LightStep introduces new tracing solution for DevOps
Today at QCon London 2019, LightStep, the leading provider of performance monitoring software for organizations adopting microservices and serverless, unveiled LightStep Tracing. LightStep Tracing is the fastest way for developers and DevOps to adopt best-of-breed distributed tracing, a technique used to dramatically improve the performance and reliability of modern distributed architectures, like microservices and serverless. … continue reading
Condusiv: Don’t try to fix performance issues by throwing new hardware at the problem
The number one problem that IT professionals face on a daily basis is application performance, a study by Condusiv Technologies has revealed. According to James D’Arezzo, CEO of Condusiv, this consistently has been the case for the past five or so years. According to Condusiv, complaints are highest around SQL databases. “That seems to be … continue reading
Red Hat launches registry for Kubernetes Operators
Red Hat has collaborated with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft in order to create a public registry to make it easier to find Kubernetes Operators. OperatorHub.io will provide a way for the community to organize around Operators. Operators enable the automation of infrastructure and application management tasks using Kubernetes as the automation engine, Red Hat … continue reading
Containerd graduates from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Docker’s core container runtime containerd is the latest project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation this week. It has been more than two years since Docker decided to spin out the containerd runtime and the project joined the CNCF. Today’s announcement makes containerd the fifth project to graduate, following in the footsteps of … continue reading
StackRox introduces compliance features in the latest version of its Kubernetes platform
Container security company StackRox is giving customers the means to meet more compliance standards with its latest release of the StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform. Now, the solution offers ways for organizations to verify and provide evidence that they are complying with NIST SP 800-190, PCI DSS 3.2, and HIPAA standards. Organizations will be able to … continue reading
Rancher Labs introduces a lightweight Kubernetes distribution for the edge
Rancher Labs has announced a new project designed for resource-constrained environments and low-touch operations. K3s is an open-source lightweight Kubernetes distribution built for the edge. According to the company, it can be used for ARM, IoT and CI edge solutions. “The work for k3s started as a component of Rio, an experimental project we started … continue reading
Gremlin releases new chaos engineering tool
Chaos engineering company Gremlin is introducing an easier way for DevOps teams to start using chaos engineering. According to the company, chaos engineering is an approach to detecting failures before outages happen. “With the ongoing migration to microservice, serverless, and cloud environments, we believe the industry has answered ‘why do chaos engineering,’ and has begun … continue reading
Report: 5G could increase total network energy consumption by almost 200 percent over the next several years
The hype around 5G is continuing to grow, especially after the buzz about the technology from this week’s MWC in Barcelona. But a new report from Vertiv and 451 Research has revealed concerns around higher energy costs as a result of the new technology. According to the survey, which questioned over 100 telecom operators, 90 … continue reading
Valimail expands its anti-impersonation suite with Valimail Defend
Valimail, the world’s leading provider of anti-impersonation technologies to stop fake email, today announced the general availability of its third email protection product, Valimail Defend, the world’s first authoritative solution to block BEC, email fraud, and the most insidious types of phishing. Valimail Defend expands the protection that Valimail already provides for customers’ own domains through Valimail … continue reading
ServiceMax acquires Zinc for real-time knowledge sharing capabilities
Service execution tool provider ServiceMax has announced that it has acquired Zinc, a company that provides solutions to help technicians get and share knowledge in real-time. According to ServiceMax, this acquisition will allow the company to expand its Service Execution Management platform to meet the needs of the service workforce. ServiceMax believes that real-time communication … continue reading
Rackspace partners with Pure Storage to launch hybrid-cloud solution
Cloud company Rackspace has announced that in collaboration with data solutions provider Pure Storage it is launching its Ultra-Fast Performance Block Storage solution. The solution will enable customers to quickly access storage and offer hybrid-cloud connectivity and low latency for critical workloads that cannot have their performance compromised. According to Rackspace, the solution will be … continue reading
The Security Maturity Model Practitioner’s Guide to IoT
The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM): Practitioner’s Guide. The guide is designed to introduce the concepts and approach of SMM, as well as help organizations protect their connected systems. While the consortium notes there is no silver bullet for addressing security needs, the SMM intends to determine an … continue reading
MWC: Intel contributes to 5G, Sprint partners with AWS, and D-Link reveals new network solution for SMBs
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is happening is Barcelona this week, with several device manufacturers attending to show off their latest gadgets. In addition to new device announcements, several companies are also demoing and introducing new solutions for 5G, IoT, and networking. Among them is Intel, which announced several new solutions. It revealed that Ericsson … continue reading
SoftwareONE acquires cloud transformation company RightCloud
SoftwareONE, a global leading Platform, Solutions and Services company, today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire RightCloud, a leading cloud transformation company and one of the fastest growing companies in that segment in Asia. RightCloud founders Prashant Gyan, Mohit Sharma, Jonathan Limbo and Iannis Hanen will lead the combined cloud services business in … continue reading
