Five ways IT can combat the global chip shortage
If you’re an IT administrator, or running a service desk, no doubt you’ve tired of fielding requests for new laptops or other devices and having to remind your colleagues there is a global chip shortage that has basically thrown the electronic goods supply chain completely out of whack. With shortages projected to continue through at … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: PowerfulSeal
PowerfulSeal is a testing tool for Kubernetes clusters built by Bloomberg and inspired by Netflix’s Chaos Monkey. The tool, which was first presented at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017, is aimed specifically at Kubernetes, and includes the ability to describe the objects running in each container so that it knows precisely which things it … continue reading
Self-service IT helps eliminate many operations bottlenecks
Running the IT operations of a company is no easy job. Not only do operations teams have to maintain all of the company’s systems, they also have to ensure positive user experiences, resolve incidents quickly, and help keep developers productive. Luckily, there are ways to ease the burden on IT teams. In a webinar on … continue reading
Report: 74% of companies not achieving true observability despite massive investments
If you need any more proof that you need observability in your systems, look no further than last week’s large AWS outage. It took down many large websites, and was a great reminder that you need to know what your systems are doing at all times in order to be able to properly respond when … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Second Log4j vulnerability detected; IBM and Samsung make new semiconductor breakthrough; Linux Foundation announces new IT course
A second vulnerability has been detected in Log4j that renders previous mitigations for versions 2.7.0 to 2.14.1 potentially useless, according to LunaSec. The security company explained that your systems may be vulnerable if you only enabled the “formatMsgNoLookups” flag or set “%m{nolookups} when setting attacker controlled data in ThreadContext. It recommends updating to at least … continue reading
The tradeoffs of moving to the cloud can be alleviated with a hybrid approach
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, but massive outages, such as last week’s AWS outage have highlighted that there are indeed some tradeoffs that occur when moving to the cloud, such as their applications being unavailable when their cloud provider experiences an outage. Even though systems are designed for reliability — especially at the … continue reading
Log4j vulnerability is “absolutely brutal”
A major vulnerability was discovered Thursday in the technology Log4j, which is a popular logging package in Java. According to Ashan Dabirsiaghi, co-founder and chief scientist at Contrast Security, Log4j is the most popular logging framework for Java. Essentially any Java application that logs data uses it, and it is used by millions of applications. … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Teleport 8; Dazz raises $60 million; IBM SevOne NPM
Teleport has announced the latest version of its Access Plane solution, Teleport 8. Teleport 8 enables passwordless access to Windows desktop and Windows Server. Customers can also now use it to implement zero-trust connectivity to their infrastructure. According to the company, Teleport 8 allows a company’s open network footprint to be reduced down to a … continue reading
Transposit announces advanced ticketing capabilities to modernize ITSM
Connected workflow company Transposit announced Activities, which is a new feature that applies automation to ITSM processes. It provides a single source of truth across issues, incidents, and requests. Every action taken by both human and machine throughout any activity within the Transposit Timeline is captured through auto-tickets. Data and actionability are brought neatly together to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cloud Hypervisor Project
The Linux Foundation announced that it will host the Cloud Hypervisor project, which delivers a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) for modern Cloud workloads. The project is supported by Alibaba, ARM, ByteDance, Intel and Microsoft. The project is written in Rust and focuses on security features such as CPU, memory and device hot plug; support for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Ansible Automation on Microsoft Azure; Cloudflare’s new partnerships; and HCL Technologies and KloudGin partner up
Red Hat announced that its Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat believes this addition will give customers greater return on investment for automation by being able to leverage Azure services, such as compute, network, and storage. “By integrating open source automation technologies, such as Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.23 introduces general availability of IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networking
The latest version of Kubernetes is now available. Kubernetes 1.23 includes 47 enhancements, 11 of which are stable, 17 of which are in beta, and 19 of which are in alpha. In addition, the release team deprecated a feature in this release. The deprecated feature is FlexVolume, which was used to write volumes into Kubernetes. … continue reading
Broadcom to acquire AppNeta to bolster network performance monitoring
Broadcom announced its intent to acquire the privately held company AppNeta, a SaaS-based network performance monitoring solution for the distributed enterprise that provides IT teams with precise, end-to-end visibility into network performance. With AppNeta’s SaaS-based solution, IT and Network Ops teams at distributed enterprises can detect issues that affect network and business-critical cloud application performance, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Equinix Metal updates; AgileBlue raises $2.25 million; HP releases patches for printer vulnerabilities
Equinix has announced new updates to Equinix Metal that will allow organizations to build and scale their SaaS offerings, modernize infrastructure, and facilitate hybrid multicloud architectures. New features include the availability of next gen processors like 3rd Gen AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra, and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors; workload optimized servers; Nutanix Cloud Platform … continue reading
