How to think about managing modern application workloads
Workloads are the workhorses of your mission-critical applications—they’re what get the job done. The environments that these workloads run in, and the way we manage them, have evolved significantly. Back in the old days, applications were built as monoliths. They were self-contained systems that included not just the capabilities you needed them for but also … continue reading
Mezmo offers free trial, community plan for Telemetry Pipeline
The observability company Mezmo announced that Mezmo Telemetry Pipeline now has a free trial and free community plan. This free option will enable companies to get insights into their data without actually needing to do the upfront investment that would otherwise be required. “Developers, site reliability engineers, security analysts, and more need access to telemetry … continue reading
RSA 2023: Google Cloud Security AI, SentinelOne Singularity Security DataLake, and CrowdStrike XDR for ChromeOS
The RSA security conference kicked off earlier this week, bringing security professionals from around the world together in San Francisco, and online. Here is a summary of some of the latest news from the event: Google Cloud Security AI Workbench This new security platform uses a large language model that is specifically designed for security … continue reading
Drive Your Network Operations Into the Future
Once taken for granted, the network has become the key connective tissue as organizations increasingly move workloads to the cloud and have employees that work from anywhere. While the network has become the lynchpin for delivering modern application experiences, traditional network operations teams have suffered from a loss of visibility and control as network elements … continue reading
VergeIO Unveils IOclone To Solve the VM Snapshot Problem
VergeIO, the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company, today announced the launch of IOclone, a new solution that solves the virtualization snapshot problem facing users today. VMware and other virtualized environments suffer from highly inefficient snapshots and because of performance concerns, customers can only maintain a few active snapshots. This level of retention is insufficient for adequate data … continue reading
The High Cost of Data Compliance Failure: Three Ways to Get Your Data House in Order
With today’s ever-expanding threat surface, businesses face critical challenges in protecting vital data from compromise. Mitigating data security risk is top of mind for security professionals at corporate and public sector agencies alike. An indication of the severity of the problem can be found in the latest Binding Operational Directive from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder best suited for cloud and containerized environments. The project’s architecture is both strong and durable, as well as lightweight and easy to transport. It is designed to handle a large volume of data quickly and efficiently, while using minimal … continue reading
Bugcrowd’s new offering allows for the purchasing, set up, and managing of pen tests online
The team at the multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform Bugcrowd today unveiled new features in its Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) solution that are geared towards allowing users to buy, set up, and manage pen tests online without having to conduct sales calls and scoping sessions. According to Bugcrowd, this offering is intended to solve … continue reading
D2iQ announces update to its managed Kubernetes platform
The D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) 2.5 update simplifies multi-cluster and air-gapped deployments to give organizations greater consistency, visibility, security, and compliance across multi-cluster environments. Key enhancements in the new release include centralized multi-cloud, multi-cluster fleet management which enables customers to more easily manage a fleet of clusters through federated application management. Engineers can ensure consistency … continue reading
Report: Developers moving away from “DIY Kubernetes”
Back in 2020, 28% of respondents to VMware’s State of Kubernetes report were building Kubernetes on their own. Now, the 2023 version of the same survey is showing that only 16% of developers are building their own Kubernetes setups. According to VMware, this decrease is an indication that companies are realizing they don’t have infrastructure … continue reading
KubeCon Europe: Sumo Logic’s Predict for Metrics, Cosmonic Connect, and Solo.io’s Gloo Fabric
KubeCon Europe kicked off today in Amsterdam, and a number of companies have already shared their latest innovations at the event. Here are a few highlights so far: Sumo Logic announces Predict for Metrics Predictr for Metrics uses observability data to predict variable applications, cloud and infrastructure usage, and resource demands. The company believes the … continue reading
Apptio announces new capabilities geared towards helping government agencies accelerate cloud adoption
Technology spend and value management company Apptio recently unveiled several announcements at its Public Sector Summit 2023. Among these announcements was the launch of Apptio’s Cloudability Government, a cloud financial management solution that is geared at helping public sector organizations improve their data-driven decision making when it comes to cloud investments across cloud service providers. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cerbos
Cerbos is a scalable, open-source authorization layer for implementing roles and permissions that was created in early 2021. With the project, users have the ability to separate and manage authorization logic in a central location for all their applications and services. By doing so, they can eliminate redundant efforts, have better visibility, and apply changes … continue reading
Report: Cloud funding is drying up among VCs
The pandemic and low interest rates fueled a big wave of cloud adoption, but that is all starting to dry up. This is according to Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in their State of the Cloud 2023 report, which looks at cloud adoption through the lens of funding and market conditions. If you compare the cloud … continue reading
