EasyVista’s forthcoming ITSM update influenced by World Cup app
As soccer devotees and even casual fans await this Sunday’s unlikely showdown between France and Croatia in the World Cup tournament final, regardless of who wins, its impact will endure in the forthcoming release of EasyVista’s IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. The World Cup decidedly played a role in the company’s plan to ready Oxygen, … continue reading
Dash: Datadog announces new analytics and monitoring capabilities
Monitoring and analytics platform provider Datadog announced a new autonomous monitoring tool, and search and analytics solution at its Dash conference in NYC day. Watchdog is a machine learning monitoring capability, while Trace Search and Analytics is a tools that allows users to explore, graph, and correlate application performance data. Watchdog can identify hidden issues … continue reading
How IT Operations teams can prove their worth
To the business, IT operations teams are often considered a money sink, a necessary evil due to humans’ inability to write perfect code. I should know, as before joining AppDynamics I managed a number of operations teams, most recently for an ecommerce site in the UK. Call me biased, but I believe that CFOs and … continue reading
SecureAuth Corp + Core Security reveals new solutions for adaptive and multi-factor authentication
SecureAuth Corp + Core Security, an Identity Security Automation company, has revealed two new products aimed at providing adaptive and multi-factor authentication for users logging into servers, desktops, and laptops. According to the company, the two solutions — Login for Windows and Login for Mac — extend the company’s authentication capabilities in three key ways. … continue reading
The urgency for intelligent automation
Software development teams have been applying automation to their manual processes for years, but it is not a tool just for developers to run tests automatically and repeatedly. In order to achieve true agility, every aspect of a business needs to become more automated and the way they do that also needs to become more … continue reading
Ivanti unifies IT, service management and security operations with Ivanti Automation
Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, today announced availability of Ivanti Automation. The new product automates tasks and provides integration across third party technologies and Ivanti’s unified IT portfolio of operational security, unified endpoint management, IT asset management and service management products in addition to its identity … continue reading
MLOps Health: Taking the Pulse of ML in Production
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are everywhere. From self-driving cars to smart home devices, there is tremendous excitement for the potential of these technologies. However, operational challenges remain. According to research from McKinsey Global Institute, only 20 percent of companies have deployed at least one AI technology and only 10 percent have deployed … continue reading
Overcoming network engineering challenges
The need for speed applies to all aspects of the business, and within the IT Ops space, network engineers are being pressured to evolve, be quicker, fix problems faster and drive more strategic projects. The problem is that they are being held back by manual processes. “Every organization today has an enterprise network, and they … continue reading
Survey points to rise in PaaS, container and serverless deployments this year
Deployments of cloud-native applications in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments are on the rise this year and organizations are in large part building and running these new apps in containers, according to a report released last week by the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The report also shows an uptick in those building serverless applications, also known as functions … continue reading
Beyond blockchain: Building trustless networks
One would be hard-pressed nowadays to enter a conversation about decentralized networking without the term ‘blockchain’ becoming the focal point of the discussion. The promise that blockchain technology will disrupt a plethora of industries has captivated individuals and businesses globally. Whilst I certainly believe that the emerging technology will play a huge role in shaping … continue reading
SUSE gets new ownership, sold for $2.5 billion
Micro Focus has sold the open-source infrastructure software provider SUSE for $2.5 billion to the investment firm EQT VIII. Micro Focus first acquired SUSE in 2014 for $1.2 billion as part of its Attachmate acquisition. SUSE was founded in 1992, and is known for its enterprise-grade open-source Linux operating system. Today, the company provides enterprise-grade, … continue reading
Running containers in production
Market shifts are propelling organizations to become digital. Companies feel pressure to find better ways to offer services, respond faster and proactively to their customers, and manage growth. In their quest for digital maturity, customers are looking for solutions that not only address the aspect of capacity growth, but also other aspects such as performance, … continue reading
StackPath 2.0 focuses on the cloud’s edge
StackPath wants to transform the cloud’s edge with a new generation of its platform and services. StackPath 2.0 is designed to secure the edge with a new network of scalable and advanced edge Points of Presence (PoPs), new secure edge services, a new customer portal, and a new platform model. According to the company, its … continue reading
Containing app vulnerabilities
The allure of modern software architectures based on containers and microservices are their potential to enable business transformation efforts, but like any new technology, security is a key barrier to widespread implementation. However, new tools and evolving software frameworks promise to tackle that key hurdle. Shifting from current monolithic software to containerization is compelling because … continue reading
