infrastructure roles. That’s a given,” the report stated. “The fact that these numbers will be unsurprising to many is … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Splunk closes acquisition of SignalFx, StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, and OutSystems’ new capabilities
Splunk has announced the acquisition of the cloud monitoring provider SignalFx is now completed. The company first announced plans to acquire SignalFx in August. The price of the transaction was approximately $1.05 billion. “We live in a cloud-first world, where developers must have the ability to monitor and observe cloud-native infrastructure and applications in real-time, … continue reading
Accenture Future Systems report reveals the consequences for businesses who fail to evolve
Technology is constantly changing, and as a result, businesses need to constantly evolve. A newly released report revealed that companies who don’t change their approach to enterprise technology will lose out on 46 percent of revenue gains by 2023. The Future Systems report was released by Accenture and based off of more than 8,300 organizations … continue reading
Report: Organizations hope AIOps will provide more control over complex IT environments
IT environments are becoming increasingly more complex, but automation can help IT operators break through some of that complexity. BigPanda has released a survey, “The Future of Monitoring and AIOps,” that highlights some of the challenges with navigating such complex environments. “IT operations is at a crossroads, as constant changes to infrastructure and code due … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: DataBank acquires LightBound, Cohesity SmartFiles, and Continuum Fortify for MSPs
Data center provider DataBank has completed its acquisition of LightBound, which provides colocation, Internet, voice, network, and cloud services. This expands DataBank’s portfolio of edge data centers, with two new enterprise-class facilities totaling over 56,000 square feet of colocation space. The data centers are located in the Indy Telecom Center, located in Indianapolis. “Our investment … continue reading
DARPA plans to speed up the network stack
In an effort to advance the network stack, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced plans to devise new networking approaches. According to the agency, while computing performance and networking performance have been accelerating, the network stack, particularly the network interface card (NIC), is falling behind. NIC is the hardware that “bridges the network/server … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Alamofire
This week’s open source project is Alamofire, which is an HTTP networking library that is written in Swift. The library includes features like chainable requests and response methods; URL, JSON, and plist parameter encoding; authentication with URLCredential, HTTP response validation, and the ability to dynamically adapt and retry requests. In addition to the core Alamofire … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cloud-native apps lack security, Azure Sentinel, and Cloudflare’s Browser Insights
A recently released report from the IT analysis and research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG )revealed very few companies are using good security practices to protect their cloud-native apps. According to the report, only 8 percent of respondents are securing 75 percent or more of their apps with DevSecOps practices. Sixty-eight percent of companies plan … continue reading
