ITOps Times news digest: LogDNA variable retention, Cloudian announces Red Hat OpenShift support, and Esper raises $60 million in Series C
LogDNA has announced an early access release of its new variable retention feature. Variable retention allows users to save logs in LogDNA’s UI only while they’re relevant, which allows them to ingest new types of data and keep costs down. Users can set rules by defining a LogDNA search syntax that will match logs and … continue reading
Report: IT teams should make more investments in end-user experience
In order to deliver the technology experiences employees need in order to stay productive, IT teams need to invest not just in tools, but in end-user experience. According to a new report from Forrester titled “Build the Foundation of Proactive Technology Support,” many operations teams are transforming the way they service internal customers. They are … continue reading
Infrastructure as Code: The case for continuous delivery
The adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has grown rapidly over the past few years. Previously, IT teams had to constantly provision cloud resources to run applications efficiently, being mindful of over-provisioning and wasting resources. This manual approach was a relic of the pre-cloud era that mimicked in-house data center provisioning, and doesn’t match the … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Trace Compass
Eclipse Trace Compass is an open-source application to solve performance and reliability issues by reading and analyzing logs or traces of a system. The goal of the project is to provide views, graphs, metrics, and more to help extract useful information from traces in a way that is more user-friendly and informative than huge text … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Kasten K10 V4.5, Linkerd 2.11, and NeuVector’s Kubernetes Configuration Assessment Tool
The Kubernetes data management platform Kasten K10 V4.5 is now available. The latest version focused on improving the out-of-the-box capabilities, expanding edge features, and broadening ecosystem support. “Current Kubernetes data management tools often require extensive expertise and set up time when first deployed, and lack process automation for managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting within an environment,” … continue reading
Ansible Automation Platform 2 released to drive better cloud-native automation
Red Hat announced the release of Ansible Automation Platform 2 to drive cloud-native automation and help developers become automators. The latest version of the platform adds self-contained automation capabilities while shifting automation more deeply into the application development lifecycle. The platform is now fully restructured for a hybrid cloud-native world and it makes it easier … continue reading
Dell updates ProSupport suite and security capabilities
Dell announced added capabilities to ProSupport Suite for PCs to make IT support easier and more customizable through the use of AI and new endpoint security offerings. The enhancements include greater IT visibility, remote remediation, actionable recommendations, and automated custom update catalog management and deployment capabilities. “If your PCs aren’t productive, your employees aren’t either,” … continue reading
Report: More than half of companies expect IT spending to increase in 2022
Despite the pandemic, 61% of companies expect their revenues to increase significantly in 2022, prompting increased tech spending budgets for those companies. This is according to the 2022 State of IT report by Spiceworks Ziff Davis, a global marketplace that connects technology buyers and sellers with actionable and precise intent data. The company conducted a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Pure Fusion from Pure Storage, Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, and Sysdig and Google Cloud announce partnership
Pure Storage has announced the release of Pure Fusion, which is a self-service, autonomous storage solution. Pure Fusion pools storage arrays into availability zones and automates tasks like workload placement, workload mobility, and fleet rebalancing. Pure Fusion also includes an API framework that operations teams and end users can use to interact with storage in … continue reading
How to keep your cloud bill manageable
Cloud has many advantages, and one motivating factor that caused many to make the migration is the promise of cost savings. But even though cloud can cost less than on-premises data centers, it’s easy for companies to let their cloud bill get away from them. According to Asim Razzaq, CEO of Yotascale, there are a … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Notary
Notary is an open-source project that is trying to make the internet more secure. It consists of a server and client that can be used to run and interact with trusted collections. According to the project’s GitHub page, most of the web relies on TLS to secure communications to a web server, but if that … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: CNCF End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, Cymulate’s new security updates, and Barracuda email protection updates
The CNCF has announced the release of its End User Technology Radar on DevSecOps, which provides recommendations on emerging technologies. It groups technologies into three categories: Assess, Trial, and Adopt. The Assess category includes Cilium, Harness, Sonatype Nexus, HashiCorp Sentinel, GitHub Actions, Linkerd, and Trivy. XRay is in the Trial category. Adopt includes technologies such … continue reading
Report: Sustainability is playing a large part in IT decisions
When an organization is looking to partner with a vendor, there are many factors to consider, and recently, sustainability has been added to that list. Many organizations are now opting to spend more money in order to protect the planet and make more environmentally conscious choices. CloudBolt Industry Insights, the research extension of CloudBolt Software, … continue reading
NS1 announces DDoS overage protection
The application traffic intelligence and automation provider NS1 announced DDoS Overage Protection, which prevents unexpected cost increases in the event of usage spikes due to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against NS1’s Managed DNS. The number of DDoS attacks has jumped by 200% since last year and attack intensity grew by 300%. “Business resilience is synonymous … continue reading
