Google joins O-RAN ALLIANCE
Google announced that it joined the O-RAN ALLIANCE, a worldwide community of mobile network operators, vendors, and research and academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry to help transform the telecommunications industry. RAN reduces the cost of ownership, scale, and overall complexity when it comes to mobile networks. The alliance works to … continue reading
Report: 85% of companies have yet to achieve full Kubernetes and cloud native adoption
Although companies have been adopting cloud native technologies at higher rates than ever before, 85% of companies have yet to fully cross the chasm to adoption when it comes to Kubernetes and cloud native. However, they are quickly moving in that direction. Nearly 78% of companies in Canonical’s Kubernetes and Cloud Native Operations Report had … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: HPE announces new 5G management capabilities, IBM announces new 5G automation software, and Dell’s HPC innovations
HPE has announced new capabilities for 5G management. The new solution brings together a new 5G capability in HPE Service Director with HPE 5G Automated Assurance. Together these capabilities provide a closed-loop system for managing 5G networks that reduces deployment risks. “To fully seize the opportunity presented by 5G and network slicing, network operators need … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cluster API
Cluster API is a Kubernetes sub-project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters. The project was started by the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Cluster Lifecycle to automate cluster lifecycle management for platform operators. At first, the SIG working group started kubeadm to address a set … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud’s Grafana plugin, NS1’s traffic automation platform, and Quantum and Supermicro collaboration
Google Cloud has announced updates to its Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana. It has added sample dashboards for Google Cloud services, a deeper link between Grafana and Google Cloud Monitoring, an improved query interface, and a new Monitoring Query Language (MQL) interface. “The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, … continue reading
NVIDIA partners with Equinix on AI LaunchPad
NVIDIA is trying to make it easier for companies to access NVIDIA-powered infrastructure to run their AI workloads on with the release of the NVIDIA AI LaunchPad. The NVIDIA AI LaunchPad will be delivered in collaboration with various cloud providers, the first of which will be Equinix. Equinix customers will now be able to develop … continue reading
CNCF End User Technology Radar shares recommendations for multicluster management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is trying to make it easier for companies to choose a multicluster management solution for their environments with the release of its fifth CNCF End User Technology Radar. The radar is a guide to emerging technologies that are chosen based on feedback from the CNCF End User Community. According … continue reading
Google Cloud launches new virtual machine family Tau VMs
Google Cloud announced a new virtual machine family, Tau VMs, that delivers price-performance for scale-out workloads. The first instance type in the Tau VM family, T2D, is based on Gen AMD EPYC processors and it enables the VMs to scale out workloads of any public cloud provider available today. According to Google, Tau VMs offer … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: PagerDuty updates, AWS CloudFormation registry, and DH2i’s DxEnterprise for Containers
PagerDuty has announced new capabilities such as PagerDuty Service Graph and updates to AIOps Event Intelligence, including the addition of change correlation and outlier incidents. It also announced two new add-ons to its platform: Runbook Actions and a new plan for customer service operations. Runbook Actions provides diagnostic and remediation automation. This helps IT teams … continue reading
Grafana Labs brings modern open source load testing to observability with acquisition of k6
On the final day of GrafanaCONline 2021, CEO Raj Dutt today announced Grafana Labs’ acquisition of k6, the Stockholm-based startup behind the open source load testing tool for engineering teams. With k6, Grafana Labs adds extensible testing to its open and composable Grafana observability stack. Together, Grafana Labs and k6 will work on an integrated offering as part … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: BLADE Framework
The Business Logic Attack Definition (BLADE) Framework is a knowledge base for security professionals. It can help them better understand the techniques used by attackers to exploit weaknesses in the business logic of web facing systems and help prevent bot attacks, which are becoming more common. “As MITRE Corporation have demonstrated with their ATT&CK matrices, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Foundries.io Series A funding, StreamNative Platform, and USB 3.2 Gen 1 Aegis Padlock SSD
Foundries.io, a provider of solutions for securing IoT and edge devices, has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by IQ Capital, with participation from Crane Venture Partners and Backed VC. It will use the funding to expand through talent recruitment and marketing initiatives. “The industry needs a new cloud … continue reading
Terraform reaches maturity and stability with 1.0 release
HashiCorp has announced a milestone release of its open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) software tool. Terraform 1.0 has been 10 years in the making and is a huge leap forward for the project in terms of interoperability, ease of updates and maintenance of automation workflows, the team explained. When the idea of Terraform was first … continue reading
Report: Cloud application monitoring remains the biggest challenge for SREs
Just over half of SREs (53%) said that the number one cloud application monitoring challenge is unified visibility across the stack. Organizations are looking toward AI and machine learning to solve these problems, but adoption of AIOps is slow. This is according to the 2021 SRE Report that was conducted by the digital experience monitoring … continue reading
