Reach your Future State Faster with Enterprise Automation
Groundhog Day is a memorable movie. Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a TV weatherman trapped in a time loop, forced to relive February 2nd repeatedly. IT operations can sometimes feel like that. Scroll back 15 years, and scheduling managers were juggling between different screens, running jobs on multiple machines – each with its own scheduler. Today, as … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Zabbix
Zabbix is an enterprise-class, open-source distributed monitoring solution released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. With it, users can get a single pane of glass view of their whole IT infrastructure stack including network, server, cloud, application, and service monitoring. Zabbix is scalable to any infrastructure whether on-premise or in the cloud. … continue reading
Qualys adds EASM capabilities to its platform
Qualys announced that it is adding External Attack Surface Management (EASM) capabilities to the Qualys cloud platform to enable security and IT teams to automatically assess their risk posture. Many factors such as digital transformation, the increased adoption of cloud and IoT, a growing remote workforce and talent shortage have led to a rise in … continue reading
Rafay Systems announces updates for self-service Kubernetes
Rafay Systems launched a new capability that provides developers self-service for faster application deployments with the necessary guardrails that enterprises require. With Rafay’s Kubernetes Operations Platform (KOP), platform teams establish Kubernetes standards and best practices while freeing developers to rapidly innovate, according to Rafay Systems. According to Rafay, finding the right balance between standardization and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Chain-bench
Chain-bench is an open source tool created by Aqua Security for auditing software security supply chains. It is based on the CIS Software Suppy Chain benchmark and is part of the Trivy family of solutions. It audits the entire software development life cycle to look for risks from coding to production. According to Aqua Security, … continue reading
Teleport 10 released with Passwordless Access
The identity-based infrastructure access management provider Teleport announced Teleport 10 which features Passwordless Access, a single sign-on infrastructure access solution that completely eliminates the need for usernames, passwords, private keys, and other secrets. Teleport 10 offers scalable identity-based access while greatly reducing the probability of lost, shared or stolen credentials. Teleport Passwordless Access is based … continue reading
Pairing DevOps with ITSM
Bringing IT service management (ITSM) together with DevOps and Agile development approaches is a smart way to innovate. While Agile can be vital to instituting a nimbler and more flexible ITSM function or operational management style, DevOps helps you work toward your goals in the timeliest manner across the entire ecosystem. ITSM, when stoic and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium Service Mesh
Isovalent, the company that builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure, announced the availability of Cilium Service Mesh. Users will be able to run the service mesh completely without sidecars while supporting various control plane options. Cilium Service Mesh complements the existing Istio integration based on sidecars that … continue reading
Dynatrace combines its log analytics and user experience analytics capabilities
Dynatrace, the software intelligence company, announced that it has unified its AI-powered log analytics with its digital experience monitoring (DEM) capabilities, enhancing its analytics capabilities for modern multi cloud environments. The goal of this combination is to enable development teams to automatically gain deeper insights into specific user journeys by connecting logs to the user … continue reading
Report: over 50% of organizations prioritize security over user experience
Broadcom Software, provider of wireless LAN infrastructure solutions, today released the results of its survey on avoiding tradeoffs between security and user experience. The findings of the survey revealed that over half of organizations value security above the experience of end-users, often at the expense of productivity and customer satisfaction. The struggle that organizations face … continue reading
Report: IT workers are spending majority of their time on tasks that don’t contribute to key business outcomes
Sixty-eight percent of IT teams’ time is spent working on tasks that do not actually contribute to key business outcomes. This is according to Digital Enterprise Journal’s latest report, “24 Key Areas Shaping IT Performance Markets in 2022.” The report contains responses from over 3,300 companies. The top performing 20% of survey respondents say their … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Paladin Cloud
Paladin Cloud is a new open-source security platform aimed at helping teams find the gaps in their cloud security. According to the company behind the project, 95% of cloud services are misconfigured, and those misconfigurations have the potential to lead to a breach. Paladin Cloud’s Policy Management Plane offers visibility into cloud assets through a … continue reading
Canonical releases Ubuntu image for Google Cloud’s Tau T2A VMs
Google Cloud and Canonical, the company that releases Ubuntu, have announced that they have released a new Ubuntu image to be used for the preview of Google Cloud’s Tau T2A virtual machines (VMs). Tau T2A is Google Cloud’s VM for running on Arm architectures. “With the launch of T2A VMs on Google Cloud and corresponding … continue reading
Shoreline.io announces open source solutions library to deliver self-healing infrastructure
The Incident Automation company Shoreline.io announced a collection of Op Packs that make it easier to diagnose and repair common infrastructure incidents in production cloud environments called the Shoreline open source solutions library. The more than 35 free Op Packs cover issues such as JVM memory leaks, filling disks, rogue processes, and stuck Kubernetes pods. … continue reading
