In our previous blog on why bare metal cannot, yet, be operated as a cloud, we outlined the problem in our industry about how bare metal management is critical in industries like retail, 5G and Telco, and research, as well as for use-cases such as private cloud elasticity and high-performance computing (HPC). Yet, today bare […]
· December 16, 2020 · 7 min read
Kubernetes wasn’t designed as a change management tool, and you perhaps have never thought about it as being one. Yet in several ways, Kubernetes helps to smooth over the biggest pain-points that IT organizations face when managing change. IT Change Management Challenges To understand how Kubernetes can improve change management, you must first understand the
· August 5, 2020 · 5 min read
There are only so many hours in a day. That’s a fact. And, due to that fact, businesses are forced to make decisions as to how their employees spend their time. This is no different in the realm of software development. These organizations must allocate resources to deal with monitoring and managing application deployments and
· July 31, 2020 · 5 min read
Kubernetes is a powerful infrastructure platform for developers. Its self-service nature allows developers to take control of releasing software to production without the direct involvement of Ops teams. This helps development teams increase their velocity, enabling them to release more often and more quickly, with more control over the infrastructure than ever to optimize cost,
· July 31, 2020 · 5 min read
Today’s private clouds must accommodate a range of new needs and use cases that the private clouds of the past rarely contended with. At the same time, new technologies (or old technologies that have matured) have created novel opportunities for building out hybrid clouds. For both of these reasons, redefining private cloud architectures is one
· July 10, 2020 · 5 min read
We’re living in a cloud-native world. You can barely read a tech blog or go to a conference without hearing about all of the benefits of cloud-native technologies or architectures, such as containers, microservices and serverless functions. Yet amidst all of the excitement about going cloud native, it can be easy to overlook the challenges
· January 14, 2020 · 6 min read
We just returned from Gartner IT infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies conference (IOCS) held in Las Vegas Dec 9-12, 2019, which drew more than 3500 attendees and more than 120 exhibitors (+50% vs last year). Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud teams who came to Gartner IOCS are positioning themselves to innovate with new technologies like Kubernetes,
· December 19, 2019 · 7 min readWe just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 held in sunny San Diego Nov 18-21. KubeCon San Diego 2019 drew more than 12,000 attendees, a 50% increase since the last event in Barcelona, just 6 months ago. While at the event, we interacted with more than 1,800 attendees and had more than 1,300 attendees complete
· November 22, 2019 · 6 min read
I’m excited to announce the new Kubernetes Managed Apps offering – an extension of our Managed Kubernetes solution – ushering the next phase of self-service for Kubernetes Platform Operations! Things are getting complicated… As we know, bare-bones Kubernetes by itself is not sufficient to enable a comprehensive cloud-native infrastructure that is enterprise-ready. DevOps teams
· June 24, 2019 · 6 min read
We just returned from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019 which was held in beautiful Barcelona, Spain last week. While at the show, we interacted with more than 1,000 attendees and had almost 500 attendees complete our survey at the booth, to give us an insight into their use of Kubernetes. Here are the five most important
· May 30, 2019 · 6 min read
Today, at KubeCon +Cloud Native conference in Barcelona, European cloud provider OVH, announced the availability of Platform9 Managed Kubernetes to OVH bare-metal customers around the world. While the OVH Managed Kubernetes Service is mainly designed for teams that operate on OVH’s public cloud offering, the European cloud provider has also listened to its clients who
· May 21, 2019 · 2 min read
Modern enterprises that need to ship software are constantly caught in a race for optimization – whether that is speed (time to ship/deploy), ease of use, or, inevitably, cost. What makes this a never-ending cycle is that these goals are often at odds with each other. The choices that organizations make usually inform what they’re
· April 23, 2019 · 12 min read