Cisco Looks to Bridge Gap Between Networking and DevOps
Networking in the enterprise has always stood apart. It might take two minutes or less to spin up a virtual machine, but it can take two weeks to set up the network connections. To help bridge some of the gaps between networking and the rest of the DevOps team, Cisco Systems this week unveiled a […]
DevOps Chat: Puppet Extends Enterprise Credentials with Michael Olson
Puppet made three major announcements today around new versions of their flagship products, new products independent of Puppet Enterprise and a major expansion of partner programs and offices in the face of record growth over the last 12 months. As I detailed in my article on these announcements, these 3 taken together paint a clear […]
Puppet Solidifies Enterprise Provider Status With Bevy Of Announcements
Puppet has been maturing from a company with an enthusiastic base of users of an open source tool, to a leading provider of enterprise DevOps solutions for the last few years. Things really accelerated with the appointment last year of Sanjay Mirchandani, as CEO and the group of experienced, A+ players he brought to the […]
Cisco and Docker Team to Modernize Cloud and Data Center Application Environments
SAN JOSE, Calif.—March 2, 2017—Today, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and Docker Inc. announced a strategic alliance for worldwide engineering, sales and support to deliver essential container capabilities for application-centric data center and cloud infrastructure. Customers can modernize applications using Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) with Docker Datacenter, and deliver them securely and efficiently across Cisco Unified Computing System […]
What Cisco’s OpFlex means for DevOps
Some big news in networking land at Interop this year revolved around Cisco’s latest contribution to open source and the Internet, its proposed “OpFlex” control plane protocol. The protocol itself is focused on communicating with network elements and specifies encoding in a variety of formats, including JSON, that are developer-friendly. That’s nice, of course, but […]
Google Starts Cloud World War I, DevOps Wins
No matter the outcome, a cloud pricing war will leave DevOps the winner By now you probably saw the news and all of the buzz about how Google dropped its drawers eh, pricing on its cloud hosting. This is of course a direct shot at Amazon’s AWS. It’s about time someone with big enough stones (and […]