Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud

One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]

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Tips For Managing Development Teams Remotely During Coronavirus

Thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, around a third of the world’s population is on lockdown in their homes, which means a huge number of businesses are currently trying to navigate remote working solutions. Trying to collaborate on software development is difficult at the best of times when your team is all in the same […]

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Tips on Rightsizing to Reduce AWS Costs Now

In this business climate, everyone is looking to reduce costs. CFOs are reevaluating their software and infrastructure spend, and naturally, companies are looking for ways to optimize their AWS costs. In fact, we are now leveraging a major reason cloud is so compelling in the first place: you have more flexibility to control costs based […]

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ClickShare Vulnerabilities May Have Been Patched, But They Mask a Much Bigger Problem

I think we can all recall a time in recent memory where, in a meeting or at a conference, someone has had issues with presentation technology. It happens so often that there is almost an expectation of a clunky experience, at least initially. It stands as no surprise, then, that ClickShare’s seamless app was immediately […]

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Capacity-Optimized Spot Instance Allocation in Action at Mobileye and Skyscanner

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances were launched way back in 2009. The instances are spare EC2 compute capacity that is available at savings of up to 90% when compared to the On-Demand prices. Spot Instances can be interrupted by EC2 (with a two minute heads-up), but are otherwise the same as On-Demand instances. You can use […]

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AWS Snowball Edge Update – Faster Hardware, OpsHub GUI, IAM, and AWS Systems Manager

Over the last couple of years I’ve told you about several members of the “Snow” family of edge computing and data transfer devices – The original Snowball, the more-powerful Snowball Edge, and the exabyte-scale Snowmobile. Today I would like to tell you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge. Here’s what I have for you […]

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VMware Makes vRealize Automation Framework Available via the Cloud

VMware this week announced it has made a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its vRealize automation platform generally available. Taruna Gandhi, senior director for product and technical marketing at VMware, said VMware vRealize Operation Cloud will make IT automation more accessible to a broader swath of organizations that might not be able to implement IT automation […]

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Twilio Provides 90-Day Free Developer Access to Video Service

Twilio this week announced it will make its video services available for free for three months to developers who are building applications to address COVID-19 pandemic uses cases in the health care, education and nonprofit sectors if they sign up to use the platform before June 30. Jesper Joergensen, general manager for voice and video […]

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AWS Data Transfer Out (DTO) 40% Price Reduction in South America (São Paulo) Region

I have good news for AWS customers using our South America (São Paulo) Region. Effective April 1, 2020 we are reducing prices for Data Transfer Out to the Internet (DTO) from the South America (São Paulo) Region by 40%. Data Transfer in remains free. Here are the new prices for DTO from EC2, S3, and […]

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Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?

We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]

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