Why Red Hat makes more money on Docker than Docker does
It’s a sign of Docker’s maturity in the market that people are now starting to seriously question their monetization strategy. Matt Asay breaks down why Red Hat is able to succeed at monetizing the...
View ArticleLooking Forward to 2017: Gestalt Server News 17.1
Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories 2017 Predictions A New Year means it’s...
View ArticleHow Expensive is the Public Cloud?
The idea of the public cloud seems simple enough. It provides resources on demand, you pay for what you use, and don’t have to worry about maintaining your private infrastructure. But Tim Crawford...
View ArticleZFS – Replication Backups
Do you need a script to let you replicate ZFS snapshots for use as backups? Of course you do. Luckily Larry Smith Jr. is on the job. Take a look at what he’s put together. Looks like a good...
View ArticleArchive Lessons from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
At Gestalt IT, we’ve already covered that the IT infrastructure used by the Empire in Rogue One would be a personal hellscape. But it seems like it stood out to a lot of people. W. Curtis Preston took...
View ArticleIoT Needs Enterprise Visualizations
The Internet of Things has been around, at least conceptually, for some time now. In practice, we’re seeing the first real surge of affordable devices hitting the market in the last year or two. This...
View ArticleAMD Ryzen: Third Architecture is the Charm
As a jaded AMD fanboy, I’m not only getting on the hype train for their Ryzen CPUs, I’m the conductor taking tickets from everyone else. I will shovel hype coal into the hype train, and send it...
View ArticleHow Stack Overflow plans to survive the next DNS attack
Stack Overflow is usually the place I go when I think I might want to learn to code. I quickly see that my time would be better spent watching cat videos, and I move on with my life. Personal laziness...
View ArticleAMD: The Last Decade
© rich for Gestalt IT, 2017. | AMD: The Last Decade Read more posts categorized as Exclusive, Featured You might also be interested in...The B-side of storage containerizationA Different Kind of...
View ArticleGetting started with TMUX
I hope Jon Langemak doesn’t feel too bad. I’ve never tried out TMUX before either. He’s been running it through its paces and likes what he sees. After reading his walkthrough, I’ll definitely give it...
View ArticleQuorum’s Latest Release, AMD’s Lost Decade, and HCI in Gestalt Server News 17.2
Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories DR Troopers: Quorum onQ 4.0 Quorum comes...
View ArticleThe Devil’s in the DRAM with Diablo Technologies
As a student, I used a number of PCs that weren’t exactly state of the art. In 2007, I was using a glacially clocked Pentium 3 based machine with 128 tiny MB of memory. As such, I didn’t so much become...
View ArticleThe Hyperconverged Tipping Point with Scale Computing
Have all your wildest dreams come true? Have you found the meaning of life? Has a wave of serenity that puts you in tune with the eternal rhythm of the universe overwhelmed you, making all previous...
View ArticleWhat is it like to be a SysAdmin in the new DevOps world? Part1
Matthew Leib starts a four part series, looking into what it means to be a SysAdmin in the cloud native world of DevOps. No longer can each individual component of data center infrastructure be siloed...
View ArticleData Scientist – The Next Highly Demanded IT job? Or Not?
With Big Data being all the rage in IT, it’s no wonder there are a lot of call for data scientists within organizations. The problem is, what exactly does this entail? It’s an emergent enough space...
View ArticleA.I. Gets to Work with Next IT
I remember the first time I tried Google’s 411 service, it kind of seemed like a miracle. Before I had a constantly connected computer on me at all times, free 411 service seemed supremely powerful....
View ArticleNvidia Makes Moves in the Data Center
Nvidia just released their Q4 earnings. The company definitely finished fiscal 2016 on a strong note. Overall the company saw hefty overall revenue growth on the year, up 55% to $2.17 billion. The vast...
View ArticleA Hyperconverged Home Lab
I’m never going to have a home lab to test out the latest and greatest enterprise gear. If I had ever seriously considered it, it was put to bed when I saw Joshua Stenhouse’s setup. To say it’s...
View ArticleScale Computing, Nvidia in the Data Center, and a Hyperconverged Home Lab in...
Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in servers. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured Stories The Hyperconverged Tipping Point with...
View ArticleThe Next Step in Hyperconvergence with Maxta
Hyperconverged infrastructure has changed the way a lot of organizations view virtualization. It brings a certain kind of simplicity to how it can be managed, provisioned, and deployed. Yet, this often...
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