Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services

I first wrote about EC2 Reserved Instances a decade ago! Since I wrote that post, our customers have saved billions of dollars by using Reserved Instances to commit to usage of a specific instance type and operating system within an AWS region. Over the years we have enhanced the Reserved Instance model to make it […]

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Meet the newest AWS Heroes, including the first Data Heroes!

The AWS Heroes program recognizes community leaders from around the world who have extensive AWS knowledge and a passion for sharing their expertise with others. As trends in the technical community shift, the program evolves to better recognize the most influential community leaders across a variety of technical disciplines. Introducing AWS Data Heroes Today we are introducing […]

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McAfee MVISION Cloud Helps Customers “Shift Left” With Security to Increase Compliance and Reduce Risk on Microsoft Azure

McAfee Integrates Security into the DevOps Process with McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Azure November 06, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MICROSOFT IGNITE CONFERENCE – McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced updates to McAfee MVISION Cloud for Microsoft Azure that will help customers “Shift Left” with security to preemptively help to address compliance and […]

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McAfee MVISION Cloud Is Now a Certified Data Loss Prevention Provider for Microsoft Teams

November 06, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time ORLANDO, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MICROSOFT IGNITE CONFERENCE – McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced its cloud access security broker (CASB) technology is now Certified for Microsoft Teams. McAfee MVISION Cloud is now Certified for Microsoft Teams to serve the needs of partners and customers with a unified, cloud-native security platform that […]

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Applause Re-Invents AI Testing With New Solution That Detects Bias and Sources Training Data at Scale to Make Apps More Human

  Boston–November 6, 2019 – Applause, the worldwide leader in digital quality and crowdsourced testing, today announced its new solution for AI training and testing. The scalable solution trains algorithms to learn quickly and tests the output to ensure those algorithms are processing and responding appropriately. The solution leverages Applause’s global community of vetted testers […]

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Becoming a Data Company: A Tale of Two Trends

Data is back, baby! Well, that seems like an odd statement. It never quite left. Nevertheless, Google’s recent acquisition of Looker and Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau seems to highlight this mindset in magnified ways. With eyes set on new leaps in data science and artificial intelligence, it’s easy to understand how our views on data […]

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Using Open Source for Better DevOps Outcomes

Many insurers have jumped on the DevOps bandwagon in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their systems and systems implementations. Very few insurers, however, spend much time thinking about the open source software community as a way to improve their DevOps approach–and the skills of their developers–and in that regard they’re missing a […]

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Now Available: New C5d Instance Sizes and Bare Metal Instances

Amazon EC2 C5 instances are very popular for running compute-heavy workloads like batch processing, distributed analytics, high-performance computing, machine/deep learning inference, ad serving, highly scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. In 2018, we added blazing fast local NVMe storage, and named these new instances C5d. They are a great fit for applications that need access […]

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Founded by Ex-Uber Engineers, Chronosphere Emerges to Push Observability and Cloud Native Monitoring to New Levels With $11 Million in Funding

Chronosphere is the Only Monitoring Platform in the Market That Lets Customers Leverage Tens of Billions of Time Series for Higher Level Insights NEW YORK, Nov. 05, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Chronosphere formally launched and unveiled its first product – Chronosphere – a platform for monitoring today’s complex technology stacks at large scale. Chronosphere enables customers […]

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Logz.io Simplifies Production Troubleshooting with Release of Log Patterns

Real-Time Kibana-Native Log Clustering Rounds Out Company’s AIOps Feature Set Boston and Tel Aviv, November 5, 2019 — Logz.io, an open source observability platform for modern DevOps teams, today announced the release of Log Patterns, the newest AI capability in the company’s AIOps portfolio. Created to streamline investigation and troubleshooting so engineers can resolve issues […]

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