When we talk about OpenStack, there is a lot of focus on the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodology it uses to achieve its rapid release schedule of two releases a year. Think about that for a moment, a network of thousands of developers working together to release an operating system that runs clouds. Clouds that …
OpenStack was created to provide a complete, open source cloud operating system. In addition to being community driven, OpenStack aims to be simple. By providing an easy to use dashboard and user interface (in addition to command line tools and RESTful APIs), OpenStack empowers the end users to use the cloud resources as they see …
As I’m sure many of you know, I work for NetApp as a Systems Engineer. Before I worked for NetApp, I was a NetApp customer, but not in the way you may be thinking. You see, I wasn’t a storage engineer, I was a virtualization engineer. About half of my environment had a NetApp storage …
November is usually the month I pick to do something sort of insane. Like write a novel, or at least 50,000 words. While I don’t ALWAYS succeed, I try to do it every year. I started with NaNoWriMo in 2010 (I had tried a few times before then, but never got very far), and have …
When I was still on the customer side, in 2011, I had the pleasure of working with FlexPod for the first time. It wasn’t in a cool rack that I could pose in front of, it was a NetApp FAS2040, Nexus 5ks, and Cisco UCS Servers and their Fabric Interconnects (which were named Batman and …
I’ve always felt like storage was one of the fundamental building blocks of virtualization. The VMware environment I worked with sucked up the most storage out of any other group or application, even with storage efficiencies like deduplication in place. When there was something wrong with the environment’s storage, it quickly impacted everything running on …