Topic: cloud
Puppet’s Project Nebula for cloud-native apps comes to public beta
Infrastructure automation and delivery provider Puppet announced the public beta release of Project Nebula at Puppetize PDX this week. Project Nebula is designed to provide a single deployment workflow solution for cloud-native and serverless technologies. “We’ve been working closely with our private beta participants to understand their deployment workflows and pain points. Everyone we’ve interviewed … continue reading
VMware completes acquisition of cloud-native endpoint protection provider Carbon Black
VMware has officially acquired Carbon Black for $2.1 billion. The company first announced plans to take on the cloud-native endpoint protection provider at the end of August. “Carbon Black brings us an industry-leading endpoint and workload security platform, with a cloud-native architecture, an AI-powered data lake and a smart, lightweight agent,” said Sanjay Poonen, chief … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Splunk closes acquisition of SignalFx, StackRox Kubernetes Security Platform, and OutSystems’ new capabilities
Splunk has announced the acquisition of the cloud monitoring provider SignalFx is now completed. The company first announced plans to acquire SignalFx in August. The price of the transaction was approximately $1.05 billion. “We live in a cloud-first world, where developers must have the ability to monitor and observe cloud-native infrastructure and applications in real-time, … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cloud-native apps lack security, Azure Sentinel, and Cloudflare’s Browser Insights
A recently released report from the IT analysis and research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG )revealed very few companies are using good security practices to protect their cloud-native apps. According to the report, only 8 percent of respondents are securing 75 percent or more of their apps with DevSecOps practices. Sixty-eight percent of companies plan … continue reading
Best practices for mitigating insider threats in the cloud
Although cloud vendors like Microsoft are generally responsible for protecting their infrastructures against attacks and even offer additional security services (e.g., the Microsoft 365 Security Center) to help customers with data protection, companies need their own controls as well. Why? Many different types of cloud users put corporate data at risk, including IT teams, managers … continue reading
VMware scoops up cloud-native companies Pivotal and Carbon Black
VMware has officially announced it will be acquiring cloud-native platform provider Pivotal for $2.7 billion. The company first revealed it was in talks with Pivotal earlier this month. The acquisition will help the company grow its Kubernetes offerings. Pivotal recently launched Pivotal Spring Runtime for Kubernetes and is working on Pivotal Application Service for Kubernetes. … continue reading
IT Ops news digest: OpenPOWER comes to the Linux Foundation, Storj Labs V3 beta, and Sisense cloud-native architecture
IBM has announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will move under the Linux Foundation. The foundation believes in collaboration with the open-source community to advance open hadware technology and accelerate opportunity. In addition, the company is opening the POWER Instructuion Set Architecture to help hardware and software work together on POWER. IBM will also contribute other technologies … continue reading
Splunk to acquire cloud monitoring company SignalFx for $1.05 billion
Splunk is taking its cloud offerings to new heights with the acquisition of real-time cloud monitoring for infrastructure, microservices, and applications solution provider SignalFx. The company has agreed to acquire SignalFx for approximately $1.05 billion. According to Splunk, once the deal closes it will be focused on APM at every stage of an organization’s cloud … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: CNCF archives rkt, Rancher Labs Platinum Partner Program, and Singularity Enterprise
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced it has voted to archive the rkt project. The project is an application container engine that was developed by CoreOS for cloud-native environments. According to the CNCF, while rkt was popular when it was created in December 2014, user adoption has severely declined. CNCF hosts other container runtime … continue reading
How Coexistence Offers a New Strategy for Seamless Cloud-to-Cloud Migrations
The advantages of cloud computing have proven themselves in business practices. What organization wouldn’t want to lower capital expenditures and realize greater elasticity to grow its business? The benefits are many and companies have adopted accordingly. The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud report from Flexera showed 94 percent of respondents rely on the cloud, … continue reading
Unravel launches new cloud assessment tool for migrations
Unravel Data has announced a new cloud assessment tool that will help organizations move their workloads to the cloud. The solution is available for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. According to the company, this new tool offers details of the source environment and its applications, identifies suitable workloads for the cloud and determines optimal cloud … continue reading
Think through your path to modernization and the cloud
The cloud is not a yes/no question – but, if it were, the answer is yes. Yes, cloud resources can help companies to modernize their systems and gain access to capabilities they never had before. Unless you work for a Fortune 100 company that has made considerable investments in building cloud-like data centers, you can’t … continue reading
