What is in a Name (Server)?

What is in a Name (Server)?

Author: Greg Althaus Level: Intro Time: 5 minutes   Digital Rebar Platform has always provided for your data center infrastructure provisioning and day-two operations. Even though we provide DHCP services, file services, job tracking, machine state management,...

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What is in a Name (Server)?

Triggering Work Orders to Audit Systems

Author: Greg Althaus Level: Intro Time: 5 minutes As a technical operations leader, you’re developing your latest system audit script. You need to run it on all your systems. Of course, security says weekly. If only you could deploy that script into your automation...

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Introducing Byte-sized Bits

Introducing Byte-sized Bits

In our new Byte-sized Bits series brings insights and experiences directly from our RackN engineering team, starting with an introduction from our CTO, Greg Althaus. Through this series, we will delve into the intricacies and evolving features of the Digital Rebar...

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Slaying the five infrastructure automation dragons

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and co-founder of RackN, recently gave a 20 minute presentation on how to slay the five most critical automation dragons. Drawing from our experience with customers and in the industry, we addressed the infrastructure automation challenges...

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Why we think this Hype Cycle™ is essential for bare metal

Year over year, Gartner® analysts predict massive changes. Sometimes the market changes are relatively minor, but sometimes they’re the canary in the coal mine for industry upheaval. This year, one report really stood out to us as it mirrors the challenges we see our...

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Oops! Secure Boot isn’t just about booting?

Secure Boot is often seen as a one-and-done infrastructure security measure—turn it on, and you’re good to go. Oops… Recent UEFI key exposures and incomplete revocation lists have shown that even with Secure Boot enabled, you’re not fully protected unless you’re also...

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Essential agility KPIs for IT operations

As we get further into our series on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), it’s clear that setting and following the right metrics is essential for aligning IT operations with business objectives. Building on our previous discussion about the strategic importance of...

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Back to bare metal? The case for “devirtualization”

Traditionally, virtualization has been an IT cornerstone, providing automation and consistency. But with recent events undermining the reliability of virtualization, it might be time to reevaluate its role in your infrastructure. However, the concept of...

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Slaying the five infrastructure automation dragons

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO and co-founder of RackN, recently gave a 20 minute presentation on how to slay the five most critical automation dragons. Drawing from our experience with customers and in the industry, we addressed the infrastructure automation challenges...

Why we think this Hype Cycle™ is essential for bare metal

Year over year, Gartner® analysts predict massive changes. Sometimes the market changes are relatively minor, but sometimes they’re the canary in the coal mine for industry upheaval. This year, one report really stood out to us as it mirrors the challenges we see our...

Oops! Secure Boot isn’t just about booting?

Secure Boot is often seen as a one-and-done infrastructure security measure—turn it on, and you’re good to go. Oops… Recent UEFI key exposures and incomplete revocation lists have shown that even with Secure Boot enabled, you’re not fully protected unless you’re also...

Essential agility KPIs for IT operations

As we get further into our series on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), it’s clear that setting and following the right metrics is essential for aligning IT operations with business objectives. Building on our previous discussion about the strategic importance of...

Back to bare metal? The case for “devirtualization”

Traditionally, virtualization has been an IT cornerstone, providing automation and consistency. But with recent events undermining the reliability of virtualization, it might be time to reevaluate its role in your infrastructure. However, the concept of...

Why do we keep breaking IT systems?!

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...

Double Negatives – No, Well Yes!

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...

Choose your own VMware exit adventure!

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...

Our VMware Advice: Ruthless Optimization and Rightsizing

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...