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...
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...
UPDATE: At this time, this report has been swapped out for new Gartner research. RackN is a named vendor in the The Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for I&O Automation 2023. In fact, we were recognized in ten others as well (see the complete list below). Finally,...
As our digital landscapes evolve, maintaining vendor neutrality has become a critical business objective for organizations worldwide. We are seeing increased inquiries from enterprises seeking alternatives to VMware due to the Broadcom acquisition. Unfortunately,...
People involved in long standing feuds tend to forget why they started fighting in the first place. The current multi-cloud feud is not about Hatfield’s AWS vs McCoy’s Azure. It’s really a battle over IT’s mortal enemy: sprawl. Inevitably, sprawl will grow...
Seven years ago I started a ClusterOps SIG to build a Kubernetes community for operators. While the underlying network, compute and storage components now are stable, running infrastructure has (thankfully) changed over that time. So all these years later, has...
Bare Metal is making a bold resurgence in the world of cloud-native Kubernetes. At the recent CNCF KubeCon, the spotlight on AI and virtualization brought Bare Metal infrastructure back into focus as a critical topic of discussion. Organizations are increasingly...
Welcome to the latest advancements in Digital Rebar v4.14. This is a big update with essential security enhancements, previews of both our new image deployment tool, Eikon, and the OpenShift deployment process, and more. Based on input from our customers and...
As enterprises increasingly consider bare metal containerization to boost performance and control, the inherent challenges of this option often cause hesitation. While Kubernetes offers unmatched flexibility and scalability for containerized applications, its...
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...
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...
