NS1 launches Traffic Analysis Dashboards to provide visibility into application traffic
NS1 is providing IT teams with more information into their application traffic with the release of Traffic Analysis Dashboards within Pulsar Active Traffic Steering. The dashboards give metrics on availability, latency, and traffic distribution. This makes it easier for teams to monitor and optimize their application delivery and performance. According to NS1, latencies in performance-driven … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Platform9 Managed KubeVirt, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 renews FIPS 140-2, and Jamf Nation updates
Platform9 has announced the release of its Managed KubeVirt (PMK) platform. PMK will provide a unified platform for running virtual machines together with containers. Out-of-the-box capabilities include cloud-managed upgrades, automated monitoring for VMs, SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK support, user-friendly SaaS console, bare metal performance, 99.9% update SLA, and more. “Traditional virtualization solutions are expensive and managing … continue reading
Auvik Networks secures $250 million growth investment
Auvik, an award-winning provider of cloud-based network management software, today announced that it has secured a US$250 million investment from Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive businesses. The investment is expected to accelerate Auvik’s mission by funding product development, segment expansion, geographic reach, and other strategic growth initiatives. Auvik … continue reading
Google Cloud now indicates which regions have the lowest carbon impact
Google Cloud now indicates the regions with the lowest carbon impact inside Cloud Console location selectors for Cloud Run and Datastream. Regions that have a CFE percentage of at least 75% will be featured as a “Lowest CO2” region or a grid carbon intensity of no more than 200 gCO2eq/kWh.During pre-release tests, users were 19% … continue reading
Report: 94% of organizations have suffered from insider data breaches
A lot of focus is made on hardening systems from outside attacks, but threats from within the company shouldn’t be ignored. Results from Egress’ Insider Data Breach Survey 2021 showed that 94% of organizations have fallen victim to insider data breaches in the last year alone. The survey was conducted by Arlington Research on behalf … continue reading
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.3 released
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes offers tighter integration with the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform that fuses modern management capabilities with traditional and hybrid IT environments. The integration is designed to accelerate the automation and cohesion between cloud-native clusters, VMs and traditional infrastructure with streamlined tooling and coordination. RELATED TOPICS: Red Hat to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: TriggerMesh funding, Motorola Solutions acquires Openpath, and Cobalt Iron adds AWS support
Integration platform TriggerMesh has announced that it received a $5 million investment from Cisco Investments. It will use the funding to increase marketing, sales, and product delivery initiatives. “We are excited to collaborate with Cisco to bring integration into the cloud-native era,” said Mark R. Hinkle, CEO and co-founder of TriggerMesh. “Cisco has a footprint … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CFEngine
CFEngine is a configuration management system that can be used to automate and ensure availability, security, and compliance of applications and services. Key features include the ability to define configuration of an IT system, system maintenance, checking of system states, compliance, and real-time modifications or updates to the system. Machines with CFEngine installed will run … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: AWS’s security group rule IDs, Backblaze Computer Backup v8.0, and Rapid7’s InsightCloudSec
AWS has announced security group rule IDs, which are unique identifiers for security group rules. This simplifies CLI commands and allows security group rules to be tagged like other AWS resources. According to AWS, tags can be used to quickly identify a set of rules across multiple security groups. This new capability is now available … continue reading
FIDO Alliance creates new UX guidelines for passwordless authentication
Data breaches and cyberattacks are often the result of weak or stolen passwords. Developing an authentication system that doesn’t involve passwords will be the key to more secure systems. One organization trying to eliminate the need for passwords in favor of biometric logins in order to make ransomware attacks and widespread hacking more difficult is … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s predictive autoscaling, New Relic One + Azure Spring Cloud, and Taoglas acquires Smartsensor Technologies
Google Cloud has announced predictive autoscaling to automatically anticipate future infrastructure capacity needs. The new capability will create VMs when it predicts upcoming demand and provides enough time for applications to initialize in them. It makes these predictions based on an instance group’s CPU history. It also adjusts forecasts based on recurring load patterns. Customers … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Eclipse Fog05
Eclipse fog05 provides a virtualized infrastructure that allows for distributed computing, storage, control and networking functions closer to users along a cloud-to-thing continuum. Fog05 offers a set of abstractions to unify the compute, storage and communication fabric from end to end that enables this. It provides the same abstraction of an elastic compute but in … continue reading
Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model
Many people are excited about the new era of hybrid work, but a number of IT professionals have their concerns. While remote work has its benefits, workload complexity isn’t one of them; only 32% of IT professionals believe their jobs will get easier in a hybrid model. This is according to PagerDuty’s recently released The … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Verizon partners with IBM and Red Hat, HPE acquires Zerto, and Alluxio 2.6
Verizon has announced a new partnership with IBM and Red Hat. Together the companies will help Verizon deploy its 5G network on an open hybrid cloud platform. Verizon will be able to leverage the benefits of the open-source community while still retaining architectural control to speed the release of new features and offerings. “We all … continue reading
