Docker is rapidly changing and evolving as it continues to gain traction and popularity in the world of containerized applications. One of the biggest challenges that new technologies face is viability in the enterprise arena. While the use of containers does have intrinsic value to organizations, especially those leveraging a DevOps model, its feature set …
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A key component of our policy driven data center of the future is configuration management. With terms like cloud, orchestration, and DevOps being thrown around all over the place, how do we handle this? How do we make sure that we’re doing things in a consistent way? There are as many options as there are …
If you’re a NetApp customer, and you’re running a VMware environment, you must be using the NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere. Right? I sure hope so. If you aren’t you should be, and you should be installing it after you finish reading this post. It is free after all. In addition to VSC …
As I mentioned in my article about Open Source Software Defined Networking, many projects are trying to go beyond SDN, and also provide NFV. NFV is Network Function Virtualization, and is actually a separate concept from SDN. While SDN focuses on mostly layer 2 and layer 3 functionality, NFV is focused on layers 4 through …
Software Defined Everything. Anything you’ve could possibly touch in your data center is getting to the point where it has some sort of software defined counterpart. Virtualization set the stage for our future data centers, by software defining hardware, and other technologies are catching up. One area I think is particularly interesting is the open …
Ever wished you didn’t actually have to have your data reside in Amazon, or maybe had a business case that just wouldn’t let it happen? Or maybe, you do want some of your data there, because it is part of your strategy for production, development, or backup and recovery. Perhaps you wish you could manage …