Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Redgate Software demonstrates ethical selling approach with two big wins at the BESMA Awards

Cambridge UK, Tuesday 27 November 2018 – The recent British Excellence in Sales Management Awards saw Redgate Software doubly rewarded for its efforts in instilling an ethical sales culture. The leading Microsoft data platform tools vendor won gold in both the Sales Director and Key Account Manager of the Year categories. Now in its 12th […]

0 Comments

Read More

AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Monday Night Live

As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Monday Night Live! Launches Here are detailed blog posts & whats new pages for tonight’s launches: AWS Global Accelerator for Availability and Performance. Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture. C5n Instances with 100 […]

0 Comments

Read More

Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing

One of my favorite Amazon Leadership Principles is Customer Obsession. When we launched AWS Lambda, we focused on giving developers a secure serverless experience so that they could avoid managing infrastructure. In order to attain the desired level of isolation we used dedicated EC2 instances for each customer. This approach allowed us to meet our […]

0 Comments

Read More

New C5n Instances with 100 Gbps Networking

We launched the powerful, compute-intensive C5 instances last year, and followed up with the C5d instances earlier this year with the addition of local NVMe storage. Both instances are built on the AWS Nitro system and are powered by AWS-custom 3.0 Ghz Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8000 series processors. They are designed for compute-heavy applications such […]

0 Comments

Read More

New – EC2 Instances (A1) Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors

Earlier this year I told you about the AWS Nitro System and promised you that it would allow us to “deliver new instance types more quickly than ever in the months to come.” Since I made that promise we have launched memory-intensive R5 and R5d instances, high frequency z1d instances, burstable T3 instances, high memory […]

0 Comments

Read More

New – Use an AWS Transit Gateway to Simplify Your Network Architecture

It is safe to say that Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is one of the most useful and central features of AWS. Our customers configure their VPCs in a wide variety of ways, and take advantage of numerous connectivity options and gateways including AWS Direct Connect (via Direct Connect Gateways), NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Egress-Only Internet […]

0 Comments

Read More

Electric Cloud Named a ‘Leader’ for Continuous Delivery Release Automation by an Independent Research Firm

Company Achieves Highest Scores in Current Offering and Strategy, Recognized for Maintaining Strong Commitment to Supporting DevOps Community and for Being Ahead of Other Evaluated Vendors in Applying Advanced Analytics to Continuous Delivery SAN JOSE, Calif., November 26, 2018 — Electric Cloud (https://electric-cloud.com/), the leader in Adaptive Release Orchestration and Continuous Delivery, today announced it was named […]

0 Comments

Read More

Orkus Exits Stealth, Launches the Orkus Access Governance Platform So Enterprises Can Prevent Unauthorized Access in the Cloud

Customers Such as BSI Financial Are Using Orkus to Automate And Secure Access and Authorization to Infrastructure, Data and Privileged Identities in Cloud Environments Las Vegas, Nevada, AWS re:Invent, November 26, 2018 – Orkus, Inc., today announced it has formally entered the marketplace with the launch of the Orkus Access Governance Platform. As enterprises move […]

0 Comments

Read More

VMware Wavefront Adds AI, Distributed Tracing

VMware has updated its Wavefront monitoring service to include support for distributed tracing along with anomaly detection capabilities enabled by machine learning algorithms. Stela Udovicic, senior director for product marketing for Wavefront by VMware, said the addition of the distributed tracing support, now available as part of a public beta, means that a single monitoring […]

0 Comments

Read More

Logz.io Launches Metrics Application, Unveiling the Only Unified Solution for Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Security built on ELK and Grafana

Logz.io Will Showcase Grafana-based app at AWS re:Invent BOSTON and TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 26, 2018 — Logz.io, an intelligent and scalable machine data analytics platform, is expanding their core platform capabilities to include Grafana, the most popular open source tool for analyzing metrics and time-series data. Through adding this metrics capability, Logz.io is enabling engineers to […]

0 Comments

Read More