New alliance aims to advance blockchain frameworks with distributed ledger technologies
While it is still early days for enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies, a new alliance believes it has found a better, alternative approach. The Scalable Protocol Alliance (SPA) was announced this month with a mission to build next-generation distributed ledger technologies (DLT) for business intelligence and real-world solutions. The alliance is made up of blockchain … continue reading
Pivotal Container Service 1.3 now available with Azure support
Pivotal has announced that Pivotal Container Service (PKS) 1.3 is now generally available. PKS is an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution for “day 2” of operations, designed to deploy and run containerized workloads across private and public colds. This release comes with an updated version of Kubernetes 1.12, including all of its new capabilities. PKS 1.3 also … continue reading
WANdisco breaks down the barrier to multi-cloud data deployments with general availability of LiveData for MultiCloud
WANdisco, the LiveData company, announced today the general availability of LiveData for MultiCloud, a new addition to its WANdisco Fusion distributed computing platform for enterprises. Powered by a patented, high-performance consensus technology called DConE, LiveData for MultiCloud solves the exponentially growing challenge of keeping data available and consistent across multiple cloud environments in different geographies. … continue reading
premium 9 security best practices for Kubernetes you should be following
One month after a major security flaw was discovered in Kubernetes, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has shared a list of nine best security practices for the popular container orchestration tool Kubernetes. “As organizations accelerate their adoption of containers and container orchestrators, they will need to take necessary steps to protect such a critical … continue reading
Splunk predicts the future of IT Ops in 2019
Splunk believes the IT operations space is going to transform and evolve into new areas as we continue into 2019. The company has released a 2019 ebook on its predictions based off of customer insight and company resource. “We’re always at the cusp of the next big thing, moments away from the next technological change … continue reading
Red Hat brings workflow enhancements to Ansible Tower
Red Hat today rolled out its Ansible Tower 3.4 with workflow enhancements designed to improve IT operations automation in the areas of infrastructure, cloud, networks and security. With the company’s IT management portfolio — which includes Ansible Tower, Red Hat Satellite (for Linux management) and Red Hat Cloud Forms (for bare metal, virtual machines and … continue reading
Thought leaders predict IT Ops trends for 2019
Thought leaders weigh in on what we can expect in the IT space throughout the next year. Otakar Nieder, senior director at Bohemia Interactive Simulations The AI revolution in the form of machine and deep learning continues to gather more and more traction in the software development industry. With the introduction of graphics processing unit … continue reading
Redefining the IT Department in the Wake of Digital Transformation
Emerging technologies, the consumerization of IT, and the ubiquity of cloud architecture have defined a new way of working in IT — shifting the focus of the CIO and the IT department toward integration, data, analysis, innovation, digitization, security, and privacy. Leveraging these modern digital tools to spearhead faster, smarter and more effective customer engagement, … continue reading
Nokia plots enterprise expansion with focus on blending LTE and 5G with IoT
Nokia is best known as one of the world’s largest suppliers of transmission infrastructure to broadband telecommunications and cellular carriers, but the company believes there’s growing demand among enterprises for its LTE wireless, and high-speed optical networking gear. Seeking to tap that demand, the company is launching a new enterprise business unit on Jan. 1, … continue reading
Project Argo becomes open-source, leading the way for hybrid environments
No matter what environment they are building in, every developer needs some sort of computing power. Wayfair has been making an effort to ensure that compute is delivered in an agnostic way, and the result of that work is Project Argo. Project Argo is an on-prem solution for spinning up servers and shutting them down … continue reading
Cloud Foundry Foundation: Technology maturity is driving cloud adoption
As cloud technology continues to mature, more businesses are making the jump towards cloud adoption. A recent report from the Cloud Foundry Foundation found that if it weren’t for the cloud’s maturity and reliability, adoption would have diminished. The Cloud Foundry Foundation’s report is designed to look at what is driving businesses to the cloud. … continue reading
Catchpoint launches SaaS monitoring for Office 365 and Salesforce
Digital experience monitoring company Catchpoint is launching a new solution to provide in-depth monitoring for SaaS applications. According to the company, this is the first product in its SaaS Monitoring product line. The latest release introduces monitoring for Office 365 and Salesforce. The release is part of the company’s mission to help businesses cope with some … continue reading
premium For a successful AIOps integration, avoid these four common problems
The explosion in operational data and machine-learning compute capacity is finally enabling AIOps — Artificial Intelligence for Operations. But like many other technologies, AIOps fits within a larger organizational and systems context, and enterprises need to ensure that they are ready for the shift. Successfully implementing an AIOps solution requires an awareness of the potential … continue reading
PagerDuty’s mobile app updated for faster incident response
In an effort to provide IT teams with a better way of responding to issues, PagerDuty is releasing an updated version of its mobile app. “Rising customer expectations demand real-time response, and effective DevOps and ITOps shouldn’t just be tied to laptops and desks,” PagerDuty wrote in a post. The app will offer live updates … continue reading
