wasmCloud joins CNCF as Sandbox project
The WebAssembly pioneer Cosmonic today announced that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has accepted its universal application runtime for building cloud-native applications with WebAssembly that can run anywhere as its latest Sandbox project. The key features of the runtime called wasmCloud include faster development time and lower lifetime maintenance, high portability, near-native performance, a … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Solo.io updates Gloo Mesh Enterprise, NS1 launches NetBox Cloud, and Arista EOS updates
Solo.io has announced updates to Gloo Mesh Enterprise. According to Solo.io, the latest updates simplify the process of setting up multi-cluster and multi-mesh service mesh environments. Gloo Mesh Enterprise now includes Gloo Mesh Gateway, which is an API gateway. Other new features include observability improvements, improved security certificate management, added N-4 version support for Istio, … continue reading
Palo Alto Networks launched Cortex XDR for Cloud
Palo Alto Networks launched Cortex XDR for Cloud 3.0, which automates threat detection and investigation across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity, from a single console. The third-generation version offers even broader protections by detecting malicious user activities and insider threats through the analysis of identity data. In addition, Cortex XDR 3.0 offers security teams forensic … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Rook
Rook provides cloud-native file, block, and object storage for Kubernetes. According to the project’s website, “Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services.” Rook automates tasks that would normally be handled by a storage administrator, such as deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and resource management. It can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow and Citrix integration, SUSE Professional Services on AWS, and Syncron and Mize merge
ServiceNow and Citrix have announced a new Virtual Agent integration that allows IT teams to more quickly resolve incidents. The new integration combines the power of ServiceNow ITSM with the Citrix ITSM Connector app, which allows IT to automate desktop session reset actions within Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop services. “Like much of the workforce, … continue reading
SUSE receives Common Criteria certification
SUSE’s flagship Linux distribution, Linux Enterprise, has earned the Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification for IBM Z, Arm, and x86-64 platforms. This signifies compliance with the most demanding security requirements for mission-critical infrastructure, according to SUSE. The exponential growth in IoT and edge devices has prompted countries to raise their compliance requirements for infrastructure providers, … continue reading
Pepperdata adds GPU monitoring capabilities
Data management company Pepperdata has added observability capabilities for GPUs that are running big data applications, such as Spark or Kubernetes. According to the company, workloads that utilize large amounts of data need GPUs, which were initially created to accelerate graphics rendering. GPUs tend to be resource and cost intensive, which means they need to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Barracuda RMM updates, Quest Software updates disaster recovery capabilities, and Avaya and Microsoft integration
Security company Barracuda has announced updates to its remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform Barracuda RMM. Key updates include integrations with Windows Defender, updates to Microsoft and third-party patch management, tighter integration with Barracuda Intronis Backup, and ServiceNow Service Desk integration. “The continued enhancements we are making to Barracuda RMM are part of our ongoing … continue reading
IBM and Verizon to build 5G testbed in Texas for Industry 4.0 advancement
IBM and Verizon have been working together on advancing 5G and have recently announced a new initiative to reach that goal. The two companies are creating a testbed environment at the IBM Industry Solution Lab in Coppell, TX to develop and test 5G-enabled use cases for Industry 4.0 applications. Customers of the lab will be … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Apache Libcloud
Apache Libcloud is a Python library for interacting with many of the popular cloud service providers using a unified API. It helps users avoid vendor lock-in, uses the same API to talk to many different providers, has more than 30 supported providers total, and contains six main APIs. Libcloud supports Python version 3.5 and onwards. … continue reading
CloudFabrix and Verge.io announce strategic partnership
CloudFabrix announced a strategic partnership with Verge.io to provide a complete data center transformation. CloudFabrix is a provider of the AIOps and Observability platform that scales and accelerates digital IT life cycle planning and autonomous IT operations, while Verge.io is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company. The partnership will combine CloudFabrix’s AI-based Asset Intelligence and … continue reading
Does Change Intelligence Deliver on AIOps?
“AIOps” is a term that has been buzzing around for a while, which is short form for “Artificial Intelligence Operations” (much more of a mouthful), and encompasses within it two dominant tech trends: The data explosion in recent years which lays the foundation for extracting intelligent, models, patterns and recurring trends; and The significant progress … continue reading
DH2i launches free DxEnterprise & DxOdyssey Developer Editions
DH2i announced the launch of developer editions of its DxEnterprise and DxOdyssey software, which offer free licenses for non-production use and trials. DxEnterprise enables users to manage and ensure high availability (HA) for a variety of workloads such as SQL Server at the instance level and also SQL Server availability groups inside or outside containers. … continue reading
Kong Mesh 1.4 released with new load balancing pattern
Kong released version 1.4 of its enterprise-grade service mesh built on top of CNCF’s Kuma and Envoy. The new release of Kong Mesh 1.4 enables modern, decentralized, and portable load balancing that works across every cloud, including Kubernetes and VMs, and local development machines that improve accuracy and replicability, according to the company. The company … continue reading
