Ignition Partners brings a little bit of Seattle to the Bay area for Microsoft Build
Ignition Partners is throwing a party! Along with four of our portfolio companies – Chef, Cloudera, Couchbase and Xamarin – we will host a special reception in connection with the Microsoft Build Developers Conference 2015. The event will be held on Wednesday, May 29th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Press Club, 20 […]
Cyber-Ranges, Cloud Automation and DevOps
Cyber-security testing typifies some of the challenges of converting from traditional to DevOps ways of doing IT. While cyber security labs and cyber-ranges are often mission-critical investments for organizations that find themselves to be high-value targets for cyber-attacks, too many times cyber-security testing processes are siloed and highly manual. It’s time for cyber-ranges to move […]
The 8 “why’s” of Cloud
Myself and the gang have been talking about Cloud a lot recently as we are embarking on a multi-year journey. Cloud is fashionable but is this another cool toy for the techies? As an architect I think the most powerful question in my toolbox is “why”. Why are we doing this? Does it add business value? […]
Three tips for maximizing efficiency in the age of the hybrid cloud environment
Today’s organizations are achieving many benefits from using virtual computing resources, including increased flexibility, scalability, and accessibility. The adoption of the cloud as an addition to legacy systems has changed the way many companies use IT resources, allowing them to scale quickly and efficiently to meet fast-changing business needs. These hybrid solutions, where companies retain […]
Cloud or In-house with Chris Kinsman, Part 1
I sat down last week with Chris Kinsman, Chief Architect at PushSpring and a 20+ year veteran of software development, to talk about the factors that go into deciding when to migrate to the cloud. In Part 1 we’ll talk about what factors into the business and technical cases, and in Part 2 well look […]
In DevOps, On-Prem Is Dead
What you need to know about SaaS management tools The SaaS vs. on-premise debate has spanned the years since new age consumption models for technology were born. The accepted reasons to adopt SaaS are no-brainers for DevOps organizations. SaaS lets you start up fast, is asset-free, and has a lower commitment subscription model. You expect […]
The One Where All the Deployments Stall
In the first episode of the DevOps story, DChip CEO Phoebe gave Chandler an ultimatum to move out of AWS into their datacenter on OpenStack. Does Chandler succeed? Read on to find out… Fast forward two weeks since that fateful night. Chandler is preparing for yet another leadership call. It’s deja vu, with the same […]
The Docker whale swallows another one, Kitematic
Docker announced another acquisition yesterday, the 2nd one in the last two weeks. This time they have swallowed up Kitematic, a Canadian open source project that makes it setting up Docker on a Mac really easy, Like up and running in 5 minutes easy. I know some of you may be asking yourself, “I am […]
Are VMs becoming El Caminos?
In 2010, it looked as if virtualization had won. We expected all servers to virtualize workloads and the primary question was which cloud infrastructure manager would dominate. Now in 2015, the picture is not as clear. I’m seeing a trend that threatens the “virtualize all things” battle cry. Really, it’s two intersecting trends: metal is […]
Chef and Microsoft Cooking Up Something Big
Chef and Microsoft today announced a major upgrade to their partnership. After twelve months of work integrating Chef, it is thoroughly integrated not only into the Azure stack, but into the Windows stack as well . This will empower enterprises to work in Azure/hybrid cloud environments using Chef’s best in class capabilities to collaborate on […]
Migrating to the Cloud? Some practical advice
Oh if the world was only Greenfields. If everything was new and we didn’t have to worry about legacy systems, what a wonderful world it would be. But that is not the way of it unfortunately. More times than not using the cloud for our applications and infrastructure means migrating some existing infrastructure from an […]
The Internet of APIs
The Internet moves at the speed of light. Not only that, but the terminology used when describing The Internet seems to change with the tides. One of the newest phrases to start making the rounds is “The Internet of APIs.” In an attempt to understand exactly what it is, I went looking for a definition […]
Optimize your spend on AWS through Reserved Instances
Over the last few years Amazon has gradually raised its compute capacity and provided the user with a set of advanced analytical and structural services. For each service, you can expand precisely for the amount of resources you actually need and shall pay for each resource usage at the end of each month. In the […]
Confident Financial Solutions is cutting edge with ChatOps for log monitoring
If I told you a company named Confident Financial Solutions is on the front line of adopting DevOps methods to better serve their customers you might say, “Come again?” Let’s face it Confident Financial Solutions doesn’t sound like the type of company that would be stretching the envelope of technology. But don’t let the name […]
Turn IT into a Service Catalog
Unless you live under a rock in the world of cloud computing, you’re probably aware of a growing generational gap between public clouds and enterprise IT. Public clouds versus enterprise IT Consider the size of budgets public cloud companies invest in R&D. The budgets are astronomically huge when you compare to the budget of a […]
Containers Are Designed For an Antiquated Application Architecture
In his most recent GigaOm article, “We’re finally headed towards autonomous, self-migrating containers for cloud-application automation“, David Linthicum discusses the value that containers, such as Docker and CoreOS Rocket, are bringing to DevOps and cloud systems management. For the record nothing Dave states in the article is incorrect with regard to the expressed value that […]
Webinar: Managing CoreOS Container Performance for Production Workloads
As containers grow in importance, Linux distributions focused on container performance and management also are becoming mainstream. One of the most prevalent of these distributions is CoreOS. But how are real businesses using containers and CoreOS, and how are they monitoring container performance. After attending this webinar, you will have a better understanding of: * […]
Native support for Docker apps coming soon to Parallels
When I think of Parallels, the first thing that comes to mind is virtual machines. I have used Parallels for years as a means of running a virtualized instance of a Windows operating system from within Mac OS X. In addition to virtual machines, though, Parallels was also doing containers before containers were cool, and […]
AWS Key Management Service
Security of data and applications whether stored on-premises or in the cloud has always been a supreme issue of influence. To date AWS has provided it’s customers with services that help in securing and encrypting the data e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic Block Store(EBS) which is a server-side encryption service, Amazon Redshift, Amazon RDS for […]
AWS Lambda – Useful for DevOps Automation?
One of the highlights of AWS re:Invent, judging by the twitter stream and the points emphasized in Amazon CTO Werner Vogel’s Day 2 keynote and blog post, was the launch of Lambda. In his blog announcing Lambda, Vogel calls the solution “the easiest way to compute in the cloud.” He goes on to describe it […]
Transforming applications with Cloud and DevOps – one hybrid solution for multiple challenges
Are you on cloud yet or clouded? The answer lies in how you have adopted the transformation. Today, the world is Hybrid. For large enterprises and organizations, it always has been. Almost no enterprise is monolithic when it comes to their environments. They may already have different distributed environments and/or mainframes in their ecosystem. The […]
I Like Your Backend
Back in the early 80’s, dumb terminal networks ruled enterprise IT. Mammoth mainframe IT infrastructures worked as centralized corporate computing platforms feeding a vast nexus of thin clients performing mundane IT operations as intended. Perhaps that was all what end-users longed for. Present day users however, command superior application performance and functionality to quench their […]
Why We Build in Docker Containers
We are using Docker as a virtualization technology for our continuous delivery/deployment pipelines, in Rultor.com. We experimented with other technologies and Docker’s approach proved to be the best fit for our needs. Docker is a command line tool that can run a shell command in a virtual Linux, inside an isolated file system. Every time we build, we […]