ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Brooklin
LinkedIn is open sourcing its tool for real-time data streaming at scale. Brooklin is intended for streaming data across multiple data storage and messaging systems. Brooklin has been in production at LinkedIn since 2016. It is the company’s primary data streaming solution and powers thousands of data streams and 2 trillion messages every day. “Supporting … continue reading
IT Operations in 2020: Five Things to Know
The threat of digital disruption has forced senior executives and technology leaders to rethink business models, data assets, and distribution channels, to create more innovative products and services that will delight customers and overcome more nimble competitors. Over the last decade, enterprises have completely transformed the way they build, deploy, manage, and maintain mission-critical services … continue reading
Report: Companies are struggling to migrate to Windows 10 before Windows 7 End of Life
Microsoft will be ending its support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. But despite Windows 7 End of Life approaching, many companies still haven’t moved off of the 10 year old operating system. According to a report from 1E, an average of 68 percent of an organization’s machines have been migrated to Windows 10. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Matter cloud automation, StorageCraft’s plug-and-play disaster recovery solution, and Palo Alto Networks’ vulnerability research
A new platform has launched to offer cloud automation. Matter simplifies complex cloud migrations by automating planning, provisioning, and compliance. “For the past 15 years we’ve watched companies tackle their journey to the cloud and knew there was a need for greater automation across the entire process and a way to make the generational innovation … continue reading
Think through your path to modernization and the cloud
The cloud is not a yes/no question – but, if it were, the answer is yes. Yes, cloud resources can help companies to modernize their systems and gain access to capabilities they never had before. Unless you work for a Fortune 100 company that has made considerable investments in building cloud-like data centers, you can’t … continue reading
Researchers find vulnerability in popular Bluetooth-enabled devices
Internet-connected devices are opening up a wide range of applications from mobile devices to home appliances and wearables, but these devices are also opening up new areas of attack. Researchers from Boston University found that a third-party algorithm can track the location of some Bluetooth devices such as Fitbits, smart pens and even Windows and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ManageEngine adds Zia to Analytics Plus, IEEE updates IRDS, and Quest Software updates KACE SMA and SDA
ManageEngine has incorporated its AI assistant Zia into its IT analytics solution, Analytics Plus. Zia interprets questions asked via text or voice and generates visualizations and offers smart suggests based on search keywords. According to ManageEngine, users will be able to train Zia to understand terms specific to their organization. “IT managers need access to … continue reading
Report: Data silos and vendor lock-in are biggest roadblocks to architecture modernization
All IT executives are currently in the process of architecture modernization, and almost all of them are experiencing challenges. This is according to DataStax’s recent survey, IT Architecture Modernization Trends. The company surveyed 300 executives at companies with 5,000 employees or more. One hundred percent of them stated they were modernizing their architectures. According to … continue reading
IIC: Collaboration between data protection domains is the key to successful protection strategies
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has just released a white paper declaring some of the best practices for protecting data. The group specifically focused on protecting IIoT data and systems. According to IIC, not properly applying such measures could lead to negative consequences, including service disruptions, serious industrial accidents, and data leaks. RELATED CONTENT: Marriott … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: BERT
Microsoft is open-sourcing the recipe it used to pre-train its language representation model BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers). According to Microsoft, BERT led to significant advances in the ability to capture the intricacies of language. It also improved functionality of natural language applications like text classification, extraction, and question gathering. The broad range of … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AT&T and Microsoft enter alliance, ExxonMobile works with companies to advance Open Process Automation, and Insight Connected Suite
AT&T and Microsoft have entered into an alliance for delivering innovation using cloud, AI, and 5G. Microsoft will provide AT&T employees with its productivity and collaboration tools, while Microsoft will get access to AT&T’s 5G network to design, test, and build edge computing capabilities. “AT&T is at the forefront of defining how advances in technology, … continue reading
Red Sky Ops to optimize apps in Kubernetes environments
Carbon Relay is introducing a new open-source project to help DevOps teams manage and improve the performance of Kubernetes-based applications. RELATED CONTENT: AIOps Exchange to lay the groundwork for AIOps’ future According to the company, DevOps teams often struggle with how many valuable infrastructure resources are provisioned for an application in a Kubernetes environment, which … continue reading
Datadog launches new network performance monitoring solution
Datadog is announcing a new network performance monitoring solution as well as cost optimizations for its Log Management Platform at its Datadog Dash conference in NYC this week. The Datadog Network Performance Monitoring solution offers critical visibility into network connections and data flow. According to the company, it’s often hard to understand dependencies between services, … continue reading
Pivotal Application Service eases the Kubernetes experience
Pivotal wants to lower Kubernetes’ learning curve with the alpha release of Pivotal Application Service (PAS). PAS is a modern runtime for Java, .NET and Node apps, powered by Kubernetes. While the solution is built for developers, it is also made to help operation teams improve uptime. RELATED CONTENT: 4 levels of cloud maturity According … continue reading
