The Linux Foundation to form the CHIPS Alliance project for silicon devices
The Linux Foundation has announced plans to form the CHIPS Alliance, which will host and curate open-source code related to designing silicon devices. CHIPS Alliance will facilitate a collaborative environment that will allow for the accelerated creation and deployment of improved chip designs that will be used in mobile, computing, consumer electronics, and IoT applications. … continue reading
ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus extends self-service password management to Linux
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that ADSelfService Plus, its integrated Active Directory (AD) self-service password management and single sign-on solution, supports self-service password management for Linux end users. Now, ADSelfService Plus allows end users to reset their passwords and unlock their accounts in AD from the login screen of Linux machines. When end … continue reading
F5 Networks brings NetOps and DevOps together with NGINX acquisition
As part of its effort to bridge NetOps and DevOps, F5 Networks has announced that it is acquiring application delivery company NGINX for $670 million. According to the company, bringing the two together will enable users to focus more on their applications instead of having to worry about their infrastructure. “F5’s acquisition of NGINX strengthens … continue reading
premium IPv6 deployment and the global internet
IPv6 deployment has been a topic of discussion amongst network engineers for many years. Although first standardized in the late 1990s, we didn’t start to see really significant levels of deployment pick up until 2012, helped in part by World IPv6 Launch. Depletion of IPv4 address space was and remains a significant driver for IPv6 … continue reading
Datadog and Twistlock team up to improve cloud-native risk management
Twistlock and Datadog have announced a new integration that will enable integration of security intelligence within Datadog’s platform. Customers will be able to keep their information in a centralized location throughout the DevOps lifecycle and at all layers of the cloud-native stack, the companies explained. “Cloud native architectures have changed the game for application and … continue reading
Alluxio 2.0 enables support for hyperscale data workloads
The open source, memory speed, virtual distributed storage solution Alluxio has reached version 2.0 and is now available as a preview release. According to the company, Alluxio 2.0 is the “most ambitious platform upgrade since the inception of Alluxio.” Alluxio 2.0 includes the most new open-source features since the project was created, enabling the community … continue reading
BMC extends hybrid cloud integrations in Control-M 19
Digital transformation company BMC Software has announced the latest version of its application workflow orchestration platform. Control-M 19 is designed to streamline workflows across hybrid infrastructures with a series of new cloud integrations and automation enhancements. Cloud native integrations for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure join the existing Google integrations and include AWS Lambda, … continue reading
5 ITSM trends and topics that will fuel digital transformation
Digital transformation is the buzzword that every CIO and most top-level managers are so concerned about. So, for all the hype around it, what is digital transformation, and is it really happening? Yes, it’s happening. With time, DX has become the driving force of businesses. Over the last few decades, the organizations that have disrupted … continue reading
Pepperdata announces Big Data Cloud Migration Cost Assessment
Pepperdata, the leader in big data Application Performance Management (APM), today announced its new Big Data Cloud Migration Cost Assessment for enterprises looking to migrate their big data workloads to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or IBM Cloud. By analyzing current workloads and service level agreements, the detailed, metrics-based Assessment enables enterprises to make informed decisions, … continue reading
Untangle tackles security orchestration with Network Security Framework
Network security company Untangle wants to provide better security orchestration across the enterprise and bring security capabilities at the network edge with a new solution for covering digital attack services. The company introduced its Network Security Framework at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week designed to protect, monitor and control all devices, apps … continue reading
Report: Interest in on-premises hosting continues to soar
Despite a rise in cloud-hosted websites, apps and services, on-premises servers are still a completely essential part of modern businesses, a recent survey found. IT industry professional network company Spiceworks has released its 2019 State of Servers report where it found a number of factors that are contributing to the popularity of on-premises servers. The … continue reading
Akamai delivers advanced security features in March 2019 release
Content delivery network Akamai has announced new features to help businesses accelerate their cloud migration strategy. According to Akamai, the new features will help protect content, apps, and APIs; accelerate web and mobile experiences; and make development teams more Agile. “Eighty-five percent of companies today have a hybrid cloud strategy, but many have begun to … continue reading
PagerDuty brings security closer to operations
PagerDuty wants to unify the security operations among developers, operations and security teams. The company announced PagerDuty for Security Operations with new and existing security integrations across the company’s ecosystem. “With PagerDuty for Security Operations, we now bring security professionals into the fold to operate in a unified platform to engage in real-time security response,” … continue reading
Aqua introduces new features for multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures
Aqua Security’s cloud native security platform reached version 4.0 today, introducing new controls for security and policy enforcement across virtual, containerized and microservice-based infrastructures, on-premises and in the cloud. “Aqua’s comprehensive serverless security solution now includes a full chain of controls to discover functions across multiple cloud accounts, scan them for vulnerabilities, detect excessive permissions … continue reading
