Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward

A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications. The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF […]

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DevOps Chats: Swiss, Simple Secure Collaboration with Adeya

The current situation with so many working from home has shined a spotlight on potential security issues with many of our collaboration solutions. Adeya, says they have the answer, offering Swiss, simple collaboration on a military grade scale. I sat down with Francois Rodriguez of Adeya’s executive team to discuss what makes Adeya both simple […]

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SRE (Part 2): A Practical Approach

In my last piece on cultural SRE, I covered the basics of defining what SRE means for your team. However, some teams may not need dedicated SRE support. This is where the central organization comes in handy. Dedicated resources are focused on building guidelines, standards, services and platforms for teams to consume that can operate […]

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Three Priorities for IT Operations Continuity During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The world has been turned upside down amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and organizations that are trying to maintain best IT and security practices are faced with new challenges such as sudden remote workforces, increased COVID-19-related phishing and business e-mail compromise scams, and quarantine-imposed travel restrictions.  Are you facing disruptions in your workforce, limitations in the […]

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CD Foundation Serves Up Tekton Pipelines Beta

The team overseeing the development of the open source Tekton Pipelines under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery (CD) Foundation announced today the project is now in beta. Christie Wilson, Tekton Project Lead and a software engineer at Google, said Tekton Pipelines are not necessarily a tool most DevOps teams will interact with directly. Rather […]

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Syncfusion Releases Essential Studio 2020 Volume 1

Latest version brings new Kanban, Progress Bar, and Card controls to comprehensive Blazor suite Research Triangle Park, N.C., April 09, 2020—Syncfusion, Inc. announced today the release of Essential Studio 2020 Volume 1. The highlights of this release include new Kanban, Progress Bar, and Card controls in preview for the Blazor suite and the move of 11 other […]

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Google Names CloudBees App Dev Partner of the Year

Google this week named CloudBees its 2019 Cloud Technology Partner of the Year for Application Development at a time when the rate at which application workloads are heading into the cloud is expected to accelerate. Beyond the Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), CloudBees also makes available a software-as-a-service […]

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IBM and CGI U partner on the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge University Edition to take on COVID-19 and climate change

Encouraging students to help tackle the world’s reaction to COVID-19 and climate change. By Dennis Bly Published April 9, 2020 Since Call for Code was announced two years ago by Founding Partner IBM, Creator David Clark Cause, and Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, we learned two important points in the process of tackling some […]

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Sysdig Extends Cloud Monitoring Alliance With IBM

Sysdig and IBM announced they have extended their alliance to make Sysdig monitoring tools more broadly available across IBM public cloud services. IBM first adopted the Sysdig platform to enable DevOps teams to monitor workloads running on a subset of the IBM Cloud in June 2018. Now the company will extend those managed instances of […]

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Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports Amazon EFS file systems

It has only been five years since Jeff wrote on this blog about the launch of the Amazon Elastic Container Service. I remember reading that post and thinking how exotic and unusual containers sounded. Fast forward just five years, and containers are an everyday part of most developers lives, but whilst customers are increasingly adopting […]

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