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
Catchpoint introduces first digital experience score for faster IT resolution
Catchpoint today announced the Catchpoint Digital Experience Score, which combines the network and application experience and how the user’s device is performing all in one. The metric provides visibility into all necessary components of the service delivery chain that account for true end-user experience, according to the company. “If you have no real visibility into … continue reading
5 tips for securely adopting infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as code (IaC) allows us to design, build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure in code, rather than clicking through a cloud provider’s UI or having a long list of CLI commands. IaC—especially declarative IaC—simplifies the process of configuring a resource by defining the end state of what you want to be created and the … continue reading
Kubernetes 1.22 release
The new Kubernetes 1.22 release includes 53 enhancements – 13 of which graduated to stable and 24 of which are moving to beta. In April of this year, the Kubernetes release cadence was officially changed from four to three releases yearly. This is the first longer-cycle release related to that change. One major feature that … continue reading
