Portshift has announced the release of Kubernetes API Server Protection. The solution is designed to analyze RBAC permissions in Kubernetes clusters and then categorize them by risk level.

Kubernetes API Server Protection also makes existing pod permissions more strict and removes unused performissions. 

In addition, the company announced that it received Red Hat Container Certification, which will expand the product’s availability across Red Hat’s cloud portfolio.

Nutanix introduces new automation features
These new automations are designed to make it easier for companies to maintain business continuity. Specific new capabilities include advanced automation for recovering applications and data, support for seamless multi-site disaster recovery, synchronous replication for workloads running on AHV, and near-zero data loss with “near sync” replication.

“Maintaining continuous business operations is a high priority for all types of companies and organizations,” said Greg Smith, vice president of product marketing at Nutanix. “However, most businesses rely on custom, handcrafted DR implementations to guard against system-wide IT failures. Nutanix now natively delivers automated, easy-to-deploy disaster recovery solutions built to deliver applications that must always be available.”

DataKinetics expands partnership with IBM 
DataKinetics will help innovate IBM Z systems, which is IBM’s mainframe server hardware offering. 

The new offering will optimize mainframe and data performance, address capacity constraints, and allow companies to get the most out of their IBM Z systems investments. 

OpsRamp announces free access to AIOps platform and remote consoles
These offerings will be made available for free to customers that have been experiencing disruptions due to COVID-19. Organizations that have purchased OpsRamp’s hybrid discovery and multi-cloud monitoring solution will get free access to the AIOps and remote access management platform for one year. 

“IT operations teams are now facing unique challenges to maintain and accelerate organizational growth, customer satisfaction, and employee productivity,” said Varma Kunaparaju, CEO of OpsRamp. “But that doesn’t mean that they have to do it alone. OpsRamp is committed to helping customers with more flexible and economic options for improving hybrid infrastructure monitoring and real-time incident management.”