Topic: vmware
VMware announces intent to acquire Blue Medora true visibility suite
VMware announced its intent to acquire the True Visibility Suite team and technology from Blue Medora to further VMware’s self-driving operations capabilities. The acquisition would expand VMware’s existing operations management solution, VMware vRealize Operations, with Blue Medora’s integration solutions for vRealize Operations which are available via management packs. The integrations enable vRealize Operations to provide … continue reading
VMware to acquire network detection and response platform provider Lastline
VMware is looking to ramp up its security efforts with the acquisition of Lastline. The company announced intent to acquire the anti-malware research and AI-powered network detection and response platform provider. According to VMware, it’s more important than ever to ensure businesses have the proper security measures in place as work becomes more distributed and … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Rancher Labs Longhorn, VMware vSphere 7, and Cloudian releases HyperIQ
Rancher Labs has announced the release of Longhorn, a storage solution for containers. Longhorn provides “an enterprise-grade, vendor-neutral persistent storage solution that supports the easy development of stateful applications within Kubernetes,” Rancher explained. The GA version being released today includes features such as thin-provisioning, non-disruptive volume expansion, cross-cluster disaster recovery volume, live upgrades of Longhorn … continue reading
Google Cloud VMware Engine announced and VMware plans Octarine acquisition
Google announced the release of its VMware Engine, an integrated first-party offering with end-to-end support to migrate and run VMware environments in Google Cloud. Also, VMware announced its plans to acquire Octarine. The service delivers a fully managed VMware Foundation stack – VMware vSphere, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T, and HCX for cloud migration in a dedicated … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Menlo Security and VMware integrate, Cloudflare and Alibaba Cloud expand Bandwidth Alliance, and KnowBe4 finds 37.9% of untrained users fail phishing test
Menlo Security is partnering with VMware to provide phishing and malware protection for mobile devices. As part of the partnership, Menlo Security’s Global Cloud Proxy Platform will integrate with VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM). The resulting solution will help protect mobile devices by isolating threats in the cloud before they can reach the … continue reading
vSphere 7 brings essential services for the modern hybrid cloud
VMware launched vSphere 7 to provide essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. It is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade, according to VMware. It delivers the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that the company introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific. “Using vSphere 7 and VMware Cloud Foundation, you can … continue reading
VMware announces intent to acquire network analytics company Nyansa
VMware has announced that it plans to acquire AI-based network analytics company Nyansa. VMware will add Nyansa’s AI and machine learning capabilities to their existing network and security portfolio. “The acquisition of Nyansa will accelerate VMware’s delivery of end-to-end monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for LAN/WAN deployments within our industry-leading SD-WAN solution,” said Sanjay Uppal, vice … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware completes acquisition of Pivotal, Venafi’s security survey, and Azure IoT EdgeHub Dev Tool installation
VMware has officially acquired Pivotal for approximately $2.7 billion. The company first announced plans to acquire the cloud-native platform provider Pivotal in August. According to VMware, Pivotal will become a core part of its Tanzu portfolio, which is designed to help users build, run and manage important apps. “The combination of Pivotal’s developer-centric offerings with … continue reading
ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week: Tern
This week’s highlighted open-source project originated at VMware. Tern is a tool that looks through container images and finds software packages and image metadata. It provides admins with a better understanding of the bill of materials for a container. This allows them to make more well-informed decisions about container-based infrastructure, integration, and deployment strategies. Earlier … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1, Logz.io releases Log Patterns, and VMware Tanzu
Red Hat has announced the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Version 8.1 is the first minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. The release enhances the manageability, security, and performance of the operating system. It also adds System Roles, which streamlines the process of setting up subsystems for handling specific functions like … continue reading
VMworld 2019: Dell announces support for VMware PKS, Bitdefender’s GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments now available on VMware Cloud Marketplace, and more
The 2019 IT conference VMworld kicked off in San Francisco this week, and a number of companies are using the event as an opportunity to show off their latest releases. Prior to the event, VMware also announced intentions to acquire both Pivotal and Carbon Black. According to the company, these acquisitions show VMware’s commitment to … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Barracuda launches Firewall Insights and VMware acquires Avi Networks
Barracuda has announced the launch of Firewall Insights, an analytics platform for firewalls. Firewall Insights takes in data from firewalls or wide area networks and analyzes it. It then provides actionable insights for the entire network. The solution can be added to any CloudGen Firewall deployment option, which includes hardware appliances, virtual appliances, and cloud … continue reading
