Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

CircleCI Adds to Salesforce CI/CD Orbs Collection

CircleCI today announced it has extended its CI/CD support for DevOps teams building applications that extend the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform from Salesforce. Company CEO Jim Rose said interest in building applications that complement the Salesforce platform is rising sharply in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than build […]

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Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS

Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual […]

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DevOps and Security in a Cloud-Native World

DevOps teams have naturally embraced microservices and modern application delivery workflows. But, they may get pushback from risk-averse leadership or feel slowed by security teams who struggle to keep pace. Development teams that play a greater role in guiding their organization’s cloud transformations will ultimately come out ahead. These are some of the takeaways from […]

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AWS Glue version 2.0 featuring 10x faster job start times and 1-minute minimum billing duration

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. Glue is “serverless” – you don’t need to provision or manage any resources and you only pay for resources when Glue is actively running. AWS Glue version 2.0 is […]

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Elyra reaches 1.0.0

By Luciano Resende, Open Source AI Platform Architect, CODAIT, IBM Elyra is an open source project that extends the JupyterLab user interface to simplify the development of data science and AI models. Elyra is proud to announce its 1.0.0 release. If this is the first time you are hearing about Elyra, check out our announcement blog for more details […]

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Instana Applies DevOps to APM Agent Management

Instana has announced it has become the first provider of an application management platform (APM) to enable IT teams to automate the deployment of agent software to monitor IT environments using any Git repository of their choice. Jim Hirschauer, director of product management and sales enablement for Instana, said agent software used to instrument an […]

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CNCF Provides Jaeger Distributed Tracing Update

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has made available a report detailing the progress being made around the open source Jaeger distributed tracing software. Among other things, the report notes there are now more than 300 organizations contributing to the project. Jaeger is designed to provide a framework for monitoring microservices-based applications in a way […]

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Considering Hybrid Cloud? Focus on the Why

So much of business—and life in general—comes down to semantics. We articulate goals and measure success using a variety of terms. Some serve to clarify; others confuse. Consider the term “hybrid cloud”—a Google search yields 5.96 million results. So, yes, hybrid cloud is a hot topic, but what exactly do we mean by it? The […]

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How to Run a Remote GameDay

For those unfamiliar with the term, a GameDay is a dedicated day for running chaos engineering experiments on our systems with our team. The goal is cooperative, proactive testing of our system to enhance reliability. By getting the team together and thinking through your system architecture, you can test hypotheses and evaluate if your systems […]

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GitLab Makes Economic Case for DevOps Platform

GitLab is advancing its case for integrating as many DevOps processes as possible on a single platform by making available an economic analysis that claims organizations can improve application development and delivery by 87%, resulting in a savings of more than $23 million. Based on an analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of GitLab, […]

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