Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Grafana Labs, has added a preview of managed service based on the Grafana observability platform to its portfolio of tools for managing cloud applications and infrastructure. The Grafana platform is based on an implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the […]
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 […]
Oracle Launches Managed JSON Database Service
Oracle today unfurled as standalone Autonomous JSON Database service that it will manage on behalf of developers that require a document database. Gerald Venzl, a developer evangelist and distinguished product manager for Oracle, said the Autonomous JSON Database service is based on support for JSON data types that Oracle currently provides in its Autonomous Database […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HPE Extends Reach of GreenLake Central
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made available HPE GreenLake Central, a self-service portal through which IT teams can collaboratively manage and monitor instances of servers deployed in IT environments that are managed by HPE on their behalf. At its core, HPE GreenLake is a managed service that allows IT organizations to pay for IT infrastructure on […]
COVID-19 Pandemic: Appian Offers Free HR App
Appian, a provider of a low-code platform for building applications, has decided to make available a free application to help organizations with 1,000 or more employees track healthcare incidents stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. Designed mainly for human resources (HR) professionals, the COVID-19 Response Management application is designed to track the health and work status […]
DevOps Chats: InfluxDB Cloud 2.0 Managed Service for Time Series Data
We can’t seem to generate enough data. And as they say, you haven’t seen anything yet! Cloud-based managed services are a natural solution to ingest, store and access large amounts of data from a variety of sources across private and cloud locations. An enterprise solution hosted in the cloud is good, but a developer-friendly, API-based […]
Eficode Adds Analytics to Managed DevOps Service
Eficode has added an analytics module to a DevOps platform it makes available as a managed service. Tuomas Keränen, product manager for Eficode ROOT, said Eficode ROOT Insights provides different types of end users with access to an analytics module designed to make it easier to understand how changes to a software development project will […]