As the CEO of RackN, I’ve had many conversations with IT leaders and operations teams about performance metrics. In those meetings, it’s clear that there’s a common challenge: it’s hard getting good, steady results when managing infrastructure because overarching...
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...
Top Infrastructure Trends in complimentary Gartner Predicts 2024 report
As 2024 begins, strategic planning becomes a major focus for IT leaders. Gartner Predicts 2024: Mind the Gap Between Infrastructure and Infrastructure Platforms offers a lens through which we can prepare for the future of IT. Handpicked by RackN’s CEO, we’re excited...
Why Zero Touch Provisioning is a Game Changer for Enterprise IT
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the ability to deploy and manage server infrastructure efficiently is more than just a convenience—it's a competitive necessity. Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) emerges as a pivotal technology in this context, offering a...
Revolutionary bare metal?! Unearthing innovation in infrastructure
A common, but misleading, belief in IT infrastructure that bare metal is as boring as dirt. This perspective assumes that dirt is static and unchangeable. It fails to recognize its revolutionary productivity potential, akin to the transformation in farming methods:...
Four ways to reduce integration friction and defeat hype
This year, like every year, a new crop of buzzwords enter the Hype Cycle with the result of friction and frustration upon implementation. Too often, challenge and complexity come from embracing the newest technologies on the annual Gartner Infrastructure &...
Six Layers of Infrastructure Management with Digital Rebar v4.13
In the world of infrastructure management, complexity is a given—but so is the need for control and automation. The latest release of Digital Rebar added the last features needed to become a standalone infrastructure platform for automation and management on all...
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,...
Digital Rebar v4.13: The Complete Infrastructure Platform
Across both our customers and the market, we've heard a consistent need for a complete infrastructure platform. The lack of a true end-to-end infrastructure solution adds unnecessary complexity and effort to an already complex landscape. And so, with v4.13, we pushed...
Optimizing operational excellence with KPIs
As the CEO of RackN, I’ve had many conversations with IT leaders and operations teams about performance metrics. In those meetings, it’s clear that there’s a common challenge: it’s hard getting good, steady results when managing infrastructure because overarching...
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...