Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

There’s No Such Thing as an Open Source Business Model

Open source technology works best when it’s adopted as a series of strategies and tactics that support a core business model—not the other way around. With all the talk about open source business models, the title of this article might seem a bit odd—especially when is written by someone whose entire job is to support […]

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DigiCert Launches CT Log Monitoring, Now Available in Secure Site Pro

With access to DigiCert CertCentral® for easy certificate management, Secure Site Pro provides advanced brand and website threat protection, as well as a new PQC test kit LEHI, Utah (December 10, 2019) — DigiCert, Inc., the world’s leading provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions, today released a new CT log monitoring service for advanced […]

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Survey Sees Massive Adoption of Microservices

Under increasing pressure to innovate faster, a majority (84%) of organizations taking part in a recent survey have already embraced microservices. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree […]

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Infrastructure as Code and Six Key Automation Concepts

This summer, I walked into an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) flame war because I was blissfully unaware of just how broadly IaC had been reinterpreted. Reviewing the comments, it’s clear that thinking has evolved since Kief Morris’ 2016 Infrastructure as Code tomb. So, after strapping on my asbestos suit, I decided to dig into what […]

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Why Is Security Missing in Many DevOps Implementations?

The exceptional and ground-breaking, technology-driven opportunities in today’s digitized age come with significant competitive pressures to transform promptly. Specific demands increase due to continuous repeating in response to customer preferences becomes the more deep-seated expectation. To overcome this issue, organizations are shifting toward DevOps as a medium to deliver innovations quickly. DevOps also promotes innovation […]

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HashiCorp Advances Open Source Consul Service Mesh

HashiCorp this week updated its Consul service mesh to make it easier to manage namespaces across multiple services. Previously, DevOps teams would have to manually ensure each namespace assigned to a group of services did not conflict with each other. The release of 1.7 of Consul enables teams to restrict access to services residing in […]

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The Eclipse Foundation Launches The Edge Native Working Group to Deliver Production-Grade Code for Open Source Edge Computing

New Working Group includes founding members ADLINK, Bosch, Edgeworx, Eurotech, Huawei, Intel, Kynetics, and Siemens –    – New Working Group Showcased at Edge Computing World – SAN JOSE, Calif. – DECEMBER 10, 2019 – The Eclipse Foundation today announced the launch of the Edge Native Working Group, a vendor-neutral and code-first industry collaboration that […]

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Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops

A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […]

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Emerging Patterns in SRE Implementation

First we were told that every company will become a technology company. Then the tides shifted to every company will become a DevOps company. Now the zeitgeist has a new obsession: Every company will become a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) company. Have you been keeping pace? If your company survived the ruthless restructuring of digital […]

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How Can IT Admins Maintain a Grip on Secure Access?

Today’s IT environment is evolving at a rapid pace, requiring production environments to be highly scalable and elastic and requiring faster software release cycles and cloud adoption. As a result, there’s a broad move toward Docker containers to make software deployment faster, easier and more consistent across computing environments. Bundling an application and its supporting […]

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