Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Welcome to AWS Storage Day

Everyone on the AWS team has been working non-stop to make sure that re:Invent 2019 is the biggest and best one yet. Way back in September, the entire team of AWS News Bloggers gathered in Seattle for a set of top-secret briefings. We listened to the teams, read their PRFAQs (Press Release + FAQ), and […]

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New – Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR)

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) has been around for more than a decade and is a fundamental AWS building block. You can use it to create persistent storage volumes that can store up to 16 TiB and supply up to 64,000 IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second). You can choose between four types of volumes, making […]

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S3 Replication Update: Replication SLA, Metrics, and Events

S3 Cross-Region Replication has been around since early 2015 (new Cross-Region Replication for Amazon S3), and Same-Region Replication has been around for a couple of months. Replication is very easy to set up, and lets you use rules to specify that you want to copy objects from one S3 bucket to another one. The rules […]

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Amazon FSx For Windows File Server Update – Multi-AZ, & New Enterprise-Ready Features

Last year I told you about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server — Fast, Fully Managed, and Secure. That launch was well-received, and our customers (Neiman Marcus, Ancestry, Logicworks, and Qube Research & Technologies to name a few) are making great use of the service. They love the fact that they can access their shares […]

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Tasktop Announces More Than 23,000 Copies of Dr. Mik Kersten’s Best-Selling Project to Product Book Sold in First Year

Founder & CEO’s Book Defines the Roadmap for Digital Transformation   VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 20, 2019 — Tasktop, the leader in Value Stream Integration and Management, today provided first-year sales figures for Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, the best-selling book by Tasktop […]

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DevOps Institute Announces ‘Global SKILup Day’ Agenda For December 10

New speakers confirmed to lead ‘how-to’ DevOps sessions on SRE, BizDevOps, Agile service management, soft skills and much more at the world’s first continuous learning virtual upskilling event BOCA RATON, Fla. – November 20, 2019 – DevOps Institute, a global member-based association for advancing the human elements of DevOps, has finalized the agenda for Global […]

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Cloudbees Is A Launch Partner For Google Cloud Run As Product Goes Ga

Industry Leaders Collaborate to Offer Streamlined Deployment of Containerized Applications, Better Access to CloudBees Solutions on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace   GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT, LONDON AND SAN JOSE, CA. – November 20, 2019 – CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today announced an extension of its partnership with Google. As a Google […]

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Jenkins X Continues To Experience Strong Demand, Speeding Development Of Cloud Native Applications

CloudBees introduces first GUI for Jenkins X as downloads, contributors and corporate support to the open source project grow   KUBECON SAN DIEGO, CA. AND SAN JOSE, CA. – November 20, 2019 – CloudBees, the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today introduced a graphical user interface (GUI) for Jenkins X at KubeCon San […]

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The Phoenicorn Project

The Unicorn Project is the sequel to the ground-breaking book The Phoenix Project. Most people know the story about Bill the IT manager at Parts Unlimited, who is tasked with fixing a derailed IT project or having his IT department outsourced. The Unicorn Project takes it a step further, with developer and architect Maxine in […]

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New – Using Step Functions to Orchestrate Amazon EMR Workloads

AWS Step Functions allows you to add serverless workflow automation to your applications. The steps of your workflow can run anywhere, including in AWS Lambda functions, on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or on-premises. To simplify building workflows, Step Functions is directly integrated with multiple AWS Services: Amazon ECS, AWS Fargate, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple […]

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