Amazon announced the availability of EC2 C7g instances
Amazon announced the release of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) C7g instances that are powered by AWS-designed Graviton3 Processors. The new C7g instances offer up to 25% better performance than Graviton2 processors, according to the company. Customers can now more efficiently run web servers, load balancers, and batch processing to electronic design automation (EDA), and … continue reading
EraStreams launches to bring down observability costs using no-code
Era Software has announced a new no-code observability data pipeline called EraStreams. IT teams can use it to integrate, transform, and route observability data to EraSearch or other third-party monitoring tools. According to the company, siloed monitoring tools that are leftover from the pre-cloud era can’t keep up with the volume of data that is … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: StackRox
This week, Red Hat announced that Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes is now available as an open-source project called StackRox. Red Hat acquired StackRox in February 2021 to strengthen container security. Red Hat had an ongoing relationship with StackRox before the acquisition, specifically around Red Hat OpenShift, the application development and deployment platform … continue reading
KubeCon EU 2022: D2iQ and GitLab partnership, Sysdig Advisor, and more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 has been taking place in Valencia, Spain this week. As usual, a number of companies in the Kubernetes and cloud native spaces have taken the opportunity to announce news at the event. Here are some of the highlights from this week: D2iQ announces partnership with GitLab Customers will now be … continue reading
CNCF and Linux Foundation announce the Prometheus Certified Associate exam
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and The Linux Foundation today announced their new exam to test foundational knowledge and skills using Prometheus, the Prometheus Certified Associate exam (PCA). The PCA is a pre-professional certification intended for engineers or application developers that have an interest in observability and monitoring within the Prometheus ecosystem. The exam … continue reading
Solo.io expands Gloo Mesh with Cilium integration
Solo.io announced the integration of Cilium networking into its Gloo Mesh platform to provide a complete application-networking solution for companies’ cloud-native digital transformation efforts. Now, the product portfolio unites Cilium, the open-source container-networking solution, with the service mesh Istio. “We know most companies have a wide range of applications that require different networking layers, services, … continue reading
Qualys launches new solution for remediating threats efficiently
Security and compliance company Qualys has announced the launch of Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation. This solution allows security teams to orchestrate workflows, secure applications, and take action to remediate threats. According to the company, traditionally when threats arise, typical responses include creating new processes and custom scripts that then need to be rolled out … continue reading
Kasten by Veeam K10 v5 helps with shifting data security further left
The new Kasten K10 V5.0 offers enhanced Kubernetes security, streamlined CI/CD pipelines, and ecosystem advances to help apply shift-left security to data protection. “Our latest release remains focused on helping enterprises minimize the financial impact caused by attacks on data and cloud applications. At the same time, we’re also supporting developer needs for backup solutions … continue reading
AWS disaster recovery strategies
Disasters are unavoidable and can cause irreparable damage to enterprises’ technical infrastructures. For organizations, this damage can turn out to be more monetary and reputational as they can lose data and clients. Thus, organizations usually have backup servers and recovery data centers as the first-response strategy. However, building resilience in this way is both costly … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NGINX Config
NGINX Config is a configuration generator built by DigitalOcean to make it easier to configure NGINX. NGINX is a web server that also works as a load balancer, an HTTP cache, and a reverse proxy. According to DigitalOcean, NGINX itself was started in 2002 by Igor Sysoev to help solve the C10K problem, which was … continue reading
Komodor raises $42 million Series B to build a continuous reliability platform for Kubernetes
Komodor, the continuous reliability platform dedicated to Kubernetes, today announced a $42 Million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global with participation from Felicis and existing investors Accel, NFX Capital, OldSlip Group, Pitango First, and Vine Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to $67 Million since launching out of stealth less than a year … continue reading
CSA releases guidelines for reducing security risk in healthcare
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) issued best practices for healthcare organizations to mitigate supply chain cyber risks in the Healthcare Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risk Management paper. “The move to the cloud and edge computing has expanded HDOs’ electronic perimeters, not only making it harder for them to secure their infrastructure but also making them more … continue reading
ServiceNow announces three new products
ServiceNow launched three new powerful products to advance digital business and drive innovation at scale. The first, Service Operations Workspace, offers tech services and operations teams a single space to manage work and to have shared visibility into issues. The second, App Engine Management Center (AEMC) provides structure and governance for low-code citizen developers. The … continue reading
Red Hat Summit: Security innovations, RHEL 9, and Cloud Services portfolio updates
Red Hat Summit 2022 began today and will continue through tomorrow. The two day, open-source event features expert speakers discussing the latest news and announcements within the community. The summit can be attended in person, virtually, and on demand and brings attendees technical presentations on the topics most relevant to their careers. Here are some … continue reading
