Topic: data
Microsoft Ignite themes: Security, AI and data, IoT and edge computing
Microsoft kicked off its Ignite conference this morning with a boatload of announcement primarily around three themes: IT security, AI and data, and IoT and edge computing. With cyberattacks continuing to harm organizations around the world, Microsoft announced Secure Score, a report card to assess their current state of security as well as make recommendations … continue reading
Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat team up on the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative
Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat have announced a new collaboration to bring Big Data to hybrid environments. The companies announced the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative designed to take Big Data workloads across on-premise, multi-cloud and edge architectures. The initiative will bring Hortonworks Data Platform, Hortonworks DataFlow, Hortonworks DataPlane and IBM Cloud Private for Data to … continue reading
Couchbase Autonomous Operator for Kubernetes and OpenShift enters general availability
Open-source NoSQL database software company Couchbase has made version 1.0 of its Couchbase Autonomous Operator automated migration and deployment utility generally available today. According to the company this is “the first NoSQL database to launch a production-ready Kubernetes operator for open source Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift (coming soon),” Anil Kumar, director of project management … continue reading
Nutanix enterprise cloud OS hyperconvergence-based solution certified for SAP HANA
Nutanix, a provider in enterprise cloud computing, announced this week that its AHV hypervisor and Enterprise Cloud OS platform hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, has met SAP’s criteria for running production SAP HANA deployments. This will allow businesses that use SAP solutions to benefit from the simplicity and agility of leading HCI technology to deliver a … continue reading
Moogsoft Observe to extend AIOps platform with real-time analysis and problem detection
Artificial intelligence for IT operations company Moogsoft announced the upcoming beta of Moogsoft Observe, an extension of the company’s Moogsoft AIOps platform. Moogsoft AIOps is designed to provide administrators with AI-generated incident reports and data analysis in an easy-to-digest format. Although it’s an extension of Moogsoft’s base platform, the company explained Moogsoft Observe can be … continue reading
Report: AIOps is popular among IT executives, but concerns hold back wide adoption
Digital operation teams are ready to take advantage of AIOps. AIOps is a strategy that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate infrastructure incident management. According to a newly released report from cloud-based IT Ops management platform provider OpsRamp, 68 percent of respondents have reported they are already experimenting with AIOps in some way. … continue reading
DeepMind and Google are using AI to cool data centers
DeepMind and Google are utilizing their AI-powered recommendation system to provide data center cooling. The recommendation system was first developed in 2016 as a way to improve the energy efficiency of Google’s data centers. “Now we’re taking this system to the next level: instead of human-implemented recommendations, our AI system is directly controlling data centre … continue reading
Datadog launches Datadog Service Map for application topology visualization
Cloud-scale application monitoring service provider Datadog introduced the Datadog Service Map today, providing a visualization of the services and dependencies of users’ applications being monitored by the Datadog APM to track failures and bottlenecks. “As more organizations break monoliths up into microservices and embrace containerization, the fault domain within each application component has shrunk,” Michael … continue reading
InfluxData updates InfluxEnterprise with improved analytics, self-healing and LDAP integration
Open-source monitoring and analytics platform developer InfluxData released a new version of InfluxEnterprise today, designed to improve the analytics, self-healing, and permission and authorization management in the time series database platform. “Today’s enhancements to InfluxEnterprise make it easier for administrators to keep this mission critical data available and secure by checking and verifying every requested … continue reading
Evolute launches enterprise cloud migration and container platform
Cloud migration and container company Evolute launched the first version of its enterprise software platform. The launch of its enterprise container and migration technology is designed to help IT teams reliably migrate and run software apps between computing environments faster, and at a fraction of the cost as virtualization solutions, the company explained. According to … continue reading
New Relic APM adds distributed tracing for tracking infrastructure bottlenecks
New Relic is making it easier for IT administrators to track cross-infrastructure bottlenecks with the general availability of distributed tracing in the New Relic APM, released today. The distributed tracing feature is “designed to give software teams working in modern environments an easy way to capture, visualize, and analyze traces through complex architectures, including architectures … continue reading
Aqua Container Security Platform 3.2 released with “zero day” vulnerability protection
Cloud-native and containerized application security provider Aqua Security is introducing 3.2 of its Aqua Container Security Platform this week. The latest release comes with new capabilities for full-stack and serverless security, updated compliance features, and an OS-level security profile automation tool. “Sophisticated attacks often exploit unknown vulnerabilities in the application or operating system, also known … continue reading
