Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?

Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]

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Atlassian Extends Road Mapping in Jira

Atlassian has updated its Jira project management software for managing software development initiatives to add more capabilities to road mapping tools that teams use to share plans and update progress. Matt Ryall, head of product for Jira Software at Atlassian, said the road mapping tools first provided in Jira a year ago are now being […]

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Setting Up Google Authenticator on Multiple Servers

Google Authenticator is pretty great. It allows me as an administrator to set up and configure multi-factor authentication into my UNIX boxes without having to spend money on a tool like YubiKey or RSA tokens. It’s easy to set up on any type of phone—no specialized hardware or dongles needed. It’s also pretty cool in […]

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SRE Is the Most Innovative Approach to ITSM Since ITIL

For over a decade, ITIL has been the leading ITSM framework adopted by enterprises across the globe. So, what is driving a rapidly increasing interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a service management alternative? In its own words, Google refers to SRE as its approach to service management: “The SRE team is responsible for […]

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DevOps Chat: Increasing Delivery Velocity, with Launchable

Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK) and respected DevOps veteran Harpreet Singh have launched a new company called Launchable. Launchable aims to help you improve your delivery velocity by prioritizing and applying some ML and intelligence to testing. There is still much work to be done but with these two industry luminaries behind it, the expectations […]

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IBM Cloud Annotations Tool eases the process of AI data labeling

A new automated labeling tool in the open source Cloud Annotations project makes it easier for developers to label data without having to manually draw… Faced with the daunting task of hand labeling thousands of images, developers are looking for an easier way to train their object detection models. Currently, it takes 200-500 samples of […]

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Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology

The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or […]

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Developing Apps for IOS 13: Things to Consider

Authors of numerous articles and videos have covered all the bells and whistles built into iOS 13, the latest major iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system. Rather than diving into all of these perks, though, I will focus on the changes for app developers. As it often happens, Apple introduced many proprietary applications that successfully […]

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Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT

Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […]

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Instana Adds Vsphere Support To Automated Microservice Application And Infrastructure Monitoring Solution

Leading APM Solution for Orchestrated Containers Now Able to Monitor Across Physical, Virtual and Cloud Environments. Chicago – January 29, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of automatic Application Performance Management (APM) solutions for microservice applications, today announced new capabilities for monitoring the VMware vSphere Suite, as well as applications running on vSphere infrastructure. Known […]

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