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The Power of Platform9: Managed Kubernetes
Joep Piscaer of Virtual Lifestyle comments: I talked about Platform9’s ability to enter new SaaS-realms easily: their core business is delivering difficult-to-implement/operate infrastructure software...
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Who Should Consider Cloud?
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Migrating to the Cloud with Sureline Systems” Whether you examine large webscale companies such as Apple or small startups, there’s a consistent theme regarding the...
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What to Migrate To The Cloud
This is post 2 of 2 in the series “Migrating to the Cloud with Sureline Systems” When selecting workloads to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to consider a few architectural decisions and take...
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Docker 1.12 The Game Changer
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: It’s no secret that Docker and containers have been threatening to change the world for a while now. And they already have for some of us. But you know what…...
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Disaggregated Physical Storage Architectures and Hyperconvergence
James Green of Actual Tech Media comments: In the data center, technology advances in distinct steps rather than smoothly along a continuum. One day we don’t have SSDs, and the next, the first SSD is...
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Hacking Photon OS to Do Your Bidding
Tim Carr of timcarr.net comments: Today I’d like to talk (er type) about how to make Photon OS a more easy to use extension of your operating system. I envision photon as a very lightweight way of...
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The inefficient efficiency of Hyperconvergence (and other alternatives)
Enrico Signoretti of Juku.it comments: When you talk with end users the first reason they give for choosing HCI is its simplicity (which also means lower TCO by the way). Generally speaking, HCI...
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AWS and VMware, What is Happening Here?
Eric Shanks of The IT Hollow comments: Yesterday it was announced that VMware and Amazon Web Services are partnering to provide vSphere’s hypervisor and toolsets on the AWS platform. Since this time...
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Demystifying Docker overlay networking
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: Docker overlay networking is insanely simple to configure. I mean insanely simple! But lurking beneath the simplicity of the setup are a bunch of moving...
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VMware Photon Platform, Notes from the Field – Entry One
David Lloyd of Virtual Outlands comments: Photon Controller is a replacement to vCenter focused on the operational requirements of the container workloads, not virtual machines. Why you may ask? An...
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Docker Launches Kubernetes Killer
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: So Docker, Inc. just announced native clustering and orchestration. TLDR; I reckon it’s the biggest thing to happen to Docker since Docker, and I expect it...
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A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro
These days, it’s hard to be impressed by storage capacity. Every year Seagate or Western Digital rolls out a new slate of drive, each with more bits crammed onto more precisely dense platters. The...
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On Automation and Autonomy
Justin Warren asks a pertinent question: Is your IT automated or autonomous? He starts off this discussion by breaking down the roots of the words in Greek to suss out the subtly in their meaning. In...
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On Schopenhauer and HPE
My favorite philosopher is Arthur Schopenhauer. Not because of any great insights he has into the human condition, but because all of his philosophy is so obviously personal. He espoused what I can...
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A revisionist history of configuration management
Revisionist history has a rocky perception in the public imagination. But all it (should) refer to is a reexamination of the historical record in light of new or neglected historical information....
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Cloudistics, Pica8 Partner On New Cloud-Managed Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Sometimes when looking at new enterprise IT products, it’s important to remember how we derive meaning from words. If we look back to the work of Ferdinand de Saussure, we of course know that the...
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Gestalt Server News
What’s happening this week in Server News A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro These days, it’s hard to be impressed by storage capacity. Every year Seagate or Western Digital rolls out a...
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Tips to improve selling your ideas
An idea is only a good one if it’s acted upon. That’s why my idea to invest in Google circa 2004, my idea to learn Mandarin, and my idea to get regular car maintenance were all bad ones, I never...
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To Terraform Or Not To Terraform: Configuration Management In AWS (And Other...
I have a problem with the Pets vs Cattle analogy. The Pets portion I think hold up pretty well, representing a personal investment in your physical server, something that you care for and name....
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Docker is the New Twitter
Usually I’m an early adopter. Or at least I want to be an early adopter. If you have an emerging product category with a flawed product, I really really want to spend way too much money on what you’re...
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