Kontena Pharos reaches 1.0 with a mix of security, modularity and the power of Kubernetes
Kontena has released version 1.0 of its certified Kubernetes distribution, Kontena Pharos. According to the company, it delivers a robust foundation at scale and provides a perfect mix of simplicity, security, and modularity. “We are heavily focusing on making Kubernetes safe for any environment. For example, we are blocking unauthenticated ports, using TLS authentication wherever … continue reading
DigitalOcean announces new Kubernetes deployment solution
DigitalOcean wants to provide an easier way to run containerized applications in the cloud with the introduction of DigitalOcean Kubernetes. The new solution is designed for developers and businesses looking for an easier way to deploy and manage container workloads. “Over the last year, Kubernetes has emerged as the container orchestration platform of choice, and … continue reading
Kublr Empowers Advanced Kubernetes Users with Flexible Cluster Configuration Capabilities
Kublr, a comprehensive Kubernetes platform for the enterprise, unveiled today at KubeCon 2018 its advanced cluster configuration capability designed to provide customers with the flexibility to create Kubernetes clusters that meet specific use cases. The advanced cluster configuration capability is included in Kublr v1.9, with full Kubernetes v1.9 and above support, and being showcased at KubeCon 2018 in Copenhagen, … continue reading
CoreOS aims to break the barrier to entry for Kubernetes apps with the Operator Framework
CoreOS, which is now a part of Red Hat, has announced the Operator Framework, a new open-source toolkit for managing Kubernetes native applications “in a more effective, automated, and scalable way.” According to the company, an Operator is a method for packaging, deploying, and managing Kubernetes applications. Operators take human operational knowledge and translate it … continue reading
Cisco Sets New Standard for Production-Grade Kubernetes, Enabling Enterprises to Deliver Innovation Faster with AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter
Cisco announced Kubernetes support for AppDynamics and Cisco CloudCenter, enabling enterprises to quickly and confidently adopt Kubernetes in production, and create and modernize their applications for the multicloud era. Now, enterprises can easily harness the value of Kubernetes to help deliver experiences that exceed their customers’ expectations for scale, sophistication, and velocity. Companies are rapidly adopting containers on the … continue reading
Splunk Insights for Infrastructure provides IT teams with a new approach to monitoring
Splunk has announced the general availability of Splunk Insights for Infrastructure, which is designed to be a low-cost solution for automatically correlating metrics and logs to monitor IT. It was created with system administrators and DevOps teams in mind. “At Splunk, we believe infrastructure monitoring should be seamless, inexpensive, and easy to administer and use. … continue reading
Portworx announces its most significant new release of PX-Enterprise to-date
Portworx has announced the preview of PX-Enterprise 1.4, which is the most significant new release of the solution so far. PX-Enterprise is used by organizations to run stateful containers in production. The company has added 3DSnap, which allows organizations to group and snapshot their data as a single unit. This allows them to maintain an … continue reading
Cloud Foundry deployments give PaaS a chance
Production workloads deployed in the open-source Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments are on the rise among large enterprises and many more are in development, test-mode or pilot. Buoyed by the ability to run container and microservices-based modern applications across multiple private and public clouds, and growing support among infrastructure, applications and tool providers, Cloud Foundry … continue reading
NAKIVO releases v7.4 with automated VM failover for near-instant disaster recovery
NAKIVO, Inc., a fast-growing virtualization and cloud backup software company, announced today the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4. The newest version adds 11 new features designed to simplify disaster recovery and increase convenience. Automated VM Failover: NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.4 can help restore business activities in case of disaster without unnecessary delays. … continue reading
Everbridge announces integration of its IT incident response automation solution with Cherwell Service Management
Everbridge, Inc., the global leader in critical event management and incident response automation, today announced the integration of its IT Alerting solution with Cherwell Software, a global leader in enterprise service management. The combined solution provides Cherwell Service Management (CSM) users with a full end-to-end Incident Response Management platform to enable significant and measurable reduction of IT response … continue reading
Red Hat Accelerates Software-Defined Storage Adoption with Red Hat Storage One
Red Hat, Inc.. the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Storage One, a new approach to web-scale enterprise storage aimed at providing customers the convenience of hardware-optimized systems while preserving the flexibility and scale of software-defined storage. Red Hat Storage One is designed to provide more of … continue reading
Microsoft Azure Containers Instances now available
Microsoft has announced a new way to run containers without having to manage servers. Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a serverless solution for Linux and Windows containers. “ACI offers you an on-demand compute service delivering rapid deployment of containers with no VM management and automatic, elastic scale,” Corey Sanders, corporate vice president of Azure for … continue reading
premium Creating an ITSM success story
ITSM or IT service management is a strategic approach that is used to execute the design, delivery, and management of the IT services within an organization in the most efficient manner possible. The aim of ITSM is to align the available information technology resources with the business goals of an organization. What are the different … continue reading
Juniper Networks is enabling end-to-end multicloud policy and control with new offering
Juniper Networks has announced it is expanding Contrail Enterprise Multicloud to enable end-to-end policy and control capabilities. It will support any workload in multi-vendor networking environments, as well as most cloud server deployments. According to the company, most organizations need at least two controllers to manage all of their overlay, underlay, and network devices. With … continue reading
