Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Alluxio Launches Enhanced Hybrid Cloud Solution based on Intel Optane Persistent Memory

Intel Optane persistent memory with Alluxio sees 2.1x performance boost over disaggregated S3 object storage SAN MATEO, CA – April 28, 2020 – Alluxio, the developer of open source cloud data orchestration software, today announced a go-to-market solution in collaboration with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer with 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent […]

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Accurics Makes Infrastructure as Code More Secure

Fresh off raising $5 million in funding, Accurics today launched a platform that analyzes the code employed to manage infrastructure as code for vulnerabilities as well as indicators of drift to create a threat model for cloud application workloads and then, if necessary, automatically roll back cloud settings to their last known approved state. Accurics CEO […]

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Now Open – AWS Europe (Milan) Region

Today, I am very happy to announce that, as we anticipated some time ago, a new AWS Region is available in Italy! The Europe (Milan) Region is our sixth Region in Europe, and is composed of 3 availability zones (AZs) that you can use to reliably spread your applications across multiple data centers, for example […]

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New – Serverless Streaming ETL with AWS Glue

When you have applications in production, you want to understand what is happening, and how the applications are being used. To analyze data, a first approach is a batch processing model: a set of data is collected over a period of time, then run through analytics tools. To be able to react quickly, you can […]

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Red Hat Extends Scope of Ansible Tools

Red Hat today announced it has extended the analytics capabilities it makes available for instances of the Ansible IT automation platform and has made the Ansible Automation Services Catalog now generally available. In addition, Red Hat has increased the number of certified playbooks it makes available from both the company and third-party partners within the […]

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Report Finds Much Room for CD Improvement

A report published by Harness, a provider of continuous delivery (CD) platform accessed via the cloud, finds organizations are spending on average $109,0000 per year just to deploy applications. Based on a survey of more than 100 organizations, the report finds organizations are struggling with deployment frequency, lead time and meantime to recover after a […]

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Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities

OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]

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A Prescription to End the Myopia of Software Metrics

“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!,” Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business Review. As someone who has purchased many drills in my life—and drilled my share of holes—this quote has always struck me as a bit, well, myopic. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not arguing with the sentiment behind the quote—that organizations […]

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AIOps 2020: IT Talent Is the Game-Changer

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is a fairly new catch-all term for any multi-layered development initiative involving big data analytics, machine learning and/or AI to automate and solve business and IT problems. Definitions vary, but most support the notion that AIOps improve IT performance, infrastructure, cloud and operations. This is a dramatic shift in […]

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GigaSpaces Embraces Kubernetes Alternative for DataOps

GigaSpaces has added a DataOps framework to its in-memory computing platform that provides an alternative to Kubernetes by employing Nomad software from HashiCorp as a scheduler. Yoav Einav, vice president of product for GigaSpaces, said many enterprise IT organizations aren’t in a position to adopt Kubernetes, yet they still need a means to embrace best […]

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