NeuVector announces new container security risk scores
NeuVector has announced new capabilities that will enable security teams to assess how secure containers are. In its new dashboard, NeuVector will provide security risk scores that will summarize risk factors and offer recommendations on how to improve the score. The score will be comprised of the risk of east-west attacks, ingress and egress connections, … continue reading
Exabeam raises $75 million to accelerate worldwide displacement of legacy SIEM vendors
Exabeam, the Smarter SIEM company, today announced that it has closed $75 million in Series E funding to accelerate worldwide efforts to displace legacy security management vendors. The latest round is jointly led by new investor Sapphire Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, which have collectively backed nearly 40 IPOs. Other existing investors also participated. The … continue reading
PagerDuty Solution for HybridOps facilitates collaboration between DevOps and ITOps teams
PagerDuty has announced a new solution that will enable better collaboration between DevOps and traditional ITOps teams. Often, as organizations transition to DevOps, organizations can get stuck in a state called HybridOps, PagerDuty’s vice president of product Rachel Obstler explained. “It’s like a state of being when part of your organization is transitioning to DevOps … continue reading
Panoptics now available for multi-cloud and on-premise deployment
Crosscode announced that Panoptics Virtual Appliance is now available on all popular clouds and for On-Premise deployments. Users can deploy on-premise on dedicated hardware within Azure, AWS and other cloud environments to physically separate customer data from other tenants and improve security. Panoptics analyzes the impact of any change at the code level across all … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Netdata
This week’s highlighted open-source project is Netdata, which provides real-time performance and health monitoring of systems and applications. According to its documentation, it acts as a metrics collector, time-series database, metrics visualizer, and alarms notification engine. All of these different features are “packaged together in a very flexible, extremely modular, distributed application,” the documentation states. … continue reading
SQream launches IoT Edge Partner Innovation Lab
SQream, the developers of a GPU-accelerated data warehouse called SQream DB, announced the launch of its IoT Edge Partner Innovation Lab. “The SQream Nano Partner Innovation Lab will build on the successful results we have with enterprises around the world, and provide an infrastructure for IoT partners who want to leverage our ability to store … continue reading
How Anthos will be a game-changer for your Kubernetes implementation
The recent announcement of Anthos by Google Cloud is a big move in managing hybrid cloud models. Google strengthens its position in the cloud space, where Azure and AWS are leading with a respectable margin. Anthos is an open-source platform that allows applications to run and migrate on-premises, in the Google Cloud and also with … continue reading
Stateless releases software-defined interconnect platform
Stateless has launched its new software-defined interconnect (SD-IX) platform, Luxon. According to the company, Luxon provides visibility, end-to-end automation, and API-driven functionalities, giving customers more control over their endpoints. Luxon provides Layer 3+ network services, including routing, security, and automation to interconnect points, Stateless explained. Other benefits are that it can be used in multitenant … continue reading
OpsRamp survey: AIOps seen as delivering value
There has been a lot of talk about AIOps in the past year, but it looks like the concept is now living up to expectations. AIOps is no longer just a fancy marketing buzzword, explained Bhanu Singh, senior vice president of product development and cloud operations at OpsRamp. According to OpsRamp’s State of AIOps report, … continue reading
Canonical releases consolidated security, compliance, and support offering
In order to help customers keep costs down, Canonical has released a consolidated security, compliance and support offering for open-source infrastructure, Ubuntu Advantage (UA) for Infrastructure. “Aggregating Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, KVM, Ceph and SWIFT security update and support offerings into a single package enables businesses to evolve from traditional infrastructure to private cloud and … continue reading
Sensu announces availability of Bonsai, a monitoring distribution solution for containers, multi-cloud environments
Sensu, Inc., the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale, today announced the general availability of Bonsai, the Sensu asset index, which makes it easy to package and share monitoring solutions. Because Bonsai is tailor-made for dynamic, ephemeral infrastructure, it can be used to distribute Sensu plugins to container environments in real time. Sensu plugins … continue reading
Pure Storage expands its Evergreen Storage Service
Pure Storage, the data solutions leader that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced the expansion of its Evergreen Storage Service (ES2) to provide customers with a unified subscription model across hybrid environments. This allows organizations to leverage Pure’s best-in-class storage-as-a-service model on-premises, hosted and in the cloud, without the need to … continue reading
A Cloud Guru raises $33 million in funding
A Cloud Guru (“ACG”) today announced that it has closed a growth equity investment led by Summit Partners, alongside AirTree Ventures and existing investor Elephant. The company, a clear leader in online cloud computing training and talent development, will use the funding to accelerate hiring across the globe, expand its content library with specialized courses and labs taught by a … continue reading
Cisco announces products and partnerships amid push to Wi-Fi 6
Cisco unveiled several products and partnerships geared toward Wi-Fi 6, the new standard for W-iFi networks. This includes new access points across the Catalyst and Meraki portfolios that have programmable chipsets and access to industry-leading analytics capabilities. The access points are multilingual and have the ability to communicate with multiple IoT protocols simultaneously. Also … continue reading
