Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools

Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]

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Report Finds Much Room for CD Improvement

A report published by Harness, a provider of continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed via the cloud, finds organizations are spending on average $109,0000 per year just to deploy applications. Based on a survey of more than 100 organizations, the report finds organizations are struggling with deployment frequency, lead time and meantime to recover after a […]

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Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities

OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]

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A Prescription to End the Myopia of Software Metrics

“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!,” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review. As someone who has purchased many drills in my life—and drilled my share of holes—this quote has always struck me as a bit, well, myopic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing with the sentiment behind the quote—that organizations […]

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AIOps 2020: IT Talent Is the Game-Changer

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is a fairly new catch-all term for any multi-layered development initiative involving big data analytics, machine learning and/or AI to automate and solve business and IT problems. Definitions vary, but most support the notion that AIOps improve IT performance, infrastructure, cloud and operations. This is a dramatic shift in […]

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GigaSpaces Embraces Kubernetes Alternative for DataOps

GigaSpaces has added a DataOps framework to its in-memory computing platform that provides an alternative to Kubernetes by employing Nomad software from HashiCorp as a scheduler. Yoav Einav, vice president of product for GigaSpaces, said many enterprise IT organizations aren’t in a position to adopt Kubernetes, yet they still need a means to embrace best […]

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IBM Research – Confidentiality and Governance of Cloud Services 

Our team has spent months developing, tuning and perfecting a complex deep neural network to classify important financial, medical or government data. The application has been containerized, packaged, and is finally ready to deploy as a public service on the cloud, but one thing stands in the way. How do you get assurance that your […]

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IBM Boosts Security and Productivity with Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud

As more businesses journey to the cloud, they need ways to easily deploy and manage their critical workloads securely across public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises environments. This is particularly crucial when faced with the ongoing demands to support remote workforces. The IBM public cloud has been rebuilt on a foundation of open source innovation, […]

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6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Out Your AI Tools

Enterprise-level companies, with thousands of employees across the globe, can have their AI framework replicated by B2B companies of nearly any size. In fact, even without access to a ton of proprietary data and immense computational power, you can build out effective AI tools. To begin with, you can introduce publicly available datasets from movie […]

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3 Ways DevOps Can Increase the Value of Organizational Data

There’s a reason the term “data mining” came into existence. Enterprises sit on a vast resource of information—millions of digital gems that, if fully extracted, can not only answer many of their toughest questions, but also help them meet their most ambitious organizational goals. DevOps professionals have a unique opportunity to impact this mining process. […]

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