As part of a new partnership between TeamViewer and SAP, TeamViewer’s augmented reality-based workplace digitalization suite Frontline will be integrated into SAP solutions and included in SAP’s partner program. The partnership will help the companies drive the digital transformation of workplaces to processes in industrial environments. The first joint use cases of the partnership will … continue reading
Baetyl is a platform for edge computing that offers a standardized runtime environment and API for building edge applications. It was initially created by Baidu as OpenEdge and is currently an LF Edge Stage 1 project, which indicates projects that “are, or have the potential to be, important to the ecosystem of Top-Level Projects or … continue reading
IT operations teams are feeling swarmed by the number of tools they use for monitoring. According to a new survey from OpsRamp, a vast majority of respondents (95%) indicated that they use at least five tools on a daily basis. Half of respondents said they used more than 10 tools. These numbers have the potential … continue reading
AWS has announced the general availability for AWS Proton, which is a managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. AWS Proton provides teams with management tools, governance, and visibility for providing consistent standards and best practices to manage their deployments. To coincide with the general availability, two new features are being added: support for … continue reading
Komodor, a platform for streamlining Kubernetes troubleshooting, today announced $21 million in funding from Accel and angel investors. According to the company’s announcement, Komodor offers a unified view of events across the Kubernetes stack, providing developer and operations stakeholders with context and insight around those events so remediation can be done quickly and efficiently. To … continue reading
Edge company Vapor IO has announced the launch of Kinetic Grid. Kinetic Grid provides support for applications that operate in edge environments in different locations. Kinetic Grid provides APIs to provide software-controlled infrastructure, telemetry and intelligence. It also supports deployment of public and private 5G networks, Vapor IO explained. “The Kinetic Grid provides the automated … continue reading
Open source is increasingly becoming a crucial foundation of IoT and edge deployments. This is according to the Eclipse Foundation’s 2021 IoT and Edge Commercial Adoption Survey, which found that 74% of organizations use open source in their edge deployments, which is a 14% increase since the foundation’s same survey from 2019. “We recommend people … continue reading
NetApp has announced a new version of its ONTAP solution with new capabilities to help customers modernize hybrid cloud operations. New feature include updates to FlexPod, like intelligent application placement, automated workflows, and the ability to consume FlexPod as a fully managed service; NetApp StorageGRID 11.5, which adds data encryption with external key management, compliance … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is rebranding Windows Virtual Desktop to Azure Virtual Desktop and adding a number of new features in public preview. It is making the change in order to support evolving needs of hybrid and remote work. “To help our customers and partners meet these new hybrid work demands, we are expanding our … continue reading
Easegress, formerly known as EaseGateway, is an open-source traffic orchestration system. Key benefits, according to the project’s GitHub page, include high availability, traffic orchestration, high performance, observability, extensibility, and integration. Easegress was built around three principles: It must be traffic-specific It aims to be an extensible-development platform It is designed to be cloud-native It is … continue reading
Microsoft believes companies should be utilizing Zero Trust in order to keep their systems secure. Zero Trust is a security model in which a company always assumes there is a breach and provides the least privileged access necessary. Remote work, and now hybrid work, have shown the need for employees to securely access applications from … continue reading
Opengear has announced the release of Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition. Lighthouse Enterprise provides users with visibility and management capabilities across their networks. This new Automation Edition offers automation capabilities and secure provisioning. “We’re committed to offering industry-first, automation capabilities that provide customers with always-on access to their networks,” said David Fiore, senior software product manager … continue reading
Open-source edge computing platform StarlingX has announced its 5.0 release. StarlingX combines technologies like Ceph, OpenStack, and Kubernetes to provide a software stack that gives everything enterprises need to deploy an edge cloud, according to the company. StarlingX 5.0 adds support for edgeworker nodes, which are usually deployed at or close to the edge device … continue reading
It goes without saying that 2020 was an unforgettable year. It was unforgettable in a different way for the major cloud service providers, all of which experienced an impressive surge in demand. Market leader AWS closed out 2020 with revenues of $45.3 billion, up nearly 30% year-over-year and more than $13.5 billion in annual operating … continue reading