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The Unprecedented Transformation of IT Goals in 2020

At the end of 2019, IT pros were making bold predictions about what 2020 would hold. But they weren't bold enough-time makes fools of us all, and hot takes fizzled rather than sizzled. From the continued evolution of smart devices and blockchain's continued rise in prominence to the falling price of compute workloads, there was rational thinking behind the predictions made at the end of 2019.

Virtana Awarded 'Customer First' Status by Gartner for ITOM (IT Operations Management); Receives All 5-Star Reviews

The Virtana team are excited to announce that we have pledged to be a Customer First vendor in the ITOM (IT Operations Management) market for our product(s): VirtualWisdom, CloudWisdom, Virtana Platform, Virtana Migrate (Cloud Migration Readiness). Our team takes great pride in this program commitment, as customer feedback continues to be a critical priority, and shapes our products and services. Everyone at Virtana is deeply proud to be part of the Customer First program.

Introducing Stackoscope For Serverless Applications

Here at Lumigo, we are focused on helping customers succeed with serverless and make it easier for them to build and run serverless applications in production. We love serverless and operate one of the largest serverless systems out there as we ingest and process billions of events from our customers. One thing many customers have asked us for help with is to identify misconfigured resources or places where they can improve by following best practices.

Press Release: Scout APM Raises $8M; acquires ExceptionTrap

Camber Partners, a private equity firm focused on product-led SaaS companies, announced that it has completed an investment in Scout APM, a leading provider of Application Performance Management (APM) software. Scout APM helps developers and application administrators gain insight into their software’s performance by providing monitoring of key metrics surrounding web-application performance.

Sumo Logic joins AWS to accelerate Amazon CloudWatch Metrics collection

We are excited to join AWS for the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams; a fully managed, scalable, and low latency service that streams Amazon CloudWatch metrics to partners via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. AWS and Sumo Logic customers can now leverage AWS Kinesis Firehose for Metrics Source for streaming CloudWatch metrics into their Sumo Logic accounts, to help simplify the monitoring and troubleshooting of AWS infrastructure, services, and applications.

What's new in Kubernetes 1.21?

This release brings 50 enhancements, up from 43 in Kubernetes 1.20 and 34 in Kubernetes 1.19. Of those 50 enhancements, 15 are graduating to Stable, 14 are existing features that keep improving, and a whopping 19 are completely new. It’s great to see old features, that have been around as long as 1.4, finally become GA. For example CronJob, PodDisruptionBudget, and sysctl support.

Exposing More Public Endpoints for Sending Metrics and Errors to AppSignal

Today, we launch a new feature: sending metrics and errors to AppSignal over our “Public Endpoint” API. AppSignal has many web frameworks, databases and background job frameworks automatically instrumented when you want to monitor a Node.js, Ruby or Elixir app. If you have code running on serverless architecture such as AWS Lambda, you can’t run our agent, so our standard integration with all of the out-of-the-box magic won’t work.

Sysdig Adds Unified Threat Detection Across Containers and Cloud to Combat Lateral Movement Attacks

Sysdig introduces continuous CSPM to the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform, multi-cloud threat detection for AWS and GCP, and a new free-forever cloud security tier. With 70% of cyberattack breaches utilizing lateral movement, Sysdig uniquely detects and responds to threats across cloud and containers.