US Signal launches new solution to prevent DDoS attacks
US Signal has announced a new solution that will help organizations protect against DDoS attacks. Its Website and Application Security Solution is designed to filter unwanted and malicious traffic before it reaches the customer’s network. According to the company’s 2019 State of Web and DDoS Attacks survey, 83 percent of organizations have been affected by … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Datadog files for IPO, Platform9 raises $25 million, and Micro Focus Policy Compliance Assessor
Datadog has revealed that it has filed for an IPO of Class A common stock. The number of shares and their pricing have not been announced yet. “Congratulations to DataDog for having built a strong business and for filing for an IPO,” said Suresh Vasudevan, CEO of Sysdig. “The success of Datadog illustrates a few … continue reading
VMworld 2019: Dell announces support for VMware PKS, Bitdefender’s GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments now available on VMware Cloud Marketplace, and more
The 2019 IT conference VMworld kicked off in San Francisco this week, and a number of companies are using the event as an opportunity to show off their latest releases. Prior to the event, VMware also announced intentions to acquire both Pivotal and Carbon Black. According to the company, these acquisitions show VMware’s commitment to … continue reading
SolarWinds Discovery aims to improve software delivery
IT management software provider SolarWinds announced the launch of SolarWinds Discovery, a SaaS-based solution designed to provide organizations with an efficient way to discover, map and improve their software delivery. The solution fully integrates with the SolarWinds Service Desk, allowing IT professionals to proactively address potential risks to IT and to stay compliant with software … continue reading
VMware scoops up cloud-native companies Pivotal and Carbon Black
VMware has officially announced it will be acquiring cloud-native platform provider Pivotal for $2.7 billion. The company first revealed it was in talks with Pivotal earlier this month. The acquisition will help the company grow its Kubernetes offerings. Pivotal recently launched Pivotal Spring Runtime for Kubernetes and is working on Pivotal Application Service for Kubernetes. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Icinga
Icinga offers IT Ops teams an open-source monitoring and metric solution system to keep a check on the entire infrastructure. It monitors performance and availability and will even notify teams of any issues. The core of the monitoring platform recently reached version 2 with checks to network resources, outages and performance data. The most recent … continue reading
Network automation – To plan or not to plan is the question
“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble at his door.” – Confucius As the network evolves into a more dynamic environment due to the introduction of new concepts such as virtualization and software-defined everything, it is becoming imperative that operators automate as much as possible. Whether it be software-defined WAN, data … continue reading
IT Ops news digest: OpenPOWER comes to the Linux Foundation, Storj Labs V3 beta, and Sisense cloud-native architecture
IBM has announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will move under the Linux Foundation. The foundation believes in collaboration with the open-source community to advance open hadware technology and accelerate opportunity. In addition, the company is opening the POWER Instructuion Set Architecture to help hardware and software work together on POWER. IBM will also contribute other technologies … continue reading
Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05 billion
Splunk is taking its cloud offerings to new heights with the acquisition of real-time cloud monitoring for infrastructure, microservices, and applications solution provider SignalFx. The company has agreed to acquire SignalFx for approximately $1.05 billion. According to Splunk, once the deal closes it will be focused on APM at every stage of an organization’s cloud … continue reading
Report: 94 percent of ITSM personnel aren’t fully integrated into DevOps
While the burgeoning of DevOps environments in enterprises has brought development teams together and sped up software delivery, only 6 percent of IT service management personnel state that they are fully involved in their company’s DevOps activities and ambitions, according to a survey by Sysaid. This number is down from the 13 percent who felt … continue reading
Puppet releases vulnerability remediation solution for IT Ops teams
Infrastructure automation and delivery provider Puppet is giving IT teams the ability to find, prioritize and remediate mission-critical vulnerabilities with the announcement of Puppet Remediate. The new vulnerability remediation solution aims to reduce the time it takes to detect vulnerabilities, and enable immediate action without agent technology on the vulnerable systems. According to Forrester, 58 … continue reading
Catchpoint expands NS1 deployment with redundant DNS
NS1, a leader in next generation DNS and application traffic management solutions, today announced that Catchpoint’s Digital Experience Monitoring platforms will leverage NS1’s white-glove migration services to quickly and securely implement NS1’s Dedicated DNS for added redundancy. Catchpoint previously leveraged a combination of NS1 and Oracle Dyn. Maintaining redundant DNS is crucial to ensure optimal performance and 100% … continue reading
Report: Companies underestimate the challenges of deploying an SD-WAN
Companies are struggling to fully understand the cost, complexity, and time it will take to build and maintain an SD-WAN. A new report revealed even when companies are working with an operator to get it set up there are still many challenges. Aryaka’s 2019 State of the WAN report surveyed 795 IT and network practitioners … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: CNCF archives rkt, Rancher Labs Platinum Partner Program, and Singularity Enterprise
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it has voted to archive the rkt project. The project is an application container engine that was developed by CoreOS for cloud-native environments. According to the CNCF, while rkt was popular when it was created in December 2014, user adoption has severely declined. CNCF hosts other container runtime … continue reading
