Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Survey Finds SRE Role Remains Largely Aspirational

Monitoring tools provider Catchpoint, in collaboration with the DevOps Institute, has published a survey that finds there is a significant gap between the tasks and duties that define the role of what a site reliability engineer (SRE) should be versus what is actually occurring within IT organizations that have hired SREs. Based on a survey […]

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Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows

Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues. Relay connects to […]

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SaltStack Looks to Automate DevSecOps Processes

SaltStack announced today it has integrated its automation framework with a variety of third-party security platforms to further the adoption of best DevSecOps processes. Mehul Revankar, director of product management for SaltStack, said version 6.3 of SaltStack Enterprise provides integration with offerings from Splunk, Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and Kenna Security. Data generated from vulnerability scans […]

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Introducing Amazon Honeycode – Build Web & Mobile Apps Without Writing Code

VisiCalc was launched in 1979, and I purchased a copy (shown at right) for my Apple II. The spreadsheet model was clean, easy to use, and most of all, easy to teach. I was working in a retail computer store at that time, and knew that this product was a big deal when customers started […]

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Puppet Introduces Public Beta of Relay for Cloud Native, Event-Driven Automation

Relay listens to signals, triggers workflows and orchestrates hundreds of cloud providers, tools, and APIs PORTLAND, Ore., June 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Puppet, the industry standard for infrastructure automation, today introduced the public beta availability of Relay, an event-driven automation platform. Relay automates processes across any cloud infrastructure, tools and APIs that developers, DevOps engineers, […]

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SQream Raises $39.4 Million in Series B+ Financing Round to Accelerate its Deep Tech Product Innovation for the Rapid Analytics of Massive Data Stores

New York, NY, JUNE 24, 2020 – SQream, provider of a data analytics acceleration platform that enables enterprises to gain insights from their massive data stores, announced today that it has raised $39.4 million in Series B+ funding. The round was led by Mangrove Capital Partners and Schusterman Family Investments, who joined existing investors, including Hanaco Venture […]

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Blog for Good? Codefresh Rewards Guest Bloggers with Donations to Six Non-Profits

Codefresh to support six organizations benefiting the black community, LGBT, health of women and girls, COVID-19 efforts, and more with help from DevOps guest bloggers Mountain View, CA, June 24, 2020 – Codefresh has launched a creative way to get funds into the hands of non-profit organizations while tapping the talent of bloggers who write about CI/CD, Kubernetes, […]

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LF Energy Launches Digital Substation Initiative to Modernize Power Grid Infrastructure

Linux Foundation organization, LF Energy, with GE Renewable Energy, Schneider Electric and RTE, also launched CoMPAS to make substation systems interoperable as part of this initiative SAN FRANCISCO, June 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit coalition that seeks to radically improve power grid infrastructure through open-source projects, today launched its Digital Substation Automation Systems (DSAS) […]

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Nebulon Unveils Hybrid Cloud Computing Platform

Nebulon has emerged from stealth to launch a hybrid cloud computing platform that enables workloads to be processed in the cloud while data continues to be stored on a local application server. Company COO Craig Nunes said the Cloud-Defined Storage platform employs PCIe cards embedded with a Nebulon Services Processing Unit (SPU) based on an […]

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Eclipse Foundation Touts Jakarta Progress

The Eclipse Foundation today published the results of survey of 2,180 software developers that finds over half of respondents (55%) have adopted Java/Jakarta EE 8. In addition, the Eclipse Foundation is making available an update to the Jakarta Enterprise Edition (EE) specification that will move away from the javax namespace to embrace jakarta namespaces for […]

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