Trilio Raises $17M and Appoints Massood Zarrabian as CEO
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—December 12, 2022—Trilio, a leading provider of cloud-native data protection, announced today that it has secured $17 million in funding to drive further innovation and growth in the cloud-native application resiliency market. The company also announced the appointment of enterprise software executive Massood Zarrabian as CEO. Zarrabian was formerly Chairman and CEO of BA … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.26 released with storage improvements
Kubernetes 1.26 includes a total of 37 enhancements. The Kubernetes maintainers also announced that twelve features are being deprecated or removed. One major change is that this is the first release published in the new registry.k8s.io image registry. The container registry was changed in the previous release. The new version has many storage improvements including … continue reading
ITOps Times open source project of the week: Aiven
The team at Aiven, the open-source cloud data platform, has announced a complete open-source streaming ecosystem for Apache Kafka. This is intended to deliver a robust and real-time data ecosystem with the latest editions of its beta service of Aiven for Apache Flink. “As a leader in the open source community, Aiven is on a … continue reading
Gartner discovers top trends impacting infrastructure and operations for 2023
Today at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, Gartner announced the trends that will have a heightened impact on infrastructure and operations in 2023. The first is secure Access Service Edge (SASE), a single-vendor product that works as an integrative service to enable digital transformation. SASE connects and secures customers, devices, and … continue reading
Report: IT teams need to step up to play their part in sustainability initiatives
A number of companies are making commitments to sustainability, with 78% of respondents to a recent survey saying it is a priority. But in order to meet those goals, IT will play a key role. This is according to the report “Drivers of Change: Pure Storage IT Sustainability Impact Survey 2022.” It surveyed 1,000 sustainability … continue reading
IT leaders must keep moving forward to keep pace with business goals
IT leaders need to keep moving forward by adopting new technologies and practices to keep pace with what the business needs to execute. That was the overarching theme of the keynote at the Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the talk, Gartner analysts Roger Williams, Dennis … continue reading
Micro Focus announces HCMX FinOps Express to help companies optimize cloud spend
Micro Focus announced the release of Hybrid Cloud Management X (HCMX) FinOps Express, which is a SaaS service designed to help companies reduce their cloud spend by providing management of cloud investments. “Among many reasons that organizations move workloads to the cloud is to reduce data center costs, but many organizations do not realize the … continue reading
Argo graduates from CNCF Incubator following massive community growth
Just a week after it announced the graduation of the Flux project, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) revealed that another of its incubating projects is graduating: Argo. Argo is a set of Kubernetes-native tools for deploying and running applications using GitOps. It was first created at Applatix, which was later acquired by Intuit. The … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Finch
Finch is an open-source client for building, running, and publishing Linux containers, created by Amazon. Along with the client, Finch also provides a curated set of open-source Components, such as Lima, nerdctl, containerd, and BuildKit. According to Amazon, in its study of the available open source tooling available, it was impressed by Lima, which has … continue reading
Flux graduates from the CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Flux project, which is a set of continuous and progressive delivery solutions for Kubernetes, graduated from the CNCF Incubator. Graduating from the Incubator is an important milestone for any project, as it signifies that the project is now part of the CNCF-hosted projects and is officially … continue reading
Logz.io 360 released to help with better Kubernetes observability
Logz.io revealed its Open 360 Platform at AWS re:Invent 2022 to deliver to help observability teams focus on, and pay for, only the most critical data. Users will gain centralized, cross-stack Kubernetes observability to an expanded data collection agent. Open 360 includes Logz.io Kubernetes 360 to deliver unified observability for Kubernetes environments, Logz.io Telemetry Collector … continue reading
Rafay launches cost management tool for Kubernetes
Rafay launched its Cost Management Service that is integrated into its Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), enabling cloud cost optimization across clusters located in public clouds and on-premise data centers. The launch comes as a way to help companies who struggle with Kubernetes resource consumption and reporting how spend is allocated across internal departments. With the … continue reading
Edge computing posing new opportunities for IT
As Edge Computing adoption continues to soar there is also very high demand for Edge Computing solutions that support mission critical applications and data. Recent research found that mission critical Edge Computing adoption will increase by more than 45 percent and be a $10 billion market by 2026 – it’s beginning to follow a pattern … continue reading
Windows Subsystem for Linux now generally available in Microsoft Store
Microsoft has made the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) generally available in the Microsoft Store, removing the preview label from the store listing. WSL enables developers to install a Linux distribution on their Windows machines, With the latest release, WSL is now available in the Microsoft Store on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. This … continue reading
