ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Istio Ambient Mesh
Cloud-native company Solo.io yesterday announced a new open-source project aimed at accelerating adoption of the service mesh Istio. The project, Istio Ambient Mesh, provides a new architecture for Istio that offers greater flexibility, security, and performance. “Istio is the future of service mesh, and Ambient Mesh brings a whole new level of flexibility for companies … continue reading
5 Ways to Prevent a Kubernetes Catastrophe
Kubernetes is a relatively new technology, and there is a limited pool of engineers capable of configuring and managing a deployment. A large percentage of Kubernetes deployments fail because organizations underestimate the complexity of Kubernetes and overestimate their ability to implement and manage a Kubernetes environment – a recent study showed that 100% of companies surveyed … continue reading
Gartner infrastructure conferences returning in person
“Empowering the Anywhere Business” is the theme for this year’s 2022 Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, returning in-person for the first time since 2019. Businesses across the globe are challenged to bring value and innovation wherever their customers are, according to Gartner’s events team. Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders have a critical role … continue reading
Bitwarden secures $100 million in funding
The password manager Bitwarden has announced $100 million in new funding from the equity firm PSG, with participation from existing investor Battery Ventures. It will use the money to accelerate product and company growth to meet the growing needs of its customers. According to Bitwarden, the switch to remote work and therefore the further mixing … continue reading
Is Your Data Bathtub About to Overflow?
Over the past seven years, we’ve seen Kubernetes become the de facto platform for building modern applications. With this shift, application architectures have become increasingly distributed, dynamic, and modular. As a byproduct, logging data has exploded – depending on the company, anywhere from one terabyte to multiple petabytes of data can be generated each day. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Clusterpedia
Clusterpedia is an encyclopedia of Kubernetes clusters that can help users synchronize, search for, and control multi-cluster resources. The inspiration behind its name is Wikipedia, according to the developers behind the project on GitHub. It is a CNCF sandbox project that includes support for complex searches, filters, sorting, paging, and more. Clusterpedia also offers support … continue reading
Pluralsight offering free access to popular cloud computing certification programs
The upskilling platform Pluralsight has announced a new free offering aimed at closing the cloud skills gap. According to the company’s State of Upskilling Report, 40% of tech leaders said that cloud computing was their top skill concern. There is currently a high demand for workers with these skills. Through the end of 2022, video … continue reading
TidalScale announces upgrade that greatly reduces server failure rates
The TidalScale 4.1 update will dramatically improve overall system reliability, availability, and serviceability to reduce server failure rates. “The cost of server downtime, whether planned or unplanned, has never been higher. Enterprise customers are experiencing server hardware failures at a rate never seen before, often resulting in significant financial losses for their business,” said Gary … continue reading
IBM and VMware partner to support modernization initiatives in highly regulated industries
IBM and VMware have announced a new partnership that will help their joint customers modernize mission-critical workloads and improve their hybrid cloud environments. They believe that this partnership will be especially beneficial to customers in highly regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, and public sector. Companies in those industries wish to modernize their infrastructure but … continue reading
Report: Nearly half of companies rely on outdated backup and recovery infrastructure
Nearly half of companies are using outdated, legacy backup and recovery infrastructure to manage and protect their data, according to a survey commissioned by data management company Cohesity. The survey of more than 2,000 IT and SecOps professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand was conducted this April and was … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Service Mesh Interface
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) provides a standard interface for service meshes on Kubernetes, a basic feature set for common service mesh use cases, and the flexibility to support new service mesh capabilities over time. The specification defines a common standard that can be implemented by various providers and it follows the CNCF code of conduct. … continue reading
Workato launches tool to help cut down on unnecessary IT costs
The automation platform Workato has announced its Software License Optimization Accelerator to help companies reduce unnecessary IT spending. It does this by analyzing application usage, identifying underutilized licenses, and initiating optimization processes. According to Workato, the current economic situation has been a concern on leaders’ minds, causing them to start thinking about areas where costs … continue reading
Linkerd 2.12 now available
The team at Linkerd, the service mesh for Kubernetes, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.12. With this, route-based policy is introduced to Linkerd, enabling users to define and enforce authorization policies based on HTTP routes in a zero-trust way. These policies are built on top of Linkerd’s workload identities, which are secured by mutual … continue reading
3 reasons you need continuous performance validation for your SD-WAN
Traditional networks have typically relied on multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) circuits to connect sites to data centers – it’s a classic routing technique in private telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next based on labels. However, the rapid adoption of cloud-based applications creates an MPLS bottleneck as network traffic is increasingly … continue reading
