Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

env0 Extends Workflow Platform for Provisioning Infrastructure

env0 today announced it has added support for additional infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools and the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to its workflow automation and management platform. Fresh from raising an additional $35 million in funding, env0 CEO Ohad Maislish said while Terraform remains the most widely used IaC tool, there are now more organizations using alternatives […]

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Cloud Management Issues Are Coming to a Head

A survey of 1,300 technology and data executives found that more than a decade after the initial rise of cloud computing, organizations are still struggling to manage these environments. Conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of NetApp, the survey found 98% of respondents reported their business has been impacted by everything from the increasing complexity […]

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The Power of Observability: Performance and Reliability

Observability has become an essential aspect of modern IT, and its importance is only expected to increase in the years to come. The ability to monitor and understand the behavior of systems in real-time provides organizations with a wealth of information that can help them improve the performance, reliability, and overall health of their networks […]

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Right Tool for the Job: Alerting Edition

In high-tech, we have a terrible predilection for finding a good tool and abusing it until we hate it. I’ve written several “Use the right tool for the job” articles and posts over the years, most notably an examination of trying to make one programming language (or another) into an all-purpose solution. We’re thankfully past […]

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Enfabrica Makes Cloud Networking Performance Advances

Enfabrica Corp. today emerged from stealth at the MemCon conference to launch a class of processors for networking in cloud computing environments that are optimized for moving data between CPUs, graphical processor units (GPUs), accelerators and memory. Enfabrica CEO Rochan Sankar said the Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) enables scalable, streaming, multi-terabit-per-second movement of data in […]

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Salesforce Spring 2023 Release: Out With the Old, A Lot of the New

Salesforce is the connector and enabler of so many critical business functions. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t come with its headaches. The environment is so complex that it really takes a conscious, focused effort to properly leverage all that Salesforce has to offer, as well as stay up-to-speed on everything that’s new and evolving. […]

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Announcing General Availability of Step-by-Step Guides for Amazon Connect Agent Workspace

At AWS re:Invent 2022 we announced the availability of step-by-step guides for Amazon Connect agent workspace in preview. My colleagues who collaborated to write the announcement post wrote about some of the challenges that contact centers face with training new agents to get up to speed with their agent desktop. They also mentioned that until […]

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How French Broadcaster TF1 Used AWS Cloud Technology and Expertise to Bring the FIFA World Cup to Millions

Three years before millions of viewers saw, arguably, one of the most thrilling World Cup Finals ever broadcast, TF1, the leading private TV channel in France, started a project to redefine the foundations of its broadcasting platform, including adopting a new cloud-based architecture. They, and all other broadcasters, have been observing diminishing audiences for traditional […]

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AWS Application Migration Service Major Updates: Import and Export Feature, Source Server Migration Metrics Dashboard, and Additional Post-Launch Actions

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) can simplify and expedite your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. In the post, How to Use the New AWS Application Migration Server for Lift-and-Shift Migrations, Channy introduced us to Application Migration Service and how […]

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Amazon Chime SDK Call Analytics: Real-Time Voice Tone Analysis and Speaker Search

Today, I am pleased to announce the availability of Amazon Chime SDK call analytics, a new set of capabilities that helps make it easier and cost effective to record and generate insights on real-time audio calls: transcription, voice tone analysis, and speaker search. We’ve also improved the Amazon Chime SDK section of the AWS Management […]

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