Topic: cloud
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: FOCUS
The FinOps Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) provides consistency and standardization to cloud cost data. It helps companies visualize the value of cloud services and transforms complex billing data into a simple standardized schema. FOCUS simplifies multi-cloud billing data, enhances reporting consistency across various vendors, and streamlines FinOps capabilities such as allocation, chargeback, budgeting, forecasting, … continue reading
Canonical releases low-touch cloud solution MicroCloud
Canonical has officially released MicroCloud, an open-source cloud solution, as part of its expanding cloud infrastructure portfolio. The new solution enables IT professionals to deploy clouds to their environment using a single command, with all of the orchestration handled for them. MicroCloud is specifically designed for scalable clusters and edge deployments across various enterprises. The … continue reading
PerfectScale announces carbon emission visibility for AWS, Azure, and GCP Kubernetes
PerfectScale has introduced new capabilities enabling users to visualize, monitor, and mitigate the carbon footprint of Kubernetes clusters operating in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Through the platform’s handling of cloud resources, enterprises can effectively reduce costs and improve the environmental sustainability of their applications, according to the company. The widespread adoption of Kubernetes … continue reading
IBM releases watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed
IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed simplifies Ansible Playbook creation with AI-generated content recommendations. It’s designed to enhance IT automation by enabling IT users to create requests through plain English text prompts, from which it generates syntax-correct and contextually relevant content that can be used by the system. In a pilot program, … continue reading
Kubernetes is killing the cloud
Let’s cut right to the chase: While Kubernetes is great for quickly deploying containers at cloud-scale, I think most people who use Kubernetes are missing out on the real value of the cloud, which is offloading responsibilities on parts of your application to managed cloud services. Kubernetes users quickly become “containerized” and have a hard … continue reading
Lacework updates cloud security platform with new integrations, more options
The cloud security company Lacework has announced updates that aim to provide customers with more choices when it comes to securing multicloud environments. The company now offers support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving customers another option to use with its cloud security posture management solution. This is in addition to previous support for AWS, … continue reading
Trend Micro unveils new cloud container security capabilities
Trend Micro has introduced enhanced container security features for its main endpoint security platform, focusing on providing comprehensive protection, detection, and response for secure digital transformation. Trend Vision One Container Security’s capabilities allow analysts to expedite and improve incident prioritization, potentially reducing the time spent on container security incidents by up to two weeks, the … continue reading
PerfectScale announces $7.1 million in seed funding
PerfectScale, a provider of Kubernetes optimization capabilities, has secured $7.1 million in seed funding, led by Blumberg Capital with participation from previous investor UpWest, Prelude Ventures, and additional investors K2 Access Fund, Inner Loop Capital, Triangle Tweener Fund, and Firestreak Ventures. This funding brings the company’s total investment to nearly $10 million since its establishment … continue reading
Akash updates its “Supercloud for AI” with easier access to GPUs
Overclock Labs, creators of the open-source distributed network Akash, aims to tackle the difficulty that comes with looking for on-demand compute with new updates to its Supercloud, essentially a “cloud of clouds” that enables users to access compute resources, including GPUs, from a wide array of providers, spanning from independent to hyperscale, according to Akash. … continue reading
Red Hat expands capabilities of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform offerings on Microsoft Azure
Red Hat announced advancements to Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) on Microsoft Azure, such as new consumption models and clustering features. Organizations seeking to move their workloads to the cloud can now benefit from Red Hat OpenShift through JBoss EAP on Azure Red Hat OpenShift. This is a fully-managed service that is … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Crio-O
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced the graduation of the CRI-O project, which offers a reliable and high-performing implementation of the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) for the Kubelet. It also enables the orchestration of Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers in Kubernetes environments used for production purposes. This graduation signifies that CRI-O has achieved a … continue reading
Teleport Assist launches as generative AI chat interface for infrastructure management
Teleport has introduced a new offering called Teleport Assist, an AI-powered chat interface specifically designed to aid DevOps teams in swiftly and effortlessly resolving infrastructure issues by engaging in conversations with their cloud environments. With Teleport Assist, DevOps professionals can troubleshoot problems more efficiently, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to streamline their workflows and … continue reading
