IT as Code
CloudBolt Acquires SovLabs to Advance Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Mike Vizard | | acquisition, CloudBolt, hybrid cloud, hybrid IT environment, IT environments, SovLabsCloudBolt Software this week announced it has acquired SovLabs, a provider of a framework that extends the reach of automation frameworks from VMware. Company CEO Jeff Kukowski said that as a provider ...
AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Mike Vizard | | AWS, cloud deployments, linux, Microsoft Azure, on-premises environments, open source, workloadsAmazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering ...
Morpheus Data Automates Hybrid Cloud Management
Morpheus Data has updated to its cloud management platform by making it easier to dynamically integrate different implementations of automation tasks created using different tools and frameworks any Git or GitHub repository ...
Cisco Moves ACI Strategy Forward
Mike Vizard | | API, Cisco Systems, hybrid cloud computing, software-defined infrastructure, software-defined networkingCisco is advancing its hybrid cloud computing strategy with release of version 5.0 of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a software-defined networking (SDN) that can be deployed on cloud platforms or networking ...
Cloudian Adds Object-Based Storage Platform Monitoring Tool
Mike Vizard | | AIOps, cloud-based storage, distributed storage, object-based storage, storage, unstructured dataCloudian today added a monitoring and observability tool to its object-based portfolio of appliances for storing unstructured data in on-premises IT environments. Jon Toor, chief marketing officer for Cloudian, said HyperIQ provides ...
Cisco Acquires ThousandEyes to Advance Network Visibility
Cisco Systems this week announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes, provider of an internet monitoring platform that Cisco plans to leverage to embed ThousandEyes agent software into a range of devices including ...
How SD-WAN Is Driving Business Continuity in a COVID World
Christian Gilby | | COVID, network security, network visibility, SD-WAN, software-defined networkingThe coronavirus outbreak has thrown the economy into flux, creating changes to entire industries that would have been unpredictable a few months ago. While demand for travel has decreased dramatically, other businesses ...
Dell Technologies Advances Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Dell Technologies, in collaboration with VMware and Google, today advanced its hybrid cloud strategy by making its CloudFS storage system available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and adding support for VMware Tanzu ...
Lucidchart Launches Tool to Visualize AWS Cloud Environments
Lucidchart today added a visualization tool that generates interactive diagrams of an IT organization’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Dan Lawyer, senior vice president of product at Lucidchart, said Lucidchart Cloud Insights ...
Fortanix Adds Platform to Manage Confidential Computing on Azure
Mike Vizard | | application security, cloud services, confidential computing, data security, open source, SaaSFortanix today announced that a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing instances of confidential computing on the Microsoft Azure cloud is now generally available. Confidential computing is an emerging approach to encrypting data ...
Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?
Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, ...
Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced ...
