Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

GitHub Previews Free CI/CD Migration Tool Due in 2023

At its GitHub Universe event, GitHub today unveiled a bevy of updates to its cloud service, including a forthcoming set of migration tools. The tools will automate migrations from legacy continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions Importer is already being used by a small group of enterprise IT organizations to migrate […]

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CloudBees Demos Orchestration Capabilities of ReleaseIQ Platform

At the online DevOps World 2022 event today, CloudBees demonstrated for the first time the capabilities of the application release management platform it gained last month through the acquisition of ReleaseIQ. Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer and interim chief product officer at CloudBees, told conference attendees that the ReleaseIQ platform will provide application development teams […]

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Cribl Simplifies Telemetry Data Analytics

Cribl today announced general availability of a search capability that makes it simpler to query observability data where it resides without having to first collect and centrally store it. Nick Heudecker, senior director for market strategy for Cribl, said Cribl Search makes it possible to analyze telemetry data at its point of origin or when […]

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A DevOps Reset for a Multi-Cloud World

In the world of DevOps, only two things really matter:  To release applications and updates as quickly as possible To have access to resources (processing, storage, networks) able to run those apps, as cost-effectively as possible.  The measures used to achieve these twin goals should work together seamlessly–otherwise, you’re inefficient. But software development and IT […]

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Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake

It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle implementation. Top-line vendor hint: If you have a page titled “pricing” and there are no prices on it, you’re doin’ it wrong. Let’s […]

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A New AWS Region Opens in Switzerland

I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: eu-central-2. An AWS Region allows you to deploy your most demanding workloads and replicate your applications and data across distinct groups of data centers called Availability Zones. This new Region has three fully redundant […]

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Introducing AWS Resource Explorer – Quickly Find Resources in Your AWS Account

Looking for a specific Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) task, or Amazon CloudWatch log group can take some time, especially if you have many resources and use multiple AWS Regions. Today, we’re making that easier. Using the new AWS Resource Explorer, you can search through the AWS […]

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VMware Extends Equinix Alliance to Drive Managed Hosting Service

VMware today announced it has extended its alliance with Equinix to launch a managed distributed cloud service that runs instances of its cloud computing platform in hosted IT environments. Announced at the VMware Explore 2022 Europe conference, the VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal service takes advantage of more than 240 Equinix data centers in 71 […]

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SRE Survey Reveals Major Technical and Cultural Challenges

Catchpoint, in partnership with Blameless, today published an annual survey of 559 site reliability engineers (SREs) that found 59% of respondents didn’t view tool sprawl to be a major concern. Another 40% said tool sprawl is a moderate (33%) to serious problem (8%). More than half of respondents said they build as much as 30% […]

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Snowflake Makes Case for Building and Deploying Apps on Platform

During a Snowday 2022 event, Snowflake this week moved to make it simpler to build applications on top of its cloud platform for managing data in addition to enhancing the overall security of the platform. The company has made generally available Snowpark, a framework for building Java, Scala, SQL or Python applications. Snowflake also committed […]

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