Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

The Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong DevOps Leads

As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about the process and technology that make up a good DevOps practice. We have a strong focus on the development, IT operations, QA” and security roles. We debate tools and automation strategies. We wax philosophical about DevOps culture. What is either lacking entirely or simply […]

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Extending Cloud to Enable Intelligent Edge

In the last few years, with the emergence of 5G, IoT and AI, cloud providers have recognized the value and the importance of edge, and started building the infrastructure technologies to provide computing and connection between cloud and edge, as well as edge based intelligent services as part of their total cloud value proposition. However, […]

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The Cloud Is Booming — But so Is Cloud Waste

Fueled by the growth in cloud spend, cloud waste will exceed $17.6 billion in 2020. Over 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year. In fact, public cloud customers will spend more than $50 billion on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. This boom is, of […]

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Provide Continuous Value with Product-Centric Delivery

Software engineering and management has borrowed many practices over the years from traditional industries such as construction, automotive and manufacturing. One such practice is the notion of managing software development and delivery based on projects. According to the Project Management Institute (PMI), a project is defined as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique […]

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Customers and Commerce

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Quest Software Expands MDM Cloud Reach

Quest Software today extended the reach of its mobile device management (MDM) service to provide more granular control over mobile devices and applications in addition to being able to track their location. Capabilities being added to the KACE Cloud MDM service include support for a “Kiosk Mode” for Android devices that allows administrators to lock […]

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AWS Named as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services

Last week I spoke to executives from a large AWS customer and had an opportunity to share aspects of the Amazon culture with them. I was able to talk to them about our Leadership Principles and our Working Backwards model. They asked, as customers often do, about where we see the industry in the next […]

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Lenovo Looks to Automate Edge Computing

Lenovo is extending its IT automation framework for provisioning IT infrastructure out to edge computing platforms. Charles Ferland, vice president and general manager for networking and communications service providers at Lenovo Data Center Group, said the Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) framework provides a single pane of glass through which IT teams can not only […]

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A Deep Dive Into AI for IT Operations

Traditional IT administration and management techniques are reforming. By employing artificial intelligence (AI), IT operations are taking an interesting turn in the field of advancements. The term “AIOps” stands for Artificial Intelligence for the IT Operations. AIOps uses AI techniques and algorithms to monitor the data as well as reduce the blackout times. The dominance […]

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Don’t Let ‘Hindsight 2020’ Be Your DevOps Strategy

The idea of DevOps originated a little over a decade ago with a desire to ensure efficiency in the overall software development and delivery process. Constant operational hurdles that have been hampering flawless and frequent delivery of applications have led organizations to think beyond and to come up with continuous improvements in their processes and […]

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