Atlassian Launches ITSM Platform
Atlassian today extended its footprint in IT service management (ITSM) with the launch of Jira Service Management, a cloud-based platform designed to bridge the divide between DevOps and ticket-based approaches to managing IT. Edwin Wong, head of product for IT at Atlassian, said Jira Service Management builds on Opsgenie, an IT incident management platform. The […]
Cisco CEO: Developers Need More Infrastructure Control
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said this week that the company’s No. 1 priority going forward is to enable IT organizations to better manage application experience via abstraction layers that make to possible for developers to programmatically manage infrastructure. Speaking at its annual Cisco Partner Summit, which occurred online, Robbins said Cisco is working toward […]
Catchpoint Adds Endpoint Device Monitoring Services
Catchpoint today extended the reach of its monitoring services to include an offering that monitors the devices of end users. Nik Koutsoukos, chief marketing officer for Catchpoint, said the Employee Experience Monitoring service makes it possible to deploy the same agent software the company employs to track application experience on points-of-presence (PoPs) around the globe […]
Dell Launches Project Apex to Deliver IT as a Service
Dell Technologies today launched Project Apex, an initiative that promises to significantly expand its ambition to deliver IT as a service from the edge to the public cloud. Announced at the online Dell Technologies World 2020 conference, this initiative builds on the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform through which Dell manages IT infrastructure as service on […]
Distributed Data and Apps: What About Your Infra?
Technological and operational shifts are required to accommodate the shift to distributed data and apps You’ve read how modern companies are disrupting their legacy peers by pursuing a data-driven culture … Chick-fil-A’s edge use case allows the company to transform its fast-food restaurants. An industry-first, software-only mobile infrastructure by Rakuten Mobile. Tesla Autopilot functionality getting […]
Cisco Revamps Portfolio at the Network Edge
Cisco today announced a series of Catalyst offerings that combine the functionality of a secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and a router in a single platform. Archana Khetan, senior director of product management for enterprise routing and SD-WAN infrastructure within the Intent Based Networking Group at Cisco, said the Catalyst 8000 series is made […]
ServiceNow Partners With IBM on AIOps
ServiceNow and IBM this week announced that the Watson artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform from IBM will be integrated with the IT service management (ITSM) platform from ServiceNow. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products for ServiceNow, said once that capability becomes available later this year on the Now platform, IT […]
Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A Comparison
What cloud providers do you work with? Google Cloud Platform (GCP)? Amazon AWS? Microsoft Azure? Which services? Are you using a managed Kubernetes such as GKE, AKS, Openshift or EKS? How do you manage your cloud resources? How do you manage the release cycle of the infrastructure and applications that you deploy? If the above […]
Red Hat Expands Scope, Reach of Ansible Automation Framework
Red Hat, its online AnsibleFest 2020 conference today, announced an on-premises edition of Ansible Automation Platform dubbed Private Automation Hub and previewed technology to connect the Ansible Automation Platform managed as a cloud service by Red Hat and the on-premises edition. In addition, Red Hat is making available more pre-integrated workflows to its certified Ansible […]
Akamai Enables Microservices Deployment at the Edge
Akamai today announced it is adding the ability to deploy microservices on its edge computing platform to enable developers to run latency-sensitive applications faster. David Theobald, principal product manager at Akamai, said developers can now code dynamic content assembly at the edge to create microservices on the Akamai Intelligent Edge platform that include external requests […]
Morpheus Data Extends Hybrid Cloud Reach
Morpheus Data has updated its hybrid cloud computing platform to add support for a bare metal-as-a-service option as well as tighter integrations with VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and NSX-T, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Microsoft Azure and Veeam data protection tools. In addition, version 5.0 of the Morpheus IT management platform adds support […]
Cisco Expands Effort to Meld DevOps, NetOps
Cisco Systems has accelerated its efforts to converge network operations (NetOps) by adding support for Terraform tools for managing infrastructure-as-code as well as expanding its support for the Ansible IT automation framework. In addition, Cisco has improved and standardized the application programming interfaces (APIs) it makes available for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) framework for […]
Equinix Adds Automated Bare-Metal Server Service
Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to the rise of both artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are compute-intensive and Kubernetes clusters that, in many cases, don’t require the overhead created […]
Netlify Extends JAMstack Reach to Edge Computing
Netlify, at its JAMSTACK CONF VIRTUAL event today, announced Netlify Edge Handlers, which make it possible to extend a Git-based workflow to edge computing applications. Company CEO Matt Biilmann said Netlify Edge Handlers, available in beta, puts the primitives in place for deploying serverless web applications based on a JAMstack software architecture that employs JavaScript, […]
How To Build Out a Successful Multi-Cloud Strategy
Navigating even just a single cloud environment can be complicated enough for any startup. Between understanding the range of features on offer, planning for expenditure and ensuring you have the right expertise to leverage the tool to its full potential, the thought of managing multiple clouds can seem daunting. However, whether your company is just […]
Cloudflare Expands Range of CDN Alternatives to the Public Cloud
Cloudflare, a provider of a content delivery network (CDN) based on more than 200 data centers, this week announced it has made available a Durable Objects capability in beta that makes it possible to run stateful applications across a distributed serverless Cloudflare Workers service. Company CEO Matthew Prince said Durable Objects provide a truly unified […]
Optimize Performance, Cut Costs With AWS Autoscaling Services
A very easy (and free) way to get the get your money’s worth on the AWS Cloud platform is autoscaling. Autoscaling allows for better fault tolerance, better availability and better cost management, quickly scaling up and down to meet traffic demands while keeping your costs within budget by detecting and replacing the components that are […]
VMware Embraces SmartNICs to Extend Virtualization
VMware, as part of a bevy of updates to its portfolio announced today at its online VMworld 2020 conference, previewed its Project Monterey initiative to provide IT teams with composable infrastructure. At the core of that effort will be support for smart network integration cards (NICs) within VMware Cloud Foundation, the suite of software through […]
Preparing for Digital Life After COVID-19
The shift to a digitally dependent remote workforce across numerous industries was instantaneous for organizations after the COVID-19 pandemic spread, and after months of adapting, this way of life has become “a new normal.” IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to meet the increased demands they are experiencing now and preparing for the changes that […]
The Benefits of an IaC Approach to Storage
Adopting an IaC approach to storage offers freedom from storage infrastructure considerations Today’s multicloud world allows you to move applications and/or functions between clouds depending on your needs, but it also puts you in the position of having to understand the different storage requirements of each cloud provider. These providers have their own unique storage […]
Puppet Deepens Windows Integration
Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously and offering to assist organizations seeking to deploy the open source Chocolately package manager. In addition, Puppet has extended its support for […]
Harmonizing Real-Time on Edge Platforms
Edge computing platforms sit at the boundary between the real-time world and the digital enterprise. Uninterrupted, uncorrupted data from the edge is a must if analytics in the cloud drive reliable business decisions. What’s the best approach: using Linux, an RTOS (real-time operating system), a hypervisor or something else for edge platforms? Let’s talk about […]
Are We There Yet? The Long, Hot Road Trip to the Cloud
“If I have to pull this car over, there will be trouble!” Does this sentence evoke childhood memories of summer adventures in the family car? It’s the same sort of dread we get when the IT budget-holder turns around and threatens to pull over on our journey to the cloud or hybrid cloud. The family […]