ITOps Times news digest: Retrospect Backup 18, Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM, and AlmaLinux 8.4
Retrospect Backup 18 and Retrospect Virtual 2021 are now available. Retrospect Backup 18 features new ransomware protections, an improved new first launch experience, better reporting, and cloud data protection across the major cloud providers. Retrospect Virtual 2021 adds faster backups, improved backup server performance, increased security, deeper data integrity, and broader platform support. “Retrospect Backup … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Infracost
Infracost is an open-source cloud cost estimator designed to help DevOps, SREs and developers estimate the cost of Infrastructure as Code projects. It can be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline to see what impact a change to a business’ infrastructure can do. Infracost currently supports 100 AWS and Google resources, but the team has been … continue reading
New Relic FutureStack 2021 unveils updates to Kubernetes, error tracking and network observability
New Relic made a number of new announcements around making observability a data-driven approach and catching errors before they happen at its annual FutureStack 2021 conference this week. As part of the conference, the company unveiled a brand new Kubernetes experience, powered by Auto-Telemetry with Pixie. Pixie is an open-source observability solution that the company … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Datastream, TIBCO Hyperconverged Analytics experience, and KubeSphere Container Platform 3.1
Google this week introduced Datastream, a serverless change data capture (CDC) and replication service that is now available in preview. Users can synchronize heterogeneous databases, storage systems and applications with minimal latency to support real-time analytics, database replication and event-driven architectures. It integrates with purpose-built and extensible Dataflow templates to pull the change streams written … continue reading
Google’s VM Manager gets new OS configuration management
Google is previewing new OS configuration management inside its VM Manager solution. VM Manager is a collection of infrastructure management tools designed to ease and automate the maintenance of large Compute Engine VM fleets. The company first introduced the solution at the beginning of this year. “OS configuration management is an important way that administrators … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Splice Machine’s Livewire Pulsar, IOTech’s Edge Builder, and env0’s intelligent cloud cost automation
Splice Machine has announced the release of Livewire Pulsar, which is the latest version of its operational AI platform Livewire. Livewire Pulsar uses an updated Kubernetes architecture, which reduces costs, adds new AI features, and provides a simplified and updated user interface. “Industrial enterprises have struggled to fully optimize their investments in AI. Our new … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Harvester
Harvester is an open-source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution developed by SUSE. The open-source solution provider for enterprise servers and cloud announced the beta release of the project at its SUSECON Digital 2021 conference earlier this week. The solution is built on Kubernetes and designed to deliver a new generation of HCI through virtual manage and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Wind River Studio updates, Linux Foundation’s WebAssembly course, Immuta raises $90 million in Series D
Wind River has added new security enhancements to Wind River Studio. New features in Wind River Titanium Linux include secure boot, anti-tamper protections, and simpler mandatory access control (MAC) policy creation. The security controls also meet IoT guidelines like NIST initiatives, OWASP IoT security projects, IoT Security Foundation protocols, and guides from the European Union … continue reading
Cloud Security Alliance releases Enterprise Architecture Reference Guide v2
The Cloud Security Alliance announced the release of the Enterprise Architecture Reference Guide v2, which provides users with a compilation of every domain and container within the CSA Enterprise Architecture v2.3. “This reference guide is fundamentally important for risk managers in evaluating opportunities for improvement, creating road maps for technology adoption, identifying reusable security patterns, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Styra Series B, JumpCloud Protect, and AWS Application Migration Service
Styra has announced that it raised $40 million in Series B funding. This funding round was led by Battery Ventures with participation from A. Capital, Unusual Ventures, Accel, Capital One Ventures, and Citi Ventures. The company plans to use this new funding to double its current team by the end of the year, focusing on … continue reading
Cohesity backup-as-a-service solution adds Microsoft 365 support
Backup company Cohesity has announced new support for Microsoft 365 in its backup-as-a-service offering. Microsoft 365 solutions included in the extended support include Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Teams. According to the company, this new offering can be used in a variety of ways, depending on customer needs. For example it can be used … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Longhorn
Longhorn is an open-source distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. It is built using Kubernetes and container primitives, making it cloud-native storage, according to the team. “Longhorn implements distributed block storage using containers and microservices. Longhorn creates a dedicated storage controller for each block device volume and synchronously replicates the volume across multiple replicas stored … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud Armor, Moogsoft updates, and AWS Incident Manager
Google Cloud has announced the general availability of Cloud Armor. Cloud Armor is a DDoS protection and Web-Application Firewall (WAF) service for Google Cloud. It absorbs network- and protocol-based attacks and mitigates OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus is a managed service that bundles DDoS protection, WAF capabilities, Adaptive Protection, efficient pricing, … continue reading
OpsRamp Spring 2021 release offers rapid onboarding
The OpsRamp Spring 2021 release is now available, and it includes faster onboarding, observability improvements, data-driven insights, and more. To help with onboarding, OpsRamp offers a hybrid cloud wizard that provides a guide for discovering and monitoring cloud native infrastructure. Once IT teams provide OpsRamp with information on their infrastructure, the platform will automatically be … continue reading
