Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS App2Container – A New Containerizing Tool for Java and .NET Applications

Our customers are increasingly developing their new applications with containers and serverless technologies, and are using modern continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) tools to automate the software delivery life cycle. They also maintain a large number of existing applications that are built and managed manually or using legacy systems. Maintaining these two sets of applications […]

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Amazon RDS Proxy – Now Generally Available

At AWS re:Invent 2019, we launched the preview of Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. Following the preview of MySQL engine, we extended to the PostgreSQL compatibility. Today, I am pleased to […]

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Commvault Extends Data Protection Alliance with Microsoft

Commvault and Microsoft are extending their existing relationship to integrate Commvault’s data protection software with Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is a service based on object-based storage optimized for unstructured data. Commvault last year launched the Metallic software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, which provides a cloud-based approach to managing data protection, that runs on Azure. The […]

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Businesses Modernizing Apps in Wake of Pandemic

A survey of 5,000 business decision-makers, IT decision-makers and app developers published suggests organizations are taking advantage of the crisis created by the global COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the modernizing of apps using DevOps practices. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne, the survey finds 80% of respondents said organizations must modernize the technologies […]

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Kong Donates Kuma Service Mesh to the CNCF

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced today it has accepted the open source Kuma service mesh developed by Kong as a sandbox level project. At the same time, Kong announced an update to the service mesh for monolithic and microservices-based applications that makes it easier to deploy multi-tenant instances of Kuma across multiple types […]

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ShiftLeft Announces New Developer-Focused Next Generation Static Analysis Solution that Increases Application Security Productivity by 5X

ShiftLeft’s customer data demonstrates the new release of its SAST solution allows organizations to fix 70% of new vulnerabilities in less than three weeks, proving the power of inserting security into the modern SDLC Santa Clara, Calif. – June 30, 2020 – ShiftLeft, Inc., an innovator in automated application security, released a new version of […]

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Why is Site Reliability Engineering Important?

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is one of the fastest-growing enterprise roles and set of operational practices for managing services at scale. During the Site Reliability Engineering SKILup Day June 18, I asked a group of the DevOps Institute Ambassadors why SRE was important to them. Below you will find some insightful responses, tips and calls […]

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Find Your Most Expensive Lines of Code – Amazon CodeGuru Is Now Generally Available

Bringing new applications into production, maintaining their code base as they grow and evolve, and at the same time respond to operational issues, is a challenging task. For this reason, you can find many ideas on how to structure your teams, on which methodologies to apply, and how to safely automate your software delivery pipeline. At […]

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PionerasDev wins IBM Open Source Community Grant to increase women’s participation in programming

By Todd Moore, Guillermo Miranda Last fall, IBM’s open source community announced a new quarterly grant to award nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to education, inclusiveness, and skill-building for women, underrepresented minorities, and underserved communities in the open source world. The Open Source Community Grant aims to help create new tech opportunities for underrepresented communities […]

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IBM and LFAI move forward on trustworthy and responsible AI

By Todd Moore, Sriram Raghavan, Aleksandra Mojsilovic For over a century, IBM has created technologies that profoundly changed how humans work and live: the personal computer, ATM, magnetic tape, Fortran Programming Language, floppy disk, scanning tunneling microscope, relational database, and most recently, quantum computing, to name a few. With trust as one of our core […]

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