ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium
This week’s highlighted project is one of the newest additions to the CNCF. Last week at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2021, the foundation announced that its Technical Oversight Committee had voted to accept Cilium as an incubating project. Cilium provides networking, security, and observability for cloud native environments. It also provides load balancing between application workloads. … continue reading
Vapor IO’s INZONE Program launched to accelerate 4.0 applications
Vapor IO, the company that created the intelligent infrastructure platform Kinetic Grid, launched INZONE, a program to accelerate industry 4.0 transformation. The first Las Vegas INZONE will host applications and services designed to benefit manufacturers, retailers, hospitals, hotels, convention centers, casinos, telecom service providers, and other nearby businesses, as well as to local governmental entities … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Honeycomb’s Series C; LogDNA Agent 3.3; Graylog Security
The observability company Honeycomb has announced that it closed a $50 million Series C funding round. The round was led by Insight Partners with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Headline, Storm Ventures, Industry Ventures, and NextWorld Capital. It will use the new funding to work on delivering more features, launching customer programs and outreach programs, … continue reading
ServiceNow introduces new messaging service for end-to-end issue resolution
With the introduction of a new messaging service, powered by Twilio’s platform, ServiceNow hopes to better connect organizations. “COVID reinforced the importance of putting the customer first, which is why today’s organizations must deliver digital experiences that are seamless and effortless for customers,” said John Ball, SVP and GM of customer workflows at ServiceNow. “With … continue reading
HashiConf Global: What’s on the roadmap for Terraform
HashiCorp’s annual conference HashiConf Global started today, and after a keynote where new and upcoming products that developers and operators could get excited about were discussed, the company’s vice president of engineering, Paul Hinze, joined the stage to share some recent developments for the company’s flagship product Terraform, as well as new features on the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Splunk updates; JumpCloud Series F; vFunction Series A
Splunk has announced several updates to its observability portfolio, spanning the products Splunk APM, Splunk RUM, Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, Splunk Log Observer, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, and Splunk IT Service Intelligence. According to the company, these updates will help provide increased visibility, thus leading to improved performance, productivity, and innovation. “Observability at its core is a … continue reading
Report: Biometric authentication perceived as most secure login method
The FIDO Alliance has released its Online Authentication Barometer in order to provide the industry with insights into the state of online authentication, and it revealed that biometric authentication is the second most popular authentication method behind passwords. Biometric authentication means that a person uses something like their fingerprints or a scan of their face … continue reading
ManageEngine announces new endpoint management capabilities
ManageEngine announced the addition of data loss prevention for endpoints, anti-ransomware and endpoint compliance capabilities to its unified endpoint management (UEM) solution, Desktop Central. This follows a 500% spike in ransomware attacks since the move to remote work last year, according to a Bitdefender report. Also, ManageEngine’s 2021 Digital Readiness Survey found that 83% of … continue reading
CSNF aims to solve challenges of consuming alerts from multiple cloud providers
Technologists from a number of different companies have come together to develop a solution for creating multi-cloud security notifications. The result is the Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) Decorator, the first public demo of which will take place at ONUG Fall ‘21 next week. According to a document released by the ONUG Collaborative Automated Cloud … continue reading
Crowdstrike launches Humio Community Edition
Crowdstrike launched a free Humio Community Edition to bring the power of streaming log management to a wider range of users. The community edition allows users to ingest 16 GB of data per day and retain the data for up to seven days. Users will receive ongoing access to the data and the offering does … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: New Relic I/O
The observability company New Relic launched New Relic Observability (I/O), which is an open-source ecosystem of quickstarts. It hopes that the catalogue will empower software engineers to instrument, dashboard and alert their technology stack. The company found that while most engineers and developers are familiar with observability, there’s a huge gap in adoption with only … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell’s edge innovations; CAST AI Series A; Oracle joins ONUG Collaborative
Dell has announced a number of innovations across its edge infrastructure portfolio. Updates encompass Dell EMC VxRail satellite nodes, the Litmus Industrial IoT edge platform, Dell EMC Edge Gateway, Dell EMC Streaming Data Platform, and Latitude 5430 Rugged and Latitude 7330 Rugged Extreme. “The edge is technology’s next great frontier, and it’s all around us, … continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021: GitLab Operator; Falco updates; and Red Hat OpenShift latest version
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 kicked off earlier this week, and the event has resulted in a number of Kubernetes and cloud-native companies announcing updates to their platforms. Here are a few highlights: GitLab Operator now available The GitLab Operator allows developers to run instances of GitLab on Kubernetes platforms, like Red Hat OpenShift. … continue reading
Auth0 now available on Microsoft Azure
Auth0 announced that it launched its Auth0 Identity Platform on Microsoft Azure to unlock a secure cloud deployment option for organizations seeking strategic fit with their technology stack. Auth0’s identity platform provides organizations with tools to support security, compliance, and data residency that apply to them. Organizations requiring data residency options can take advantage of … continue reading
