Why Most Infrastructure Teams Can’t Scale (And How to Fix It)
TL;DR: Scaling infrastructure isn’t about adding more servers or people. It’s about eliminating the manual processes and configuration drift that make growth expensive and unreliable. Most IT environments weren’t built to scale, and that’s why so many teams find themselves trapped in firefighting mode. Here’s a conversation we have with operations teams almost weekly: “We […]
A New Way to Decommission Servers
New servers bring efficiency gains, but old gear doesn’t vanish when the new machines are onboarded. The old servers are often still functional and valuable, but it’s not the best idea to just let them sit in your data centers. If left unmanaged, they waste space, pose security risks, and might end up in landfills. […]
Making Patch Management More Resilient
Patch management is often seen as routine, but the report How to Balance Patch Management and Operational Resilience by Gartner® analysts Lina Al Dana, Todd Larivee, and Chris Saunderson shows that it is central to how IT Operations stay resilient and limit risk. It states that “a risk-based patch management approach enabled by I&O and security collaboration […]
Bare Metal is Boring – Until It Breaks
In enterprise IT, we talk a lot about automation, cloud-native platforms, and innovation. But the layer everything depends on is often ignored: bare metal. Why? Because bare metal is boring. Until it breaks. Boring ≠Simple Many assume bare metal is simple because it changes slowly and doesn’t get much attention. That’s a mistake. Bare metal […]
Bare Metal Hypervisors
For those seeking optimal performance, scalability, and flexibility in their virtual machines, a bare metal hypervisor is the answer you seek. From cloud edge environments to high-performance computing setups, these powerful tools unlock unmatched control and efficiency. Still, it’s important to understand just what, exactly, a bare metal hypervisor is in the first place, as […]
OpenShift Virtualization vs. VMware
Many of today’s businesses are rethinking their virtualization strategies. Some, in fact, are even considering a move away from VMware in favor of an alternative: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization. While VMware excels at supporting virtual machines and scalable workloads, its licensing model is complicated and expensive. OpenShift, in contrast, is built on Kubernetes and offers […]
What’s New in Digital Rebar v4.15
The release of Digital Rebar v4.15 focuses on strengthening enterprise capabilities in core infrastructure automation areas: platform control, lifecycle management, secure networking, and support for air-gapped environments. Central to these improvements are the new processes for managing ESXi with Secure Boot, enhanced air gap support, including better backup and restore and easier Digital Rebar installation […]
Why Discovery is Critical in Infrastructure Automation
In enterprise data centers, success is decided by your processes before the first script runs. A critical step for success is discovery, the act of identifying, verifying, and cataloging the actual state of your infrastructure. It’s often overlooked, but this step is the foundation for managing, scaling, and patching systems consistently. If you’re automating infrastructure […]
Why Image Deployment Is Worth the Effort
Want to cut provisioning time without cutting corners? It’s time to get serious about image deployment. Most teams start with scripted installs: booting a blank system, stepping through configuration, and installing packages one by one. This method is fine for small scale, but if you’re running data centers or edge fleets, you need something faster, […]
A New Way to Deploy Images with Eikon
Those who deploy images at scale know the pain of managing and troubleshooting third-party tools like Canonical’s Curtin. Eikon, the new Digital Rebar image deployment feature, changes that. It replaces Curtin-based processes with something faster, clearer, and natively supported. Eikon frees you from the assumptions and limitations built into an Ubuntu-first toolchain. Instead, you get […]