Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud

One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]

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Tips For Managing Development Teams Remotely During Coronavirus

Thanks to the global coronavirus pandemic, around a third of the world’s population is on lockdown in their homes, which means a huge number of businesses are currently trying to navigate remote working solutions. Trying to collaborate on software development is difficult at the best of times when your team is all in the same […]

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Tips on Rightsizing to Reduce AWS Costs Now

In this business climate, everyone is looking to reduce costs. CFOs are reevaluating their software and infrastructure spend, and naturally, companies are looking for ways to optimize their AWS costs. In fact, we are now leveraging a major reason cloud is so compelling in the first place: you have more flexibility to control costs based […]

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ClickShare Vulnerabilities May Have Been Patched, But They Mask a Much Bigger Problem

I think we can all recall a time in recent memory where, in a meeting or at a conference, someone has had issues with presentation technology. It happens so often that there is almost an expectation of a clunky experience, at least initially. It stands as no surprise, then, that ClickShare’s seamless app was immediately […]

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VMware Makes vRealize Automation Framework Available via the Cloud

VMware this week announced it has made a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its vRealize automation platform generally available. Taruna Gandhi, senior director for product and technical marketing at VMware, said VMware vRealize Operation Cloud will make IT automation more accessible to a broader swath of organizations that might not be able to implement IT automation […]

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Twilio Provides 90-Day Free Developer Access to Video Service

Twilio this week announced it will make its video services available for free for three months to developers who are building applications to address COVID-19 pandemic uses cases in the health care, education and nonprofit sectors if they sign up to use the platform before June 30. Jesper Joergensen, general manager for voice and video […]

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Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?

We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]

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The Key to Embracing DevOps: A Real-Time Roadmap

While the term “DevOps” has become somewhat of an industry buzzword, it represents an important shift in the way teams think about planning, building and deploying software. Drawing its inspiration from the Agile movement, DevOps extends many of Agile’s core principles beyond development to how teams deploy, monitor and inform their next round of product […]

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Build Better CX Across the Entire User Journey with AIOps

Ready or not, digital experiences are now the gateway to customers and the standard-bearer of a company’s brand. Yet, as apps become more distributed, more intelligent and more real-time, they continue to run on infrastructure that resides within on-prem data centers as well as multiple public clouds. This complexity is underscored by gaps across IT […]

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New Relic Extends Reach and Scope of AI Capabilities

New Relic this week announced it has extended the capabilities within its New Relic AI module to include support for additional data sources and provide access to more advanced analytics. Integrations with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch are now provided along with support for a number of incident management platforms, including ServiceNow, OpsGenie and […]

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