Liqid introduces multi-fabric support for composable infrastructure
In an update to its Command Center software, infrastructure platform Liqid has extended the solution’s ability to compose infrastructure across different fabric types. Command Center enables “dynamic, bare-metal composability utilizing pools off-the-shelf hardware connected across intelligently-managed fabrics,” Liqid explained. Command Center 2.2 will introduce multi-fabric support across all major fabric types, including PCIe Gen 3, … continue reading
Linux Foundation and ETSI find common ground
The Linux Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ETSI, a creator of IT global standards and the EU-registered European Standards Organization (ESO). The organizations agree that joint communication between code collaborators and the standards community is necessary to foster the collation of open source and standards. Faster information-sharing with the standards community will expedite … continue reading
SolarWinds adds password management and privileged client knowledge management to its IT security portfolio
SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that it has launched SolarWinds Passportal suite—a unified set of password management and privileged client knowledge management tools, adding to its IT security product portfolio. This represents another advance in SolarWinds’ mission to provide products that are purposefully designed to make the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Prometheus
This week’s highlighted open-source project, Prometheus, provides monitoring and alerting for cloud native applications. The project’s main features include a multi-dimensional data model, a flexible query language, autonomous server nodes, and more. In addition, most of Prometheus’ projects are written in Go, which means that they can be easily deployed as static binaries, the Prometheus … continue reading
NS1 open sources its Flamethrower DNS testing tool
DNS and traffic management solution provider NS1 has announced the open source release of its Flamethrower tool for testing, benchmarking, and stress testing DNS servers and networks. Flamethrower supports IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, and DNS over TLS. It also offers experimental support for DNS over QUIC. It generates the queries for tests using a modular … continue reading
TrilioVault 3.2 is now available
Backup and recovery provider Trilio announced today that TrilioVault 3.2 is now available. TrilioVault is an OpenStack backup and recovery solution that can restore workloads in a single click, the company explained. This release adds features that will enable companies with more advanced architectures to use TrilioVault. TrilioVault 3.2 builds off the major upgrades that … continue reading
ServiceMax launches new solution that allows for remote triaging of issues
ITSM provider ServiceMax has announced a new solution that will cut down on unnecessary technician dispatches, often referred to as “truck rolls.” ServiceMax Remote Triage is a new module that uses machine learning to analyze data from multiple sources to identify service issues from a distance. According to ServiceMax, when technicians are dispatched to a … continue reading
ManageEngine debuts conversational virtual support agent for its ITSM solution
ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, today announced that the cloud version of ServiceDesk Plus, its flagship IT service management solution, now includes Zia, Zoho’s AI assistant as a virtual IT support agent. Zia can answer simple questions, perform service desk operations, and interact with third-party apps, reducing response times and boosting technician efficiency. End … continue reading
Cumulus Networks’ NetQ 2.0 provides better network visibility for modern data centers
Cumulus Networks has announced a new major version of its NetQ network operation toolset. NetQ provides insight and operational intelligence about the health of data center networks, the company explained. According to Cumulus Networks, NetQ has three primary functions: data collection, data analytics, and data visualization. The solution allows for further automation of IT networks, … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Helm
This week’s highlighted open-source project of the week helps users manage Kubernetes applications. Helm allows users to manage Kubernetes charts, which are “packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources.” Helm Charts allow users to define, install, and upgrade Kubernetes applications. According to the Helm team, Charts are easy to create, version, share, and publish. According to Helm, … continue reading
StorageOS 1.2 offers improved rapid failover
The latest version of StorageOS, 1.2, is now available. StorageOS provides persistent storage for containers, and this latest version includes new features to provide rapid failover, and improves security and performance. New Rapid Failover features will now influence how StatefulSet fails over pods. StatefulSet is a controller for running stateful workloads on Kubernetes. When it … continue reading
Intel slashes plans to enter the 5G smartphone modem space
Intel has announced that it will no longer be working on 5G smartphone modems. Instead, the company will be doing an assessment of what opportunities there are for 4G and 5G modems for PCs, IoT devices, and other data-centric devices. “We are very excited about the opportunity in 5G and the ‘cloudification’ of the network, … continue reading
GKE Advanced introduces enterprise-grade controls, automation, and flexibility
Kubernetes has seen a lot of adoption since Google first open-sourced it in 2014, but despite the suite of tools surrounding it, many organizations still feel overwhelmed at the thought of running Kubernetes on their own. Many companies turn to managed Kubernetes services for assistance, such as the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). In order to … continue reading
Platform9 releases three new open-source tools for Kubernetes
SaaS-managed hybrid cloud developer Platform9 today announced Klusterkit, which contains three open-source tools that help developers use production-grade Kubernetes clusters in air-gapped, on-premises environments. Air-gapping is a security measure in which a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as the public Internet or an unsecured local area network. The three tools … continue reading
