Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Insight IGNITE: DevOps, Cloud and Cyber From Iceland With Love

I had the pleasure recently of attending my first Insight IGNITE event, which was held at the ION Adventure Hotel in enchanting Iceland. It was also my first trip to Iceland. These two new experiences combined to deliver an excellent learning and networking experience, resulting in me realizing more than several new insights (pun intended) […]

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Harness Invests in Automating Continuous Delivery

Fresh off raising an additional $60 million in funding, Harness plans to make more investments in machine learning algorithms to advance continuous delivery through automation. Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal said the startup, which he co-founded with Rishi Singh, a former DevOps platform architect at Apple, is now in a position to invest more aggressively in […]

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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Chasing DevOps Transformation

In less than a decade, DevOps has become a buzzword of the IT industry, and enterprises are already reaping its benefits. But the implementation part still remains a question for many firms, considering the key mistakes that many organizations report in their very approach to DevOps. Most firms are also unsure about what outcomes they […]

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Digital Transformation: Measuring What Matters

As enterprises strive to digitize their organizations, whether it’s digitally transforming aspects of sales and marketing, customer interactions or supply chain, they’re undergoing a wholesale revamp of traditional businesses into digital business models. While some companies are just getting started, as we covered earlier this month in Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, the bulk of […]

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AWS re:Inforce 2019 – Security, Identity, and Compliance

AWS re:Inforce, our new conference dedicated to cloud security, opens in Boston on June 25th. We’re expecting about 8,000 attendees, making this bigger than the first re:Invent! Just like re:Invent, re:Inforce is a learning conference for builders. With over 300 breakout sessions (intermediate, advanced, and expert) spanning four tracks and a virtual Capture The Flag […]

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Instana Automatic APM Now Available in Amazon AWS Marketplace

AWS Users Can Seamlessly Install and Purchase Automatic Application Monitoring and Tracing SAN FRANCISCO AND SOLINGEN, GERMANY  – APRIL 19, 2019 Instana, the leading provider of Automatic Application Monitoring (APM) solutions for cloud-native applications, today announced that its automatic APM solution is available for purchase in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. AWS subscribers can now acquire Instana […]

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DevOps Chat: Future of the ‘Accelerate: State of DevOps’ Report with Nicole Forsgren

“Accelerate – The State of DevOps Report” by Dr. Nicole Forsgren and the folks at DORA (now part of Google) is far and away the most widely cited research in the DevOps field. Dr. Nicole and her team have brought scientific rigor to the survey over these past six years and the results show it. […]

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The DevOps Institute Has Been Brandjacked

Sadly, another organization has decided to brandjack the DevOps Institute name. Quickstart, an e-learning organization based in Austin, Texas, recently approached DevOps Institute about becoming a channel e-learning partner. Instead of joining our partner community, Quickstart chose to stand up another “DevOps Institute.” Since they were in communication with the actual DevOps Institute as late […]

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What Can Automation Learn From DevOps?

A recent Capgemini survey revealed that while enterprise-scale automation is still in its infancy, IT automation projects are moving along. IT is starting to view automation less tactically and more strategically. The Capgemini survey also showed that IT automation can be responsible for several quick wins, including self-healing, event correlation, diagnostics, application releases, cybersecurity monitoring […]

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The Right DevOps Tool for the Job

Innovation and environment are only two factors in determining which DevOps tools are best for your organization Any time there is a movement in IT that involves a new space and new toolsets, there is sudden growth, then inevitably consolidation and, finally, a selection of tools that suit the needs of most customers. Then the […]

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