Integrated HA breakthrough in Digital Rebar v4.6
Digital Rebar v4.6 is the most significant RackN release to date. With this release, we are delivering a capability few have dreamed of yet something our customers really wanted: Integrated HA. Who Needs Integrated HA? Reliable infrastructure is the foundation of all other IT functions. If your management platform is down for any reason, your infrastructure […]
Set it and Forget it Infrastructure: Introducing Universal Workflow
RackN Digital Rebar v4.6 is our most significant release milestone to date (read the launch announcement here). Universal Workflow is a new Digital Rebar feature that enables organizations to apply consistent, repeatable automation pipelines across every type of infrastructure in their global footprint. Universal Workflow brings integrated automation pipelines that facilitate ever-increasing scale and standardization demands […]
Easy VMware Installs – Magical Dream or Reality?
VMware is core to most operational environments, so why can’t we have easy VMware installs? Do things like easy VMware installs, updating hardware so upgrades (or patch fixes) take hours instead of weeks, repaving servers after a security scare, or properly decommissioning and repurposing cluster hardware sound like a magical dream? At RackN, easy VMware […]
Time waster or hero? Five ways to be both
No one wants to be a time waster. It’s easy to think that IT Ops tends to focus on perceived time waster tasks. These are the tedious tasks like getting things working, keeping systems up, and solving mundane problems that keep business moving. Although you may consider such tasks to be time wasters, sometimes they […]
What it Takes to Support Hardware
Even before the founders of RackN conceived of RackN as a company, we were struggling with what it really takes to support hardware. How do you get physical servers and other data center infrastructure components fit together as one system? We wanted to solve this hard problem. However, we found that it isn’t easy to […]
RackN Breaks the Infrastructure as Code Barrier
Your infrastructure should be easy to manage, and outsourcing control to somebody else doesn’t have to be a foregone conclusion. We built RackN Digital Rebar to break the infrastructure as code barrier. Digital Rebar is infrastructure management software that provides distributed infrastructure as code (IaC) management for on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. How does it work? Perhaps we need to […]
Digital Rebar Tips and Tricks: Navigation and Golang
This week are sharing RackN Digital Rebar tips and tricks for RackN UX for Digital Rebar navigation and Golang Templates. Let us know if you have any questions about these tips in the comments, on Twitter (@rackn), or in the Community Slack. New UX Features First up in tips and tricks: The RackN UX for Digital Rebar has a […]
Is AWS the only future for on-premises clouds?
At AWS re:Invent this week, there was much fanfare about the public cloud provider’s new solutions for on-premises clouds. In fact, many pundits in the industry look at the hyperscale clouds, and AWS specifically, and see a future where only a select few understand infrastructure and operations. The future is portrayed as a place void […]
Business Reasons to adopt Infrastructure as Code?
Can adopting Infrastructure as Code (IaC) help your business? It sure can, and Rob talks about this on TFiR. Looking for more info? Check out Rob’s Post about the Business of IaC. Since the video is a little long (14mins), here’s a breakdown of the video: 00:00 Intro 00:59 What is Flow Manufacturing? 02:35 Transparency 05:37 Security 10:51 […]
Is Infrastructure Cool? Gartner Thinks RackN is!
Gartner recently named RackN a “2020 Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing.” It’s a coveted designation, and we are honored, but cool? Ask a VC and you’ll hear that the stuff we do is not cool: Infrastructure is technological plumbing and polar opposite of cool. And yet, our work solves real-world problems for scale operators. To our customers, […]