Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Cockroach Labs Releases CockroachDB 20.1 With New Features For Simpler, Faster Cloud Application Development

Newest version of leading distributed SQL database helps developers more quickly, efficiently, and securely build elastically scalable and ultra-resilient applications in the cloud NEW YORK, May 12, 2020 — Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, today announced the release of CockroachDB 20.1, the newest version of the cloud-native, distributed SQL database. With new features designed […]

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New – EC2 M6g Instances, powered by AWS Graviton2

Starting today, you can use our first 6th generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) General Purpose instance: the M6g. The “g” stands for “Graviton2“, our next generation Arm-based chip designed by AWS (and Annapurna Labs, an Amazon company), utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores. These processors support 256-bit, always-on, DRAM encryption. They also include dual […]

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Reinventing Enterprise Search – Amazon Kendra is Now Generally Available

At the end of 2019, we launched a preview version of Amazon Kendra, a highly accurate and easy to use enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Today, I’m very happy to announce that Amazon Kendra is now generally available. For all its amazing achievements in past decades, Information Technology had yet to solve a […]

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AWS Inter-Region Data Transfer (DTIR) Price Reduction

If you build AWS applications that span two or more AWS regions, this post is for you. We are reducing the cost to transfer data from the South America (São Paulo), Middle East (Bahrain), Africa (Cape Town), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions to other AWS regions as follows, effective May 1, 2020: Region Old Rate […]

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Liquid.com Bolsters Security for Cryptocurrency Exchange with Sumo Logic

Company Adopts Sumo Logic’s Cloud SIEM to Secure More than One Billion Platform Transactions Per Day and Support Globally Distributed Team and Multi-cloud Technology Stack REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sumo Logic, the leader in continuous intelligence, today announced that global cryptocurrency platform, Liquid.com (Liquid), has chosen Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM to provide real-time security intelligence and […]

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MemSQL Fuels Growth with $50M Hercules Capital Partnership

Non-Dilutive Financing Provides Tech Company with Added Fuel to Accelerate Growth SAN FRANCISCO – May 11, 2020 – MemSQL, the No-Limits Database for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has signed a debt facility that provides up to $50 million of new capital. Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC), the largest non-bank venture debt provider with more than $2.4 […]

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NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy

Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA. The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Kevin Deierling, senior vice […]

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Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences

The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue.  […]

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DevOps Chats: Shadow Code Security with PerimeterX

When the cloud first caught on, there was a problem with Shadow IT—developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code—code being added to apps that did not go through the entire team process—has arisen. In this DevOps […]

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EC2 Price Reduction – For EC2 Instance Saving Plans and Standard Reserved Instances

It is my great pleasure to tell you about a price reduction for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) customers who plan to use, Standard Reserved Instances or EC2 Instance Saving Plans. The price changes are already in effect, and so anyone buying news RIs or a new EC2 Instance Saving Plan will be able to […]

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