ITOps Times Open Source Project of the week: KEDA
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaler that helps users scale any container based on the number of events that need to be processed. Additionally, it can be added to any Kubernetes cluster and it works with standard Kubernetes components such as the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler. With KEDA, users can explicitly map the applications they … continue reading
8 reasons enterprise automation is vital to cloud strategy success
The cloud is fast becoming the platform of choice to power almost every enterprise application, and with good reason – the cloud offers significant benefits including flexibility, security, and low total cost of ownership. However, that success is not without its challenges. Moving on-premises systems to the cloud and digitally transforming key processes has a … continue reading
Apple announces multi-billion dollar partnership with Broadcom to advance 5G
Apple announced a long-term, multibillion-dollar partnership with Broadcom. This partnership will produce components for 5G radio frequencies and the latest wireless connectivity technology, with specific emphasis on FBAR filters created in cities like Fort Collins, Colorado – a site of a large Broadcom factory. The investment is a continuation of Apple’s 2021 commitment to invest … continue reading
Teleport 13 offers automatic vulnerability patching
Teleport, provider of identity-native infrastructure access management, today announced the release of its latest version of the Teleport Access Platform, Teleport 13. This release is geared at improving security and reducing operational overhead for DevOps teams that are responsible for securing cloud infrastructure. Teleport 13 also provides a new Teleport Team plan for companies who … continue reading
Red Hat Summit: Ansible Lightspeed, Event-Driven Ansible, and Red Hat Insights updates
The Red Hat Summit is happening this week in Boston, MA. During the event, Red Hat is making a number of announcements related to its product suite. Here are the highlights: Ansible Lightspeed This is a generative AI service for adding automation to Ansible. It uses domain-specific AI, meaning that it has a core understanding … continue reading
New Amazon Detective features simplify AWS Security Findings analysis
New features in Amazon Detective enable customers to quickly and efficiently investigate AWS security issues. Detective collects and analyzes events from AWS CloudTrail logs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs, Amazon GuardDuty findings, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) audit logs that describe IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or unauthorized activity. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Power Grid Model
Power Grid Model is a high-performance Python/C++ library for steady-state distribution of power system analysis that offers optimized algorithms for the characteristics of the distribution grid. The project also offers full support of three-phase asymmetric calculation and efficient C++ implementation with native parallel computing support. This technology can be used for Monte-Carlo low voltage grid … continue reading
NTT and Cisco release IoT as-a-Service solution to improve operational efficiencies
IT and infrastructure company NTT announced a collaboration with technology company Cisco in order to develop and deploy joint solutions geared at improving operational efficiencies and enhancing sustainability goals. According to the companies, the combination of NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service portfolio and Cisco’s IoT features offers users real-time data insights, improved security, better decision making, and decreased … continue reading
New Relic releases new infrastructure monitoring solution with competitive pricing model
The observability platform New Relic has just launched a new solution for infrastructure monitoring. Customers will be able to view key metrics like CPU and memory for hosts, containers, and virtual machines. They can then use this information to identify which applications have under-provisioned resources and make adjustments accordingly. They will be shown an at-a-glance … continue reading
Intel and SAP partnership aims to deliver more powerful SAP software landscapes to cloud
Intel and SAP SE have created a strategic partnership in order to give customers access to more effective and eco-friendly SAP software. This collaboration will help customers gain scalability, flexibility, and the capacity to combine existing SAP software. Through this partnership, Intel is focusing on providing efficient and secure solutions for SAP to run on … continue reading
Barracuda SecureEdge works to make remote work easier to secure
Barracuda, the cloud-first security company, today unveiled its new SASE solution intended to simplify the process of making hybrid and remote work secure, Barracuda SecureEdge. This solution also integrates Barracuda’s Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway capabilities. According to the company, Barracuda SecureEdge secures users, sites and IoT devices; is … continue reading
Catchpoint unveils lots of new features to make Internet performance monitoring better
Catchpoint has announced a number of new enhancements to its Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform. Internet Weather shows the status of Internet services around the world, so that teams can be aware of outages in their third-party dependencies. It includes popular CDN, DNS, IaaS/PaaS, ISP, and SaaS providers. Traceroute Enhancement is an enhancement to Network … continue reading
Virtana announces CloudMonitor to deliver centralized visibility for multi-cloud
Virtana announced CloudMonitor to reduce the complexity of monitoring and managing hybrid IT across on-premises, colocation, and public cloud workloads. Virtana CloudMonitor offers businesses a comprehensive, SaaS-based view of their hybrid infrastructure, allowing them to maximize the usage of their multi-vendor computing, networking, storage, cloud, virtual machines, containers, databases, and more in hybrid and multi-cloud … continue reading
The App-Aware NOC: The imperatives, and how to make it happen
Fire drills and ensuing all-hands-on-deck calls are nothing new for IT operations teams. I can remember working on a site reliability engineering (SRE) team for a large, global enterprise in the shipping industry back in the late 1990s. Early on in my tenure there, an issue occurred that affected the public facing site. Initially, we … continue reading
