Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

3 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Stalled

The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization is a company priority, yet only 40% of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale … [and] without a shared vision across the […]

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Don’t Look at This! IT’S A SECRET!

To continue the discussion about secrets after perusing this excellent report by GitGuardian—last time I went a little nuts about the number of secrets exposed in IT folks’ personal repositories. And it is a lot. I mean a lot of secrets. But you know what is scarier than, “A lot of secrets are leaked in […]

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Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Volumes with Amazon EC2 R5b Instances Are Now Generally Available

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, the next-generation server storage architecture that delivers the first SAN built for the cloud. Block Express is designed to meet the requirements of the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and SAS Analytics on AWS. Today, I […]

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Why IT Should Focus on Quality Over Velocity

Quality assurance (QA) isn’t a new phrase for developers. Most know it as a staple part of the software process that is crucial for producing quality code. But throughout the pandemic, with extreme pressure for businesses to digitally transform quickly, it’s a discipline at risk of being dismissed by organizations and tech leaders as a […]

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NS1 Touts a Common Delivery Platform for Devs and Ops

NS1 has extended the capabilities of its DNS and network management platform with the release of NS1 Connect. The platform is designed to serve as a delivery platform that integrates developer and network operations teams’ tasks for the creation and management of applications across highly distributed cloud-native and on-premises environments. While DevOps teams typically rely […]

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A Context of Life

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Why You Should Embrace Incidents and Ditch MTTR

The cliché is that everyone in IT hates incidents, and the natural reaction when assembling incident response metrics is to look for numbers that you can lower over time. Fewer incidents and shorter incident response times must be better, we think. You might already be familiar with the common metrics associated with these goals, including […]

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Engineering Applications for DevOps (Part 6)

This blog series explains how to engineer applications for DevOps. Topics covered in this blog series include: • Factors used to decide whether an application is a good candidate for DevOps. • Practices to engineer designs for DevOps. • DevOps applied to enterprise apps and software services. • DevOps applied to COTS systems. • DevOps […]

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Hybrid Threat Protection with Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM Powered by AWS

IT security teams need to have a real-time understanding of what’s happening with their infrastructure and applications. They need to be able to find and correlate data in this continuous flood of information to identify unexpected behaviors or patterns that can lead to a security breach. To simplify and automate this process, many solutions have […]

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Paging Doctor Cloud! Amazon HealthLake Is Now Generally Available

At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon HealthLake, a fully managed, HIPAA-eligible service that allows healthcare and life sciences customers to aggregate their health information from different silos and formats into a structured, centralized AWS data lake, and extract insights from that data with analytics and machine learning (ML). Today, I’m very happy to announce […]

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