Topic: data
ITOps news digest: AWS announces the availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances, Red Hat bolters partnerships, IOTech partners with Google Cloud
The general availability of Amazon EC2 R6i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads. Like M6i and C6i instances, these new R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, building blocks that can offload a lot of the traditional virtualization functions to dedicated, delivering high performance, high availability, and highly secure cloud instances. The new … continue reading
ManageEngine announces new endpoint management capabilities
ManageEngine announced the addition of data loss prevention for endpoints, anti-ransomware and endpoint compliance capabilities to its unified endpoint management (UEM) solution, Desktop Central. This follows a 500% spike in ransomware attacks since the move to remote work last year, according to a Bitdefender report. Also, ManageEngine’s 2021 Digital Readiness Survey found that 83% of … continue reading
Crowdstrike launches Humio Community Edition
Crowdstrike launched a free Humio Community Edition to bring the power of streaming log management to a wider range of users. The community edition allows users to ingest 16 GB of data per day and retain the data for up to seven days. Users will receive ongoing access to the data and the offering does … continue reading
Auth0 now available on Microsoft Azure
Auth0 announced that it launched its Auth0 Identity Platform on Microsoft Azure to unlock a secure cloud deployment option for organizations seeking strategic fit with their technology stack. Auth0’s identity platform provides organizations with tools to support security, compliance, and data residency that apply to them. Organizations requiring data residency options can take advantage of … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TrueNAS CORE
TrueNAS is an open-source storage OS that gives users the power to build their own professional-grade storage system to use in a variety of data-intensive applications without any software costs. “IT professionals, photographers, designers, audio/video producers and editors, developers, and any user serious about storing and protecting lots of data can take advantage of TrueNAS … continue reading
Report: MTTR proves to be inaccurate metric for success
The mean time to resolve (MTTR), the industry gold standard for success and efficiency, proves to be an inaccurate metric for success. The 2021 VOID report by chaos engineering company Verica set to come to conclusions about how to tackle software-based failures, but do to the distribution of data, the company found MTTR wasn’t a … continue reading
Lookout announces Zero Trust solution that adapts to changes in risk level
Lookout announced its new Zero Trust solution for any app that dynamically adapts based on data sensitivity and on a continuous risk assessment of endpoints and users. The solution is an expansion of Lookout Continuous Conditional Access (CCA), achieved by integrating the company’s Mobile Endpoint Security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions. Organizations have … continue reading
Smart data: Accelerating the journey from data to insights
Today’s AIOps and observability solutions are applying increasing levels of intelligence to IT Ops data with the goal of generating actionable insights. However, sophisticated AI and ML can sometimes be no match for ‘bad data.’ It’s the age-old problem of garbage in/garbage out. Data can’t simply be taken at face value because it can lead … continue reading
AWS Backup Audit Manager now available
AWS announced the availability of AWS Backup Audit manager, which is a new feature of AWS Backup to help users monitor and evaluate the compliance status of their backups to ensure they meet business and regulatory requirements. It is a fully managed service which allows users to initiate policy-driven backups and restores of AWS applications … continue reading
CloudFabrix and Verge.io announce strategic partnership
CloudFabrix announced a strategic partnership with Verge.io to provide a complete data center transformation. CloudFabrix is a provider of the AIOps and Observability platform that scales and accelerates digital IT life cycle planning and autonomous IT operations, while Verge.io is a software-defined data center (SDDC) company. The partnership will combine CloudFabrix’s AI-based Asset Intelligence and … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Storj
Storj DCS which stands for Decentralized Cloud Storage was released in late April as a tool for users to automatically encrypt all files before being uploaded so that the data is only in the right hands. Files processed with Storj are encrypted, split into pieces, and stored on geographically diverse Nodes, and every file is … continue reading
IBM adds enhanced data protection to FlashSystem
IBM announced that it is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to the IBM FlashSystem family of all flash arrays to help companies plan for and recover quickly from ransomware and cyberattacks. IBM Safeguarded Copy, which automatically creates data copies in “immutable snapshots,” will now be integrated into the IBM FlashSystem family. In the event of … continue reading
