Sometimes, taking a look at a problem from a different angle makes it look different. As a recent meme showed, a six and a nine are the same marks, just viewed from ...

For the last three years, F5 Networks has surveyed its users and presented the "State of Application Delivery" report. This year's report is already a couple of weeks old, and I've had ...

Scheduling is a large part of making the data center go, and more to the point of making the virtualized (be it VMs, cloud, containers, or clustering) portion of the data center ...

As you may know, I’m pretty interested in the newest round of clustered computing these days. I’m digging in pretty deep to see how well-suited it is to the enterprise, and how ...

I’m a technologist turned into a word person. For those of you who know me, I started as a developer, learned ops and security as it was needed, and eventually my love ...

Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations haven’t done ...

As regular readers know, I’ve been digging into Mesos quite a bit these days and, for the most part, enjoying the entire ecosystem that has grown up around it. There are some ...

When building a house, work is done in teams. This work is managed by a foreman, supervisor, or general contractor, but let’s restrict ourselves to the teams doing finish work, and a ...

Mesosphere, purveyors of DC/OS, recently released a survey of Mesos users focused on Mesos deployment information. There were some interesting results, and a few things I wish they’d dug a little deeper ...

One of the things that many of us have been observing is that in the midst of a sea of other changes, data center architectures also are changing. By a lot. RAID ...