Gigamon acquires security start-up ICEBRG
Gigamon Inc., the company leading the convergence of network and security operations to help organizations improve their security stance, today announced the acquisition of ICEBRG, a Seattle-based security company. The combination of network traffic visibility from the market-leading Gigamon platform and the next-generation approach that ICEBRG employs for the detection and triage of threats, will … continue reading
Google extends enterprise-grade Kubernetes capabilities at Google Cloud Next
Google announced it is bringing the Kubernetes Engine experience to on-premise infrastructure with the announcement of GKE On-Prem as part of its Cloud Services Platform at its Google Cloud Next 2018 conference in San Francisco today. GKE On-Prem is being released as an alpha version, and is designed to deploy Kubernetes in an environment of … continue reading
Facebook open-sources new approach for handling OOM situations
Facebook believes it has developed a faster and more reliable solution for resolving common out-of-memory (OOM) situations. The company announced it is open sourcing oomd, a userspace OOM killer. The solution was designed with two key features: pre-OOM hooks and a custom plugin system. According to the company, pre-OOM hooks provide visibility into an OOM … continue reading
Visibility into IT estate is key to automation, Puppet says
Across the board, organizations are finding that automation is a strong competitive advantage to business success, but many IT barriers still remain. In a newly released report by Puppet, the company found that while visibility into an organization’s IT estate is key to automation, enterprises are still struggling. The Pervasive Automation Report found respondents don’t … continue reading
Catchpoint expands monitoring network with Cloud Nodes
Catchpoint, the digital experience monitoring (DEM) expert, today further expanded its industry-leading network of monitoring location options with Cloud Nodes, which monitors in multiple regions of the six major cloud providers, and an updated Enterprise Nodes offering, for fast-start monitoring from any location. These solutions address the challenges of ensuring stellar performance (speed, reachability, reliability, and … continue reading
Aqua Container Security Platform 3.2 released with “zero day” vulnerability protection
Cloud-native and containerized application security provider Aqua Security is introducing 3.2 of its Aqua Container Security Platform this week. The latest release comes with new capabilities for full-stack and serverless security, updated compliance features, and an OS-level security profile automation tool. “Sophisticated attacks often exploit unknown vulnerabilities in the application or operating system, also known … continue reading
Report: The state of IT is rapidly changing
The increased interest in cloud-to-the-edge technology, digital transformation and artificial intelligence is changing the approach to IT and IT service delivery. A recent report from LogicMonitor on the State of IT Delivery Survey found 80 percent of respondents have implemented or plan on implementing a modern IT solution. According to the report, the motivators for … continue reading
Google introduces commercial Kubernetes applications in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace
Google is introducing the availability of commercial Kubernetes applications today in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace. “Building, deploying and managing applications with Kubernetes comes with its own set of unique challenges. Today, we are excited to be the first major cloud provider to offer production-ready commercial Kubernetes apps right from our marketplace, bringing you simplified … continue reading
When your trusted employees leave, so will your IP
The American economy is strong and the unemployment rate is at a 17-year low. Depending on which study you believe, either 40 percent or 70 percent of U.S. working people are looking to make a job move soon. These statistics make security practitioners nervous — let’s be honest we are always nervous. The reason these … continue reading
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 released with improved automation across multicloud infrastructures
Red Hat announced the general availability of the latest version of its IT automation platform Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 today. The release adds improvements to three key areas of automation — simplifying multicloud provisioning, enhancing network capabilities and simplifying management in Windows. According to the company, it was able to simplify multicloud provisioning through … continue reading
Microsoft releases public preview of Azure Service Fabric Mesh
Microsoft has announced that it is making the preview of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh available to everyone, after having been in private preview for the last few months. Azure Service Fabric is a scalable distributed systems platform for building and managing scalable microservices and container-based application on Windows and Linux. With the service, developers … continue reading
MarkLogic introduces the MarkLogic Query Service for managing elasticity in the cloud
MarkLogic wants to help users achieve scalability in the cloud with the release of the MarkLogic Query Service. The service is a cost-effective way to query various workload demands without overprovisioning, the company explained. “Large enterprises expect three things when moving to the cloud: agility, security, and zero-administration. With the MarkLogic Query Service, our customers … continue reading
WSO2 announces support for cloud native programming language Ballerina
WSO2 announced early support for Ballerina at its WSO2Con US 2018 conference in San Francisco today. Ballerina is a cloud native programming language designed with integration in mind. As part of the support, WSO2 is introducing the Ballerina Early Access Development Support package. “Ballerina was created to address the central role integration is playing in … continue reading
StackRox Container Security Platform expands its scope to the orchestration level
Containerized and cloud-native application security company StackRox announced the latest release of its Container Security Platform today. The updated platform aims to provide an all-in-one solution for securing containers through runtime threat detection as well as actionable feedback at every stage of the container lifecycle. “The StackRox Container Security Platform’s integrated approach streamlines decision making … continue reading
