Choose your own VMware exit adventure!

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...

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Day 0 Bare Metal for VMware VCF

Day 0 Bare Metal for VMware VCF

Executive Summary SDDC Bare Metal Bootstrap puts control back in the hands of the VMware operators by eliminating manual operations, improving speed and consistency, and allowing the operator to focus on higher level value.  This software only solution allows...

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Quit Combining Your OpenShift Processes

Among the options available as alternatives to VMware, OpenShift stands out with its extra utility for developers. But the usefulness of OpenShift is a double-edged sword, creating issues when it's generalized. One of the key challenges we’ve seen is the tension...

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Embracing Bare Metal Kubernetes in the Cloud-Native Era

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...

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Unlock on-prem Kubernetes with Digital Rebar

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...

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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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Quit Combining Your OpenShift Processes

Among the options available as alternatives to VMware, OpenShift stands out with its extra utility for developers. But the usefulness of OpenShift is a double-edged sword, creating issues when it's generalized. One of the key challenges we’ve seen is the tension...

Embracing Bare Metal Kubernetes in the Cloud-Native Era

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...

Streamline and secure IT Operations with Digital Rebar v4.14

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...

Unlock on-prem Kubernetes with Digital Rebar

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...

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...