Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

How to Achieve Cloud Operational Excellence

Cloud operational excellence means delivering the right mix of cloud-based services at the optimal cost and quality to support your organization’s mission and strategy. You might be thinking, “Why go to the trouble? Isn’t ‘almost good enough’ sufficient?” It turns out that it matters—a lot. The difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10% […]

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Career Alternatives

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That Other Continuous: Data Protection

Looking around at things to add to our current project’s toolchain (that is one of the reasons we do these side projects; to check out all sorts of new ideas/tools/etc), and researching the company where a former coworker is the CMO, I was drawn into the resurgent world of continuous data protection (CDP). It is […]

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CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative

The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that can be […]

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Federal IT Must Embrace Automation

In the private sector, an automation explosion is underway. One major retailer, for example, is using a new automated system to increase speed and accuracy in how freight is handled at its regional distribution centers. Another retail giant is relying on new automated processes to replenish store shelves more efficiently, reduce excess inventory and free […]

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Majority of Organizations Now Adopt Multi-Cloud

As IT’s digital footprint grows, its cloud footprint is rising both in size and complexity. As a result, most organizations have matured into multi-cloud operators. A multi-cloud approach empowers different divisions with the autonomy to select the right computing environment for their needs. It also enables a lift-and-shift ability to port workloads across cloud service […]

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How to Achieve AWS Competency Accreditation

For businesses in the early stage of their ventures, proving that they have the expertise and technical know-how when it comes to cloud technology can be difficult. An acceleration toward digitization due to COVID-19 and an increasingly crowded cloud market, dominated by the big players, means that simply shouting about your skills in cloud engineering […]

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Popular iOS Apps Request Excessive User Data Permissions

Most apps require some sort of user data to function properly. Google Maps needs location data to offer routing services. Twitter needs photo library access to upload a photo, and so on. Many users are quick to allow access to personal information without hesitation. However, in recent years, it’s become apparent that many apps are […]

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At the Movies

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GitHub Updates CLI to Make Creating Extensions Easier

GitHub this week made available an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that enables DevOps teams to add extensions to workflows. Billy Griffin, director of engineering for GitHub, said the company’s initial focus was providing DevOps teams with a set of workflows that could be invoked easily via a CLI. Now GitHub is encouraging developers […]

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