The high profile implosion of General Electric’s (GE) ambitious digital strategy has caught the attention of many practitioners and IT leaders over the last few months. GE is an iconic business conglomerate with major operations in Aerospace, Transportation and Power, along with a major financing arm. GE has embarked on a massive digital transformation strategy […]
· July 19, 2018 · 9 min read
Last week I had the honor of speaking at GeekWire’s Cloud Tech Summit in Bellevue, WA. The event was a huge success, featuring a full day of talks, interviews, and presentations that painted a clearer picture of this fast-changing world. The programming had a great selection of talks around the issues that are relevant and
· July 3, 2018 · 2 min read
I had the pleasure of speaking at the recent HPE Discover conference, that took place last week in Las Vegas, and saw thousands of attendees – ranging from Fortune 500 companies to Cloud Service Providers to Partners. First off, it was fascinating to see HPE, one of ‘original’ tech companies, turn on a dime to
· June 25, 2018 · 6 min read
In today’s market customers take Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for granted. It used to be that a customer would have to go to a software vendor and either buy bundled software that they would then bring back to their data center to install, or purchase it from a third-party implementor and have them install it for them.
· June 7, 2018 · 5 min read
Platform9 helps customers build and run their cloud every day – with a SaaS-based, easy to use platform that lets you manage your hybrid environment- across bare metal, public cloud, containers and even Serverless. However, since the company’s inception, we have always run our own SaaS offering and our backend systems on AWS. When you’re
· May 30, 2018 · 4 min read
This week, I had the opportunity to attend the OpenStack Summit, hosted in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. IT was an exhilarating 4-days packed with all things OpenStack: Our own Cody Hill delivered two talks (!) at the conference, and my colleagues and I enjoyed the sessions at the summit, and the opportunity to
· May 24, 2018 · 4 min read
Platform9 offers the industry’s only SaaS delivered and managed cloud infrastructure platform that accelerates developer productivity while reducing IT spend and increasing resource utilization across data centers and clouds. Unlike traditional enterprise point solutions that rely on expensive professional services and lock you into their proprietary solutions, Platform9’s SaaS managed solution, which involves the hosting
· May 2, 2018 · 3 min read
What is Calico? Project Calico is designed to simplify, scale, and secure cloud networks. The open source framework enables Kubernetes networking and network policy for clusters across the cloud. It was originally designed for today’s modern cloud-native world and runs on both public and private clouds. Within the Kubernetes ecosystem, Calico is starting to emerge
· April 17, 2018 · 3 min read
As we talk to our customers about moving from OpenStack into the new world of Kubernetes, we get involved in a lot of conversations about what it means for their monitoring infrastructure. In the old world of servers and virtual machines, people were used to monitoring monolithic applications, where they would look at services on
· April 10, 2018 · 3 min read
Kubernetes has a large and innovative community actively working on projects resulting in a new Kubernetes version coming out every few months. Mid to large enterprises need to stay current with these new innovations and that includes regular Kubernetes upgrades with minimal or zero disruption to the organization. Reasons for Kubernetes Upgrades There are two
· April 3, 2018 · 4 min read
OpenStack has become the chosen platform for managing enterprise data centers due to its ability to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service environment and to run scalable, high availability (HA) applications on top of it for private cloud (on premise) deployments. In computing terms, availability refers to the time a particular service is functionally available in a given
· March 26, 2018 · 3 min read
OpenStack Ironic is an OpenStack project that provisions bare metal machines rather than virtual machines. Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) allows you to provision your Hadoop or SQL workloads, or even a hypervisor, on to bare metal infrastructures and treat them like cloud instances. Bare metal provisioning isn’t something new; it’s been in use
· March 20, 2018 · 3 min read