Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

American Express Uses DevOps for Better Breach Response

It was 6 a.m. Saturday when the phone rang and awoke the American Express CIO. When the phone rings at 6 a.m., it is never good news. Never. This instance was no different: In this case, a third-party supplier just suffered a breach, and that breach would impact American Express cardholders. Immediately following that call, […]

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Amazon S3 Block Public Access – Another Layer of Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets

Newly created Amazon S3 buckets and objects are (and always have been) private and protected by default, with the option to use Access Control Lists (ACLs) and bucket policies to grant access to other AWS accounts or to public (anonymous) requests. The ACLs and policies give you lots of flexibility. You can grant permissions to […]

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New – Train Custom Document Classifiers with Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend gives you the power to process natural-language text at scale (read my introductory post, Amazon Comprehend – Continuously Trained Natural Language Processing, to learn more). After launching late 2017 with support for English and Spanish, we have added customer-driven features including Asynchronous Batch Operations, Syntax Analysis, support for additional languages (French, German, Italian, […]

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Sumo Logic Strengthens Executive Team with Appointments of First-Ever Chief Financial, Marketing, Development and Communications Officers and General Counsel

Leader in Continuous Intelligence and Machine Data Analytics Deepens Leadership Bench Across Key Functions to Execute Multi-Year Growth Strategy REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Nov. 15, 2018 – Sumo Logic, the leading cloud-native, machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence, today announced the expansion of its executive bench with strategic hires and appointments across finance, marketing, communications, […]

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SentryOne Expands Software Development Engineering Team Into EMEA

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – November 15, 2018 – SentryOne has onboarded a new Software Development Engineering team out of its Dublin City Centre, Ireland, office to accommodate their rapidly growing EMEA footprint. Since opening in May 2018, the Irish subsidiary has quickly become entrenched in the EMEA Microsoft Data Platform community. “Dublin was an obvious choice for the location […]

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Nokia Releases Upgraded CloudBand Infrastructure Software to Secure 5G Cloud Deployments, Enhance Service Delivery and Reduce Costs for Customers

New converged CloudBand Infrastructure Software delivers secure, unified virtual infrastructure management software to secure 5G cloud deployments The new release includes OpenStack directly from the open source community in order to move new capabilities to customers faster and to support the smaller footprint required for edge deployments Enables management of virtual machines (VM) and containers […]

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Digital Defense Announces Frontline Active Threat Sweep™

Fast, Easy to Deploy, Cost-Effective Alternative to Threat Hunting Platforms San Antonio, TX – November 15, 2018 – Digital Defense, Inc., a leading security technology and services provider, today announced the availability of their next generation Threat Detection technology, Frontline Active Threat Sweep™ (Frontline ATS™), an optional addition to Frontline.Cloud. Frontline ATS – underpinned by […]

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Collaboration is up but automation may not be delivering on its promise as people remain a key software QA investment

DevOps is changing the role of testing yet 66% struggle with merely deciding what to test   Hackensack, NJ –   NOVEMBER 15, 2018 – New data from Panaya suggests the role and scope of quality assurance is evolving, and today’s digital transformation efforts may be seeing bigger gains from human capital than automating processes. This […]

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New – EC2 Auto Scaling Groups With Multiple Instance Types & Purchase Options

Earlier this year I told you about EC2 Fleet, an AWS building block that makes it easy for you to create fleets that are built from a combination of EC2 On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot Instances that span multiple EC2 instance types. In that post I showed you how to create a fleet and walked through […]

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Trifacta Extends Data Preparation to DataOps with New Functionality for Data Engineers

New features including RapidTarget and Automator allow data engineers to more efficiently operationalize data preparation workflows in production SAN FRANCISCO, 14th of November 2018 — Trifacta, the global leader in data preparation, today announced a new set of capabilities designed to enable data engineers within data operations (DataOps) practices to more efficiently develop, test, schedule […]

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