Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

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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IBM Research – Confidentiality and Governance of Cloud Services 

Our team has spent months developing, tuning and perfecting a complex deep neural network to classify important financial, medical or government data. The application has been containerized, packaged, and is finally ready to deploy as a public service on the cloud, but one thing stands in the way. How do you get assurance that your […]

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IBM Boosts Security and Productivity with Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud

As more businesses journey to the cloud, they need ways to easily deploy and manage their critical workloads securely across public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises environments. This is particularly crucial when faced with the ongoing demands to support remote workforces. The IBM public cloud has been rebuilt on a foundation of open source innovation, […]

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6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Out Your AI Tools

Enterprise-level companies, with thousands of employees across the globe, can have their AI framework replicated by B2B companies of nearly any size. In fact, even without access to a ton of proprietary data and immense computational power, you can build out effective AI tools. To begin with, you can introduce publicly available datasets from movie […]

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3 Ways DevOps Can Increase the Value of Organizational Data

There’s a reason the term “data mining” came into existence. Enterprises sit on a vast resource of information—millions of digital gems that, if fully extracted, can not only answer many of their toughest questions, but also help them meet their most ambitious organizational goals. DevOps professionals have a unique opportunity to impact this mining process. […]

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Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact

A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]

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Instana Announces Integration with Coralogix Log Analytics Solution

Company Becomes First APM Vendor to Release Direct Integration with ELK-Stack Based Solution Chicago and San Francisco – April 23, 2020 – Instana, the leading provider of real-time application performance management (APM) solutions for cloud-native microservice applications, today announced the availability of one-click integration with Coralogix, the first ELK based Log Analytics solution to be […]

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How SDM’s Holistic Approach Connects Organizations and Streamlines Delivery Processes

Since Jez Humble and David Farley popularized the term in 2010, continuous delivery has revolutionized software delivery practices.  Creating mature continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines has helped enterprises deliver software that performs better, based on a long list of metrics. Failure rates have dropped from 50% to under 15%, and cycle times are measured in […]

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