BankN.cloud Demo
BankN.cloud is a fictional bank used to demonstrate actual Infrastructure Pipelines used by RackN customers.
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.
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?
Rob discusses Edge Infrastructure with Mark Thiele [Edgevana Podcast]
This excellent discussion with Mark Thiele about the real challenges of managing a distributed infrastructure. This excellent discussion with Mark Thiele about the real challenges of managing a distributed infrastructure.
Gartner Research Automation Factory highlights RackN
Paul Delory lays out a comprehensive view of all the components in the flow required to deliver applications into production.
SmartNIC = A New Server Architecture? [VMworld & ONES insights]
ur industry is building an increasingly heterogeneous and distributed infrastructure without any real architecture from a management perspective. That’s why we have frothy battles about multi-cloud, hybrid IT and microservices that don’t actually help operators run their infrastructure.
VMworld 2020 Recap [TFiR]
Discussion of highlights about important announcements from VMworld 2020 including Saltstack Acquisition, SmartNIC (Project Monterery), Kubernetes (Project Tanzu), Cloud Foundation.
Is Kubernetes Too Complex?
Rob and Swapnil respond to The Register “No, Kubernetes doesn’t make applications portable, say analysts. Good luck avoiding lock-in, too” article. We discuss the fundamental paradox required for Kubernetes to become a generally useful platform.
RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud [DevOps.com]
“IT teams want to be able to provision bare-metal servers as if they were code…. Achieving that goal, however, should not require IT organizations to hire a site reliability engineer (SRE)” Read the full DevOps.com article.