AT&T and ServiceNow introduce global telco solution
ServiceNow and AT&T today announced a global telecom product geared at helping communications service providers manage 5G and fiber network inventory. Built on the ServiceNow platform, Telecom Network Inventory is available today for telcos globally. The companies stated that this release works to solve the complexities of managing network inventory by offering a single platform … continue reading
StarlingX R8.0 includes new updates for real-time applications
Cloud infrastructure software stack provider StarlingX has announced the release of StarlingX R8.0, bringing users new features and enhancements. With this release, StarlingX has upgraded to new versions of platform components such as Kubernetes, added the ability to integrate SSH with remote Windows Active Directory, enhanced the Backup and Restore feature, added support for Kubernetes … continue reading
Cisco and NTT partner to bring private 5G to enterprise customers
Cisco announced that it is expanding its partnership with NTT to accelerate 5G adoption and edge connectivity across various industries. The partnership aims to expand NTT’s Managed Private 5G solution and combine it with Intel hardware so that customers can integrate Private 5G into their pre-existing Cisco LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructure. In 2021, NTT launched a globally … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tabby
Tabby is a terminal emulator that can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It can also be used for SSH or as a serial terminal. It offers support for PowerShell, WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder, and CMD. It also includes an integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration. The project maintainers say that … continue reading
DigitalOcean announces Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets
The team at cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean today unveiled DigitalOcean Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets. This release provides users with virtual machines built for high throughput and reliable performance. According to the company, these are ideal for network and computing intensive workloads such as streaming media, online gaming, machine learning, and data analytics. With Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets, … continue reading
Dell announces new solutions to help advance adoption of open telecom network architecture
Dell announced a few advancements to accelerate the adoption of open, cloud-native technologies with new solutions and partnerships. Among the announcements, Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks expanded to support Red Hat technologies to help network operators meet the demands of 5G core and radio access network (RAN) workloads. The two companies designed a fully engineered, cloud-native … continue reading
CAST announces Green Software Insights for monitoring energy consumption
Software intelligence solution provider CAST released Green Software Insights, which automatically analyzes application source code for its energy consumption. The tool is available through the company’s CAST Highlight software intelligence product and it can find exactly where software source code needs to be changed to make it more sustainable. “For the first time, organizations can … continue reading
Radware announces new DDoS attack mitigation platform
The security company Radware, has announced the release of two new solutions: DefensePro X, a new DDoS attack mitigation platform, and Cyber Controller, a new management, security operations, and orchestration system. According to Radware, DDoS attacks grew by over 200% in 2022 and the number of blocked events per customer has almost doubled each quarter. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Feilong
Feilong is an open-source z/VM cloud connector project under the Open Mainframe Project that aims to accelerate z/VM adoption. The client library is written in Python that interacts with z/VM SMAPI (System management API) of IBM Z or LinuxONE machines. According to the creators, the goal in creating the package was to make the z/VM … continue reading
Styra Load offers better method for authorization
Styra Load is a new Open Policy Agent (OPA)-based decision engine for authorizing cloud native applications that contain large data sets. According to Styra, a challenge many companies face is that data-heavy authorization workloads can lead to high operations costs. But Styra Load uses 10x less memory and has 40% more CPU throughput when compared … continue reading
Dynatrace announces platform extensions and new releases
Software intelligence company Dynatrace today announced several new releases at its annual cloud observability conference. These include an extension of its platform’s Grail data lakehouse, the launch of AutomationEngine, and the launch of AppEngine. Grail data lakehouse has been expanded to additional data types with graph-based multicloud technology and dependencies in order to offer users … continue reading
Quali updates its infrastructure automation platform with risk reduction features
Quali has updated its infrastructure automation platform Torque with new features intended to help organizations reduce risk and increase value. Torque now automatically does a security scan and health check before allowing infrastructure to be deployed. According to Quali this cuts down on potential issues from misconfigurations. Integration with Open Policy Agent (OPA) allows policies … continue reading
Akamai releases new distributed edge and cloud platform
Akamai’s new Connected Cloud is a distributed edge and cloud platform for cloud computing, security, and content delivery. Connected Cloud utilizes the same infrastructure that powers its edge network that includes 11 other cloud computing sites. It places compute, storage, database, and other services closer to major populations, industries, and IT centers to create a … continue reading
Canonical unveils support for real-time compute in Ubuntu
Canonical today unveiled support for real-time compute in Ubuntu in the release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. According to the company, real-time Ubuntu provides deterministic responses to external events, which cuts down on response times. This makes it ideal for use cases where there are low-latency requirements, like automotive, telecommunications, and aerospace and defense. “The real-time … continue reading
