Topic: cloud
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Shelf
Shelf is a platform that allows users to take pictures of their physical assets and store them in a personal database. Users can generate a printable QR code for each item and attach it to the item for easy future identification and location. It can be used by individuals, or by companies looking to answer … continue reading
Puppet by Perforce releases new compliance features
Puppet by Perforce has announced the release of Puppet Comply 2.14.0, the latest version of the company’s tool for making sure infrastructure is secure. The company also announced updates to its Windows and Linux Compliance Enforcement Modules (CEM), which are policy-as-code modules that align with industry security benchmarks. According to Puppet by Perforce, the escalation … continue reading
Barracuda SecureEdge works to make remote work easier to secure
Barracuda, the cloud-first security company, today unveiled its new SASE solution intended to simplify the process of making hybrid and remote work secure, Barracuda SecureEdge. This solution also integrates Barracuda’s Secure SD-WAN, Firewall-as-a-Service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway capabilities. According to the company, Barracuda SecureEdge secures users, sites and IoT devices; is … continue reading
Dell updates storage portfolio to offer improved cyber resiliency, energy efficiency, and automation
Dell Technologies today announced updates that have been made to its storage portfolio in order to increase cyber resiliency, energy efficiency, and automation. These updates are intended to assist users along their multicloud journeys. With this update, PowerStore, Dell’s all-flash data storage array, is increasing its security to help organizations adopt a Zero Trust model. … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Dashy
Dashy is a self-hostable personal dashboard that includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor, and more. The tool helps users organize self-hosted services by making them accessible from a single place. Dashy includes a selection of pre-installed themes that users can easily preview, apply, and modify via the user interface. The presence of … continue reading
Report: IT executives growing concerned over cloud spending
These IT leaders will be trying to find ways to reduce their cloud infrastructure, application, and tools costs. According to a survey by Vega Cloud, 100% of the 100 executives they surveyed say that cloud is important to their business. 91% currently spend at least $1 million per year on cloud infrastructure. Despite the critical … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: OpenKruise
OpenKruise is an extended component for Kubernetes that was built with a focus on application automation like deployment, upgrade, ops, and availability protection. The project became a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Incubating Project last month which means that the project is considered stable and used successfully in production. The majority of features offered by … continue reading
Report: Cloud funding is drying up among VCs
The pandemic and low interest rates fueled a big wave of cloud adoption, but that is all starting to dry up. This is according to Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) in their State of the Cloud 2023 report, which looks at cloud adoption through the lens of funding and market conditions. If you compare the cloud … continue reading
NetBox Labs raises $20 million in series A funding
The open-source startup NetBox Labs announced that it received $20 million in a Series A funding round following the company’s spin-out from NS1, which IBM acquired. “With the increasingly dynamic, distributed, and critical nature of networks, combined with the explosion of devices and the rapid transition of every enterprise to SaaS and connected systems, networking … continue reading
Google Cloud VMs can now be suspended
Google Cloud launched a new generally available feature called “VM suspend/resume,” which enables users to save money by temporarily suspending virtual machines (VMs) on Google Compute Engine when they are not in use, and then resuming them when needed. In the suspended state, users no longer have to pay for cores or RAM and instead … continue reading
Flexera One FinOps helps to improve cost of enterprise collaboration
Flexera, a company that works to help organizations gain business value from their technology investments, today released Flexera One FinOps to strengthen an enterprise’s FinOps and cloud central teams. This release is intended to enhance the combination of IT asset management and FinOps in order to improve the way enterprises visualize and administer cloud usage … continue reading
StarlingX R8.0 includes new updates for real-time applications
Cloud infrastructure software stack provider StarlingX has announced the release of StarlingX R8.0, bringing users new features and enhancements. With this release, StarlingX has upgraded to new versions of platform components such as Kubernetes, added the ability to integrate SSH with remote Windows Active Directory, enhanced the Backup and Restore feature, added support for Kubernetes … continue reading
