Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Introducing AWS Snowcone – A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device

Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge, and Snowball Edge Support for AWS Systems Manager. AWS Snowcone Today I would like […]

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Survey Shows Accelerated Shift to Cloud, With Caveats

A survey of 250 IT leaders published by Snow Software, a provider of software asset management software, finds 91% are changing their cloud strategy in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey also finds twice as many respondents report they are accelerating cloud migration (45%) and digital transformation […]

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Report: Confidence in Digital Transformation Lacking

Results of a recent survey conducted by the Corporate Board Member Institute shows a majority of respondents see their organizations’ digital transformation efforts aren’t keeping pace with the current business environment. The survey polled more than 200 directors of public companies in February, before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, and the results […]

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Wasabi Launches New Marketing Campaign to Empower the Oft-Overlooked IT Professional

Nate, the IT Hero Serves as the Face of the Campaign and Urges Cloud Migration “Before It’s Too Late” Boston, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, today launched a digital campaign (#MigrateWithNate) featuring, ‘Nate,’ the every-person IT pro with a critical message directed squarely at businesses: “Enterprises need to move their […]

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FortressIQ and Blue Prism Team Up to Accelerate Enterprise Automation

ogether, FortressIQ and Blue Prism enable companies to harness the power of the Digital Workforce with greater speed, agility, and scale SAN FRANCISCO – June 17, 2020 – FortressIQ, the company delivering end-to-end process insights for the modern enterprise, and Blue Prism, a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), today announced a strategic partnership that brings […]

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Contentful secures $80M in Series E Funding, announces new CMO, and scales rapidly to power the digital-first era

Contentful is leading a major industry shift away from traditional content management systems to an omnichannel content platform SAN FRANCISCO, June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Contentful announced today $80 million in Series E funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and five other new and existing backers. This round brings Contentful’s […]

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New – A Shared File System for Your Lambda Functions

I am very happy to announce that AWS Lambda functions can now mount an Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), a scalable and elastic NFS file system storing data within and across multiple availability zones (AZ) for high availability and durability. In this way, you can use a familiar file system interface to store and share data across […]

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DataStax Brings AIOps to Cassandra Database Management

DataStax today unveiled a private beta release of artificial intelligence tool dubbed Vector that provides advice on how to optimize clusters running the open source Cassandra wide column store database. Vector analyzes individual nodes and then compares behavior to other nodes in the cluster to identify opportunities to improve deployments. Ed Anuff, chief product officer […]

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Eggplant Injects AI Into Application Testing

Eggplant has infused its automated testing platform with deep learning algorithms that automatically identify and classify user interface (UI) elements such as buttons and text fields across any platform and then generate all the automation assets needed to instantly run a test. In addition, Eggplant has made it easier to visualize the overlap between common […]

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How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape

Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]

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