Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Prime Day 2021 – Two Chart-Topping Days

In what has now become an annual tradition (check out my 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020 posts for a look back), I am happy to share some of the metrics from this year’s Prime Day and to tell you how AWS helped to make it happen. This year I bought all sorts of useful goodies […]

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No More Status Quo: Disruption and Reinvention through The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche

Everyday we’re reinventing ourselves. Whether we’re reinventing knowledge through learning, or technology through development, nothing stays stagnant and disruption makes sure of that. In a TechStrong TV segment, MediaOps Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel sits down with Brad Feld, current managing director at Foundry Group and author of “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for […]

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Managing Cloud Governance Costs Collaboratively

For those responsible for managing infrastructure, the concept of governance is common, especially as it relates to cloud services. For cloud services, it’s defined as a framework that guides how end users use these services by defining and creating policies to control costs, minimize security risks, improve efficiency and accelerate deployment. The term is often […]

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The Forces Massing Against the Data Center

We’ve come a long way over the last few decades. A ton of stuff about IT has changed, even in the last five years. And it is true in IT that the only constant is change. We like to have control of our environment to provide the most stable platform for user satisfaction that we […]

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Status Symbols

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Applitools Extends Visual AI Testing to Native Mobile Apps

At its online Future of Testing: Mobile event, Applitools today previewed the ability to apply visual artificial intelligence (AI) to applications that run natively on a mobile computing platform. Accessed via a cloud service that is currently available for free on a limited basis, the Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile offering will extend the […]

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Fugue Aims to Simplify Securing Infrastructure-as-Code

Fugue today unveiled a 1.0 release for Regula, an open source policy engine for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security that comes with prebuilt libraries for implementing hundreds of policies that validate configurations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud services. Regula is based on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the […]

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JFrog Acquires Vdoo to Advance DevSecOps

JFrog today announced it has agreed to acquire Vdoo for $300 million in cash to gain a set of analytics tools that discover vulnerabilities in application binaries. Vdoo’s scanning tools, infused with machine learning algorithms, will be fully integrated with the JFrog Xray vulnerability detection tools along with the rest of the JFrog continuous integration/continuous […]

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Best Practices for Cloud Incident Response

Cloud computing is now mainstream, with almost all organizations running at least some resources in the public cloud—whether software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Security teams have been scrambling to adapt to cloud environments, and with the growing adoption of DevSecOps, they are working together with DevOps teams to secure cloud systems from the […]

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Continuous Testing Practices – Part 3

In my prior blog, Continuous Testing – The Quest for Quality at Speed, I described five tenets and some of the practices for continuous testing to help with understanding what continuous testing is. In my consulting work, I find it necessary to use 15 categories of practices to assess an organizations’ continuous testing capabilities. Given […]

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