Topic: hybrid cloud
IBM releases new capabilities to help customers with compliance in hybrid cloud environments
IBM is expanding its IBM Cloud Security and Compliance Center in order to help its customers better protect their data and assess risks in hybrid cloud environments. According to a survey the company conducted, 77% of business leaders have adopted hybrid cloud, but over half of respondents are concerned about security and think compliance in … continue reading
Micro Focus announces HCMX FinOps Express to help companies optimize cloud spend
Micro Focus announced the release of Hybrid Cloud Management X (HCMX) FinOps Express, which is a SaaS service designed to help companies reduce their cloud spend by providing management of cloud investments. “Among many reasons that organizations move workloads to the cloud is to reduce data center costs, but many organizations do not realize the … continue reading
How Multi-Layer Networking De-Risks Your Cloud Migration
As the cloud native ecosystem continues to evolve, the need to take advantage of Kubernetes and public cloud technologies only grows. While younger organizations born in the cloud-era likely have robust microservices strategies running in the public cloud, mature organizations must deal with the complexity of legacy applications and on-premises architectures. A hybrid cloud approach … continue reading
The tradeoffs of moving to the cloud can be alleviated with a hybrid approach
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, but massive outages, such as last week’s AWS outage have highlighted that there are indeed some tradeoffs that occur when moving to the cloud, such as their applications being unavailable when their cloud provider experiences an outage. Even though systems are designed for reliability — especially at the … continue reading
IBM Power E1080 is the first in a new family of hybrid cloud servers
IBM has announced the first of a new family of IBM Power servers, which are designed for hybrid cloud environments. The server, IBM Power E1080, includes minute-based metering of Red Hat services like OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, more than 4x OpenShift throughput compared to x86 servers, and improved architectural consistency. It also includes … continue reading
Microsoft announces Azure Arc updates
Microsoft added new innovations to Azure Arc, a set of technologies that extends Azure management and services to any infrastructure, including on-premises, multicloud, or at the edge. Users now have access to Azure Machine Learning, which enables data scientists and developers to build, deploy and manage machine learning (ML) models. Customers can train ML models … continue reading
Red Hat software now available on IBM Power Systems
IBM announced the availability of Red Hat software on IBM Power Systems and new IBM Power Systems hardware. Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power Virtual Server leverages OpenShift’s bare metal installer, Red Hat Runtimes, and newly certified Red Hat Ansible Content Collections. Also, the new IBM Private Cloud Rack Solution provides clients with an optimized, … continue reading
IBM acquires Taos for hybrid cloud consulting
IBM has entered in an agreement to acquire cloud professional and managed services company Taos. According to the company, this will help advance its migration and cloud transformation efforts. “Taos adds the deep expertise, public cloud partnerships and innovative solutions needed to drive growth and adoption of IBM’s hybrid cloud platform throughout the Americas,” said … continue reading
IBM adds new data and automation capabilities to its hybrid cloud software portfolio
IBM announced a series of data and automation updates to Cloud Pak for Data and Cloud Pak for Automation on Red Hat OpenShift to help companies with innovation across their expanding environments and to accelerate digital transformations. Cloud Pak for Data will now receive new industry accelerators for banking, warranty management, supply chain forecasting, and … continue reading
IT Ops Times news digest: Nobl9’s SLO platform now in beta, Pulumi’s round of funding for cloud engineering and Wipro and IBM team up on hybrid cloud
Nobl9 announced the public beta of its service level objective (SLO) platform for site reliability engineers. It aims to transform reliability metrics into actionable business KPIs. In addition, it works with Datadog and New Relic to collect critical metrics. “Every company—and especially companies who deliver software—must make wise resource allocation decisions and balance tradeoffs between … continue reading
The Cloud Security Alliance announces new risks, threats and vulnerabilities for migrating to the hybrid cloud
With hybrid clouds now often the starting point for organizations in their cloud journey, management, access control, data use, and service contracts become more difficult with multi-cloud convergence, according to the Cloud Security Alliance in a whitepaper. “Although the hybrid cloud environment seamlessly integrates private and public cloud, bringing onboard new IT capabilities to the … continue reading
Red Hat AnsibleFest roundup
At Red Hat AnsibleFest this week, the company released a number of new automation capabilities for its platform. Red Hat Ansible Automation platform integration for Red Hat OpenShift environments released The integration between Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform connects traditional platforms, containers and edge through automation. The … continue reading
