NGINX Expands Portfolio to Include Service Mesh
NGINX at its online Sprint conference today launched a bevy of offerings including a service mesh as part of an expanded effort to meld network and security operations within the context of a larger DevOps workflow. Rob Whiteley, chief marketing officer for the subsidiary of F5 Networks, said NGINX Service Mesh 1.0 provides an easier […]
NVIDIA to Create AI Powerhouse by Acquiring Arm for $40B
NVIDIA has announced its intention to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion as part of an effort to create a juggernaut that will build processors optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications that span edge computing deployment to the cloud. Under the terms of the proposed deal, Arm will operate as a subsidiary of NVIDIA […]
Custom Coding: An Obstacle Along the Hybrid Cloud Journey
If you’re like 80% of enterprises, you’re somewhere along a hybrid cloud journey. The imperatives of digital transformation, the emergence of DevOps as the de facto enterprise development methodology and the rapidly growing demand for continuous innovation have made hybrid cloud the go-to infrastructure for competitive enterprises. Hybrid Cloud Governance Requires Automation Despite hybrid cloud […]
Micro Focus Strengthens Hybrid Cloud Hand
Micro Focus has made available a multi-tenant cloud management platform that can be deployed in a public cloud or on-premises IT environment. Travis Greene, senior director for IT operations management at Micro Focus, said the Hybrid Cloud Management X (HCMX) platform makes it possible to unify the management of IT services across a hybrid cloud […]
Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal
A survey of 122 IT professionals published today by SolarWinds in advance of IT Pro Day next week, finds that while IT teams are enjoying greater respect within their organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) admit there’s a need to rethink internal processes to better accommodate rapid change. Overall, […]
Challenging Cloud Migration Myths in the Wake of COVID-19
The COVID-19 push to cloud migration, unfortunately, is riddled with myths. Here are some worth busting With a substantial increase in the number of businesses now operating from their employees’ homes, and organization leaders realizing that their office buildings are now somewhat unnecessary until a vaccination against the coronavirus is widely distributed, the cloud has […]
Lenovo Updates Diverse HCI Platform Portfolio
Lenovo today announced a bevy of updates to its server portfolio that expand the number of options organizations have when it comes to bundling stacks of software with Lenovo hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms to reduce the total cost of on-premises IT. For example, Lenovo in collaboration with Nutanix and AMD, today launched a Lenovo ThinkAgile […]
How Continuous Transformation Can Deliver More Value
Continuous transformation in IT operations is more than just an industry buzzphrase. In fact, continuous transformation is a critical survival tool for any cloud and IT solution landscapes today. To achieve continuous transformation, innovation must continue well beyond a migration to the cloud. This continuous innovation during day-to-day IT operations is the most critical aspect […]
Volterra Service Mesh Service Automatically Discovers APIs
Volterra announced today it has updated a service mesh it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to include the ability to automatically discover all the application programming interfaces (APIs) in an application using machine learning algorithms, then automatically apply all the whitelist policies that apply to those APIs. Service meshes add a programmable layer […]
Envoy Proxy Server Project Comes of Age
The momentum behind the open source Envoy proxy software project is increasing as the number of platforms it can be deployed on continues to expand. Developed under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Envoy has most recently been extended to include support for Arm64 CI processors and Postgres databases. Envoy provides a […]
What It Takes to Succeed in a Multi-Cloud Environment
A multi-cloud strategy offers the best possible scenario for ensuring business continuity and helping improve innovation Business problems are not “one size fits all,” and neither are cloud architectures. Organizations are looking for specific solutions that deliver on their bespoke needs—a driver for many of them shifting from one cloud provider to working with multiple […]
VMware Expands Reach of IT Management Portfolio
VMware today announced a bevy of updates to its portfolio of IT management tools that is now at the heart of its overall approach to both DevOps and AIOps. VMware vRealize Operations 8.2 and VMware vRealize Operations Cloud, the on-premises and software-as-a-service (SaaS) editions of the same IT automation platform, provide deeper support for Kubernetes […]
Accurics Adds Compliance Control Support to Code Analyzer
Accurics, at the online KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2020 conference today, launched an update to its open source Terrascan static code analyzer that adds support for Open Policy Agent (OPA) engine to make it easier for developers to create custom compliance policies in addition to leveraging more than 500 out-of-the-box policies based on the CIS Benchmark. […]
Why Service Meshes Are Security Tools
Are service meshes overhyped, or do they solve a real puzzle for enterprise IT systems? Service meshes are a relatively new technology, and many people have found it challenging to fit them into predefined tooling categories. That’s because service meshes have a wide variety of functionality, from load balancing to securing traffic. But service meshes […]
Evolving from FaaS to a Truly Serverless Paradigm
True serverless helps alleviate some of the administration and management issues related to FaaS Creating distributed applications demands a thorough understanding of cloud infrastructures and architectures. Engineers must address complex operational issues, including provisioning, configuration and how their code will behave over a distributed architecture. The current standard is to architect programs into microservices, before […]
HashiCorp Adds Business Tier to Managed Terraform Service
HashiCorp today announced it has added a Business tier to the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud that expands the managed service in a way that provides advanced security, compliance and governance capabilities along with the ability to execute multiple runs concurrently and take advantage of more flexible service level agreement (SLA) options. Meghan Liese, director of product […]
Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS
Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual […]
Considering Hybrid Cloud? Focus on the Why
So much of business—and life in general—comes down to semantics. We articulate goals and measure success using a variety of terms. Some serve to clarify; others confuse. Consider the term “hybrid cloud”—a Google search yields 5.96 million results. So, yes, hybrid cloud is a hot topic, but what exactly do we mean by it? The […]
Are We Nearing the End of IT Service Outages?
Over the last two decades, the evolution of IT has been more like something a revolution—in some cases, the transformation even unpinning real-life uprisings. Today we’re acutely aware of advances in technology and the internet, particularly as the global COVID-19 pandemic creates a sweeping reliance on tele-everything and online commerce to sustain companies’ livelihood. The […]
VMware Brings Hybrid Cloud Computing to Virtual Desktops
VMware has updated its desktop and application virtualization platform to make it easier for IT teams to support end users who need to regularly shift between working in the office and from home. The latest version of VMware Horizon adds support for an instant clone capability that rapidly provisions personalized virtual desktops and applications enabled […]
The IT Admin’s Checklist for a Newly Remote Company
A few simple tips can help keep your remote workers productive and relatively stress-free during the new WFH paradigm Months into adjusting to COVID-19 impacts, organizations are now living in the day-to-day that was built on—let’s be honest—somewhat rushed plans to get everyone remote as quickly as possible. The image of repairing a bus while […]
Serverless: Helping the Enterprise Scale DevOps
Serverless is the paradigm shift that allows engineers to innovate and move faster DevOps has been around for more than 10 years and it’s still misunderstood by many companies. You can’t buy “a DevOps,” but DevOps is critical to your business. In some ways, serverless is similar: a name that markets well but creates confusion […]
Red Hat Updates Virtualization Platform
Red Hat today announced an update to its virtual machine platform that now can run on the latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Version 4.4 of Red Hat Virtualization can now run on version 8.2 of RHEL. In addition, Red Hat has added Grafana-based dashboards for its Data Warehouse (DWH) service that IT […]