Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

AWS Week In Review – May 30, 2022

Today, the US observes Memorial Day. South Korea also has a national Memorial Day, celebrated next week on June 6. In both countries, the day is set aside to remember those who sacrificed in service to their country. This time provides an opportunity to recognize and show our appreciation for the armed services and the important […]

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Broadcom’s Software Strategy: Milk the Cash Cow, Exploit ‘Synergies’

The week began with rumors that Broadcom would acquire VMware and ended with the news that the deal is all but done. The VMware board, along with Michael Dell (who still owns about 41% of VMware’s stock), have a 40-day “go-shop” option; however, I don’t believe there will be other suitors. On Tuesday, I published […]

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Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries

The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) of the programming language and virtual machine. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to make it easier […]

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Opportunities and Challenges of Observability

Observability platforms that unify metrics, logs and traces across applications and IT infrastructure are transforming how IT is managed. Most DevOps teams today are able to continuously monitor IT environments using tools that track a set of pre-defined metrics; observability platforms make it possible to aggregate data so that DevOps teams can launch queries that […]

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New – Amazon EC2 M6id and C6id Instances with Up to 7.6 TB Local NVMe Storage

Last year, we launched the Amazon EC2 M6i instances and C6i instances, our sixth-generation offerings that include 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Today we are expanding Amazon EC2 M6id and C6id instances, backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances are powered by the Intel Xeon Scalable […]

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JFrog Aims to Push DevOps to the Edge

At its swampUP event, JFrog launched a JFrog Connect platform for updating, managing, monitoring and securing remote Linux and internet of things (IoT) devices. The JFrog Connect platform is based on a lightweight agent JFrog gained last year with the acquisition of Upswift and that has now been integrated with the JFrog Artifactory repository. DevOps […]

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WhiteSource Rebrands as Mend, Introduces Industry-First Automated Remediation with the Mend Application Security Platform

Company focuses on automation to dramatically reduce the software attack surface and the application security burden for developers Tel Aviv, ISRAEL and Boston, USA – May 25, 2022 – WhiteSource, a leader in application security, today announced the change of its name to Mend. The company is also launching the industry’s first automated remediation for […]

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Broadcom Acquires VMware to Expand Software Portfolio

Broadcom today pulled the trigger on an acquisition of VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock that could dramatically expand its software portfolio. Tom Krause, president of the Broadcom Software Group, told investors that the Broadcom infrastructure software group will become part of VMware once the deal closes. The deal, however, includes a 40-day […]

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Why DevSecOps Should Be Top Priority

DevOps culture and process are integral to maintaining the pace of cloud-native software development for organizations, especially when code deployments might take place many times a day. The ability to instantly create, populate and scale cloud applications and infrastructure, often automated through code, allows enormous agility and incredible speed. But moving this quickly means security […]

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Microsoft Adds Raft of Tools and Azure Cloud Extensions

At its Build 2022 conference this week, Microsoft added a bevy of tools and platform updates as part of its effort to improve the productivity of developers and the DevOps teams that support them. A Microsoft Dev Box offering, for example, provides access to a set of pre-configured environments on the Azure cloud that enables […]

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