Google Cloud Next: XMatter’s new incident response tool, Cohesity’s backup-as-a-service, and Harness’ availability in GCP marketplace
Google Cloud’s annual conference for IT professionals, Google Cloud Next, is taking place this week in San Francisco, and a number of companies are using the event as an opportunity to showcase new solutions and updates to existing ones. Here are some of the highlights: XMatters launches a new tool for incident response XMatters has … continue reading
Bitdefender adds new threat intelligence services
Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries, today announced it is expanding its strategy and portfolio to include a more services-oriented approach, starting with threat intelligence services. Managed Security Service Providers, security consulting companies, and large enterprises seeking better visibility into the threat landscape can now integrate Bitdefender Advanced … continue reading
Juniper Networks extends SD-WAN solution to the cloud
Juniper Networks is giving IT professionals a new way of managing and securing WAN infrastructures. The latest version of Contrail Service Orchestration offers a cloud-delivered version of its existing SD-WAN solution. The new solution not only provides management and security features for the WAN infrastructure, but also LAN and Wi-Fi networks deployed with it. Benefits … continue reading
IBM Demos Project Eirini Preview for Kubernetes Deployment on Cloud Foundry
IBM has released the technical preview of a new open source tool that will allow deployment of Kubernetes clusters in Cloud Foundry-based application runtime environments. IBM demonstrated the Project Eirini beta at last week’s Cloud Foundry Summit in Philadelphia. Project Eirini aims to overcome a key hurdle in running Kubernetes in Cloud Foundry PaaS environments … continue reading
CRI-O now an incubating project at the CNCF
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted a new project to its incubator. CRI-O is a lightweight implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface (CRI). It was designed to enable the use of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtimes and images, the CNCF explained. “CNCF hosts a variety of container runtimes and we’re excited … continue reading
Google expands its Compute Engine offerings with new VMs
Google Cloud is expanding its Compute Engine offerings with new Compute-Optimized VMs and Memory-Optimized VMs, both of which are based on second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. “Whether you’re running compute-bound applications for HPC or large, in-memory database applications like SAP HANA, you need the right mix of compute resources for the job, while also keeping … continue reading
RackWare launches Hybrid Cloud Platform to remove barriers to enterprise cloud adoption
RackWare, Inc., the leader in enabling comprehensive cloud computing management in the enterprise, today launched its Hybrid Cloud Platform. As a single provisioning and management solution, this cloud management platform is specially designed to unify functionality and leverage it across three solution areas: cloud migration, disaster recovery and backup, and hybrid cloud management. RackWare’s Hybrid … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Xen Project Hypervisor
With their newest release, the team behind Xen Project Hypervisor 4.12 says that it is focusing on security and reducing code size in the open-source virtual machine monitoring platform. In a blog post, the team outlined the plans and their additional focus on renewed x86 architecture support, features for embedded and automotive, and more. “This … continue reading
Progress Software acquires Ipswitch for data transfer and network management capabilities
Progress Software has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ipswitch, a provider of secure data file transfer and network management software. Ipswitch’s products enable small and medium-sized businesses to securely share data and ensure high availability. More specifically, its MOVEit solution allows customers to securely transfer data; its WhatsUp Gold solution … continue reading
Report: Over half of IT professionals feel their job is having a negative effect on their well-being
IT operations has a real people problem. A majority of the people working in IT roles are unhappy, in part due to their jobs, according to a survey from ITSM solutions provider SysAid. The survey, “The Future of ITSM 2019,” was based on responses from 339 IT professionals. The survey found that there was a … continue reading
PagerDuty update focuses on faster incident response and team management
Incident response company PagerDuty released a new version of its SaaS orchestration platform today, introducing features aimed at helping users address service disruptions more quickly. Updates include machine learning-powered analytics, expanded “enterprise-wide” communication and an improved end-user experience, the company wrote in an announcement. “Operational complexity is making it crucial that technical responders and business … continue reading
Latest release of ActiveBatch focuses on security for IT automation
In an effort to help organizations more effectively secure their systems, Advanced Systems Concepts (ASCI) has added new security enhancements to its IT automation tool ActiveBatch. “Growing numbers of cyberthreats have driven organizations to take novel approaches to adopting security solutions,” says Ben Rosenberg, president of Advanced Systems Concepts, in a statement. “The latest release … continue reading
Pure Storage acquires Compuverde for file capabilities
Pure Storage, the data solutions leader that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Compuverde, a leading developer of file software solutions for enterprises and cloud providers based in Sweden. Compuverde will expand Pure Storage’s file capabilities, enabling enterprises to take advantage of … continue reading
Chef to open-source all of its software, creates Enterprise Automation Stack
Chef, makers of infrastructure-as-code software, today announced it is moving all of its software to open source, and introducing a new commercial distribution that bundles its portfolio of products as the Chef Enterprise Automation Stack. The code for its five products — Chef Infra, InSpec, Habitat, Automate and Workstation — is in public GitHub repositories … continue reading
