Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Why Enterprise Survival Depends on a Context Driven Approach to Data

Enterprises are sitting on an enormous amount of data that could be fueling their automation journey. Much of the information needed to run a business is existing data. However, much of an organization’s data is inaccessible and unsearchable. This so-called “dark data” is hidden away in paper forms, spreadsheets, emails and literally billions of PDF […]

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SauceCon 2020 Speaker Profile: Hugh McCamphill

This is the fourth in a series of articles highlighting speakers at SauceCon 2020. SauceCon brings together the global community of Sauce Labs users and continuous testing experts to learn from each other and level up their automated testing and continuous delivery skills. This year’s event will be held April 27-29 in Austin, Texas, and […]

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The Demise of the 4 Horsemen

The post The Demise of the 4 Horsemen appeared first on DevOps.com. Source: DevOps.com

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Savings Plan Update: Save Up to 17% On Your Lambda Workloads

Late last year I wrote about Savings Plans, and showed you how you could use them to save money when you make a one or three year commitment to use a specified amount (measured in dollars per hour) of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or AWS Fargate. Savings Plans give you the flexibility to change […]

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Red Hat Updates OpenStack Platform

Red Hat today made available an update to its distribution of OpenStack that enables it to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system. Sean Cohen, senior manager for product management at Red Hat, said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 combines three releases of OpenStack, known as “Rocky,” “Stein” and “Train” into a […]

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DevSecOps: A Renewed Commitment to Secure Delivery, Part 2

If done right, DevSecOps eliminates the cultural roadblocks that often prevent organizations from getting IT security proactively involved with development and operations. Barriers are the last thing any organization should contend with when comprehensive security is an absolute priority at a time when data breaches, intellectual property theft and other cybercrimes can almost immediately cripple […]

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Does the Empire Strike Back When We Learn What Happens to the $10 Billion JEDI Contract?

Microsoft scored a huge victory by sweeping in and taking the $10 billion dollar, multi-year JEDI contract for military IT services from AWS (owned and operated by amazon.com, its parent company). The backstory on this is that James “Mad Dog” Mattis, then Secretary of Defense, met with Jeff Bezos who tweeted about it on August […]

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Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond

In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […]

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IBM Power Systems Certified for SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud as a provider for large SAP HANA systems

ARMONK, N.Y., February 19, 2020 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IBM Power Systems has been certified for the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud as a critical infrastructure platform provider for large SAP HANA systems, aiming to simplify the IT infrastructure for the managed, private cloud environment. The service will run on IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems E980 […]

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Cohesity, HPE, Cisco Create ROBO Platform

Cohesity, in tandem with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cisco Systems, today announced an integrated server and storage platform for remote office/branch offices (ROBOs) designed to be installed in a turnkey fashion. Rather than requiring IT staff to be present in a ROBO, the platforms are designed to be installed by a local office manager and […]

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