ACI, or Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure is a new approach to managing and architecting our infrastructure. Integrated infrastructures, such as FlexPod have helped organizations streamline their approaches to designing, deploying, and running data centers. Software such as UCS Director has served as a unifying platform for managing the underlying components of the infrastructure, compute, network …
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In 2011, when we were all just getting started with cloud (mostly trying to figure out exactly what it was), Citrix bought a company called Cloud.com. Cloud.com set out to develop on open source software to, well, power clouds, whether the be public or private. In 2010, when they emerged from stealth mode, they began …
Chances are you’ve heard something about Docker in recent months. Straight from the whale’s mouth, Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker …
Whether we embrace it or not, IT Security organizations have become key players in our organizations over the years. Sometimes they get a bad rap, they have to be come the enforces for various policies and compliance requirements our businesses must adhere to. Audits can be met with enthusiasm or dread, but they aren’t going any place soon. I think much …
When I was a VMware administrator, one of the most crucial decisions we made when we deployed a new virtual machine was which datastore it resided on. We tried to stick to a naming convention that told us if we were using FC disks or SATA disks (we had some not so nice names for …
Many of us remember when virtualization was in its infancy, when we didn’t have features like high availability to protect against hardware failures, and live migration to move a virtual server off of the host it resided on for maintenance. Back then, the benefits were all about reduced power and cooling requirements, and using less …