Making the Move to Edge Computing? Consider This
Edge computing has exciting potential, but there are certain considerations to thrive in today’s competitive landscape Data is king, especially in the current era of the data-driven business, where a data mindset and analytical capabilities are significant factors in determining future success. With so much data to be mined and monetized, more companies are recognizing […]
Juniper Networks Brings AI to SD-WANs
Juniper Networks today announced it can now apply the same artificial intelligence (AI) engine it uses to automate the management of wireless local area networks (LANs) to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). Based on an AI engine that Juniper Networks gained when it acquired Mist Systems, the Juniper Mist WAN Assurance cloud service streams telemetry […]
Veritas Looks to Reduce Data Protection Costs
Veritas has extended the capabilities of the company’s NetBackup software as part of an effort to reduce the total cost of data protection. Version 8.3 of NetBackup now includes Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP), a disaster recovery tool, and CloudPoint, a tool for backing data up on a public cloud. All of these tools are part […]
RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud
RackN is making available an update to the RackN Digital Rebar Platform that will make it easier to employ tools such as Terraform to configure bare-metal servers. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said version 4.4 of the platform adds an application programming interface (API) that enables bare-metal servers to be abstracted into resource groups. IT administrators […]
3 Key Issues With Hybrid Cloud Transformation
The cloud has fractured. Nowadays, it is nearly impossible to scale a cloud-agnostic digital transformation initiative. The reality is that most enterprises adopt a hybrid cloud arrangement. Whether designed strategically or throughout years of competing vendors and technology influences, hybrid cloud environments, and the problems therein, seem a mainstay for modern IT. Many digital transformation […]
How to Achieve AWS Security in 10 Steps
Looking to lock down your AWS cloud service? Here are the 10 steps to take for AWS security As more companies embrace the cloud, security is becoming a more significant challenge. Irrespective of size, organizations are increasingly realizing the importance of having proper cloud security practices in place. More and more companies are creating a […]
Xen Project Team Updates Open Source Hypervisor Project
The team behind the open source Xen hypervisor announced today provided an update to the project that adds better nested performance, more robust live patching capabilities, improved security and support for Linux subdomains that make it possible to execute code within a specialized domain. In addition, Xen Project Hypervisor 4.14 adds the ability to run […]
Arrcus Expands Network Services Spanning Hybrid Clouds
Arrcus has added virtualized distributed routing (VDR) and multi-cloud networking (MCN) capabilities to ArcOS, a network operating system (NOS) that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Company CEO Devesh Garg said these additional capabilities provide the programmatic network services that IT organizations require to foster deployments of hybrid cloud computing environments. Arrcus MCN […]
DevOps Chat: Software-Defined Storage, With StorPool
The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool, it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what the company has been doing for a while now. It is the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Boyan Krosnov, co-founder and […]
Serverless Computing: Taking DevOps to the Next Level
Serverless computing enables you to outsource information, thus freeing teams to focus on front-end work. Organizations choose serverless when they look for faster and easier ways to release updates and patches. DevOps teams often use serverless when they are looking to automate infrastructure tasks. However, each provider offers different capabilities, and each service does require […]
IaC and Kubernetes: A Natural Pairing
Using IaC with Kubernetes helps standardize Kubernetes cluster configuration and manage add-ons Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. It offers repeatability, transparency and the application of modern software development practices to the management of infrastructure including networks, load balancers, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and monitoring. […]
observIQ Lauches Open Source Log Agent Project
Blue Medora, after selling its core monitoring integration platform to VMware, today changed its name to observIQ and launched an open source agent project that will serve as the foundation of a log management tool to be delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Company CTO Mike Kelly said the observIQ agent, which is written in […]
Puppet Brings Orchestration to IT Automation
Puppet today unveiled its summer release of Puppet Enterprise that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to construct automated workflows within a Puppet console. DevOps teams can now mix and match thousands of declarative state-based modules available on Puppet Forge repository to compose and orchestrate workflows. At the same time, Puppet has added […]
Jump Over the Hidden Barriers to Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is critical to success in the new normal. Here’s how to achieve it in an uncertain economy Bit by bit, we’re reopening the economy. No one knows how long it’ll take to get the economy back on track or what kind of regulations there will be to keep everyone safe. But we do […]
Barracuda Networks Partners With Microsoft on SD-WAN Service
Barracuda Networks today launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Klaus Gheri, vice president of network security for Barracuda Networks, said Microsoft has made it possible to launch an SD-WAN service using Azure Virtual WAN Hubs, a networking service based on a hub-and-spoke architecture that unifies […]
Collibra Employs Microservices for Data Management
Collibra has launched a Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud based on a microservices architecture that promises to alter the way data is managed in enterprise IT environments. Jim Cushman, chief product officer for Collibra, said its approach sets the stage for leveraging microservices to create data workflows made up of reusable components. In fact, there may […]
Google Taps AMD for Confidential Computing Service
Google Cloud, at a Google Cloud Next 2020 Online event, announced it is making available in beta Confidential VMs, a new service that represents the cloud service provider’s first foray into the realm of confidential computing. Based on second-generation EPYC processors from AMD that provide access to an embedded Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) capability, Confidential […]
HPE Acquires Silver Peak to Gain SD-WAN
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak, a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform provider, which will be incorporated into its Aruba Networks subsidiary. Keerti Melkote, president of Intelligent Edge for HPE, told industry analysts the $925 million acquisition will eventually lead to edge computing devices all being managed via the […]
AIOps Greasing the Wheel of Digital Security amid COVID-19
Amid the most challenging era for business infrastructures and transformations, AIOps (AI for IT Operations) can help industries operating in the digital environment to be vigilant when it comes to network operations or the digital security measures. AIOps has the potential to significantly align well with the cybersecurity needs of a company. A cybersecurity department […]
Bringing NetOps Up to Speed With DevOps
Automation can be an unwieldy topic for network operations and DevOps teams who have enough challenges working together cohesively. Networks have been traditionally viewed as the long pole in the tent for emerging DevOps practices. But for DevOps practitioners and business leaders alike, there’s good news: NetOps are more prepared than ever to embrace automation […]
How IaC Bridges the Divide Between DevOps, Security
IaC provides a connection between security and DevOps teams in a subtle, non-intrusive manner Companies often choose DevOps as means to provide value and responsiveness through rapid, high-quality service delivery. Instead of traditional siloed development and operations teams, DevOps embraces multidisciplinary teams that share efficient practices and tools. Essential DevOps practices include agile planning, continuous […]
Oracle Extends Managed Cloud to On-Premises
Oracle today announced it will make available as a managed service in on-premises IT environments all of the software it currently provides access to on Oracle Cloud. In addition, Oracle is making available Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, which brings a managed database service to the Exadata servers optimized to run Oracle databases. Oracle […]
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this conflict originates from having charters that are seemingly in opposition to each other. At the surface, NetOps stands for connectivity, openness, speed and […]