With the advent of distributed infrastructure systems such as cloud computing and edge computing, the management of applications, services, and data has become a major challenge for businesses. Administrators managed applications and data on-premises before the advent...
This year, a somewhat unexpected term made its way on to Gartner's 2023 Infrastructure and Operations hype cycle: infrastructure orchestration (reprint available). This strategic move by Gartner deserves a closer look. How can your infrastructure and operations teams...
I’m Avneet, a RackN AI/ML Intern, and I have been developing AI integrations within RackN’s systems. I was asked to explore how RackN could best use LLMs to improve customer experience. To answer that, I’ve developed two AI-centric projects for Digital Rebar: a...
The RackN Digital Rebar platform helps organizations build end-to-end infrastructure as code (IaC) workflows for any infrastructure type. Running IaC is critical to rapidly deploying infrastructure changes. It can prevent long infrastructure delays that impact the...
RackN is excited to announce the release of Digital Rebar v4.11. This release focused on security, performance, and operational enhancements. Feedback from our customers tell us that core improvement-focused releases often have a faster ROI because they...
All platform teams share the same primary mission: improve developer productivity. There may be many other organization-specific secondary goals for creating platforms such as controlling cost, improving security, maintaining high site reliability, and...
We hope you’re not caught up in remediation after the Microsoft and CrowdStrike outage. Even if you escaped this latest global infrastructure crisis, you are likely asking “we should patch less?” Not at all. In fact, we need to get much, much better at updates and...
Author: Greg Althaus Level: Intermediate Time: 5 minutes From time to time, we get questions about why we chose to do something the way we did. Usually preceded by that looks really strange or a bizarre way to do that. Well, I won’t say we are always perfect, but we...
Moving away from VMware can be complex. Our latest flowchart shows how to move away from single-source VMware Broadcom towards becoming a multi-vendor infrastructure. While not meant to be taken literally, it walks through the critical decision-making process of...
Concerns about VMware aren't new, they existed before the acquisition, but they’re a growing crisis due to recent changes by Broadcom. Many in the industry are looking for answers or alternatives to VMware. That’s why we’re providing access to The CIO’s Guide to...
In a recent four-part series hosted by Intellyx, critical lessons on building more productive infrastructure were discussed. Each post stands alone with valuable insights, but taken together, they present a comprehensive guide for enterprises looking to optimize their...
