Data Center Management and Automation: Strategies for Modern Infrastructure
November 12, 2025
The rise of hybrid infrastructure, edge computing, and cloud-native architecture has added layers of complexity to traditional IT operations.
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Slaying the five infrastructure automation dragons
September 13, 2024
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
Infrastructure Orchestration: Gartner’s Rising Star of 2023
October 25, 2023
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
Gartner Hype Cycle for I&O Automation 2023: shifting from hype to productivity
September 5, 2023
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™
5 Steps to vendor neutrality
August 1, 2023
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
Is it possible to un-sprawl multi-cloud operations?
November 15, 2022
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
The 5 ways Kubernetes reshaped ops
October 23, 2022
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
How to Scale Infrastructure as Code
September 14, 2022
Global banks, service providers and media companies rely on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives to transform their IT delivery and operations processes. We know, because
The Future of VMware: should you be worried?
June 7, 2022
Last week, Broadcom announced its intention to acquire VMware. That has our industry wondering: what is the future of VMware? We know many RackN customers rely on
TFiR interviews about Digital Rebar v4.6
May 20, 2021
Pair of recent posts from TFiR discuss how RackN is changing the game with infrastructure automation.