Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade

Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several subsequent blog posts. During re:Invent 2019, I learned that […]

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Humio accelerates its momentum with extended collaboration with IBM

Humio and IBM deliver streaming observability at scale to more customers around the globe Humio is pleased to announce that we signed an agreement with IBM to make the Humio log management platform available as part of the IBM Multicloud Management Pak.Humio, the only log management platform enabling complete observability for all streaming logs in […]

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5 Ways to Detect Application Security Vulnerabilities Sooner to Reduce Costs and Risk

Security testing has always been an important step in the application development process. Yet, traditional measures often occur too late in the process to effectively find and fix vulnerabilities before causing costly production delays, or worse, putting organizations at risk for potential security breaches. To minimize security-related costs and risks, testing needs to occur sooner […]

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Cloud-Native Security and Performance: Two Sides of the Same Coin

You’re running Kubernetes in a production environment, and you need to apply a patch — perhaps to a commercial application, an open source component or even a container image. How long should it take to implement that patch in production? Thirty days? One day? One hour? Remember, cloud-native environments are supposed to respond to change […]

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Grafana Labs Update Aims to Simplify Observability

Grafana Labs today released an update to the open source Grafana project that adds a viewer that simplifies tracking the path of a single request through a distributed system. Version 7.0 also adds a plug-in for Amazon CloudWatch Logs along with support for Apache Arrow, a unified data and plugin framework that promises to make […]

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GigaSpaces InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme Wins the Gold in Stevie 2020 American Business Awards

Stevie winners will be celebrated during virtual awards ceremony on August 5   New York, NY—May 18, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics and data processing platform, announced today that InsightEdge AnalyticsXtreme was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Big Data Solution category in the 18th Annual American Business Awards® […]

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Fortanix Adds Platform to Manage Confidential Computing on Azure

Fortanix today announced that a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing instances of confidential computing on the Microsoft Azure cloud is now generally available. Confidential computing is an emerging approach to encrypting data while it is running in memory. Today encryption is only applied to data at rest. Confidential computing makes it possible to set up […]

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GitLab Survey Sees DevOps Gains as Developers Exercise More Control

A global survey of 3,650 software professionals published by GitLab respondents indicates developers are exercising more direct control over IT environments. More than a third of respondents (35%) said developers define and/or create the infrastructure their applications run on, with 14% actually monitoring and responding to infrastructure events. Additionally, 18% of developers instrument code for […]

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IBM launches Equal Access Toolkit to help developers build accessible websites and applications

Increase the accessibility of your application and website from the start with the open source IBM Equal Access Toolkit. By Si McAleer, Program Director, IBM Accessibility Although nearly 1 in 4 adults in the U.S. face some type of disability, an industry sample has found that in 2020 over 98 percent of home pages had a detectable accessibility error. […]

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How to Secure the Intangible — Cloud Native Security in the New Age

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole. Companies aren’t interested in managing IT; they’re more interested in results. They want to deliver software quickly and focus on their core product or service. This is where the concept of cloud native computing comes in—and why securing it has become critical.  […]

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