Google Cloud announces new networking solution: Network Connectivity Center
Google has announced the Network Connectivity Center to simplify on-premise and cloud networking. The new center is designed to provide planet-scale network management, tackling complex networks and connectivity needs. “As you shift to a cloud-first strategy, you have to manage the complexity of connecting resources across on-prem locations and the cloud to ensure access to … continue reading
VMware announces intent to acquire Mesh7
VMware has announced its intention to acquire cloud native API security mesh Mesh7, which will enable it to bring visibility, discovery, and better security to APIs. According to VMware, its customers are engaged in app modernization efforts, and modern apps require reliable connectivity, dynamic service discovery, and the ability to automate changes. In addition, security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Griffin
Griffin is an app created by Axway that provides assistance to team members and helps in the transitions involved in slowly opening offices around the world. The first major feature going into the Griffin App was to be an Office Scheduling assistant. This assistant in the app allows admins to set and change the normal … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: StackPulse Free, Logz.io’s Prometheus-as-a-Service, and IFS Cloud
StackPulse has announced a free version of its reliability platform, giving developers, DevOps, and SRE teams a more cost effective way to respond to software outages, automate operations, and provide more reliable software. StackPulse Free includes code-based playbooks for automation, and integration into existing monitoring, observability, and communications tools. The other paid version, StackPulse Enterprise, … continue reading
New Relic announces next-gen AIOps capabilities
New Relic announced new AIOps capabilities to democratize AI-assisted incident response for engineers and to introduce free forever access to instant anomaly detection. Engineers can now uncover anomalies automatically through a feature that’s enabled by default and available for free to all users. They can also see the probable root cause of every incident from … continue reading
Transposit launches over 200 new integrations to bridge the gap between DevOps and IT Ops
DevOps orchestration company Transposit has announced new pre-built integrations with over 200 services and tools, such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, and GitHub. The company believes that these integrations will help save organizations time and money by eliminating the need for them to build and maintain custom integrations to these services on their own. Teams … continue reading
VMware updates its vRealize Cloud Management portfolio
VMware has announced updates to its portfolio designed to give its customers more capabilities for monitoring, securing, optimizing, and automating their VMware cloud and public cloud services. VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 introduces enhanced public cloud provisioning support, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config integration, network automation with NSX-T migration support, and self-service automation for VMware cloud on … continue reading
Aqua Security launches Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform for containers and VMs running on Arm devices
Aqua Security launched a new container runtime security solution for Arm 64-bit environments that enables organizations to protect their high-density workloads on platforms such as AWS Graviton2 instances and more. “Our customers will be able to continue and accelerate their cloud native journey with Aqua’s support for Arm-based architectures. Through our commitment to supporting the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dynatrace expands Microsoft partnership, ServiceMax Engage, and IP Infusion updates
Dynatrace has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to make its observability platform available through the Azure Marketplace. This will make it easier for Microsoft customers to implement Dynatrace’s solution in their Azure and hybrid cloud environments. According to Dynatrace, this partnership also includes joint go-to-market benefits, like the ability for Azure customers to use committed … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Flux
Flux is an open-source GitOps project designed to keep Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration systems as well as automate any new changes to the configuration. It has been with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project since August 2019, and just this week it was voted to move to an incubating … continue reading
Shining a light on IT Operations metrics
Modern IT departments operate in a pressure cooker. Their highly distributed infrastructures are spread across legacy data centers and hybrid and multiple public clouds. Now, the Internet of Things and the edge are part of the mix. Massive amounts of data are flowing through these multi-faceted environments and it falls on IT to make sense … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Automation Anywhere Automation 360, Linkerd 2.10, and NetApp Astra
Automation Anywhere has announced the release of its new Automation 360 solution. The new tool will enable companies to discover user activities, document business processes, and analyze process variances; automate more processes; digitize by extracting information from business documents, emails and other unstructured data; and generate business and operational insights on bot performance. “The leaders … continue reading
Checkmk 2.0 released with new and updated plugins
Tribe29 has announced the release of Checkmk 2.0. Checkmk is an IT monitoring solution, and this latest release adds new features to help IT teams easily establish monitoring across applications, networks, services, and servers. Checkmk 2.0 adds new and updated plugins for services such as Kubernetes, Proxmox, Nutanix, Jenkins, Jira, Graylog, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, RabbitMQ, Redis, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Dell Hybrid Client, VMware updates, and CrowdStrike acquires Humio
Dell has announced the release of Dell Hybrid Client, which is a centrally managed solution that can be deployed onto Dell mobile and desktop devices. It can be used to grant access to applications and data no matter where an employee lives. It provides endpoint security, simplified workflows, optimized productivity, consistent experiences, cloud provider flexibility, … continue reading
