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minimesos – An experimentation and testing tool for Apache Mesos
minimesos – An experimentation and testing tool for Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos, it’s fair to say, is a battle-hardened system for treating your whole data center as one pool of resources. Through the use of frameworks
March 18, 2016
Enabling DevOps to Succeed: Go Beyond APIs
Enabling DevOps to Succeed: Go Beyond APIs
Bio: Lori MacVittie is responsible for education and evangelism of application services available across F5's entire software suite with an emphasis on...
Feb. 4, 2016
The Journey to DevOps and Composable Infrastructure
The Journey to DevOps and Composable Infrastructure
The rate of change is accelerating in IT. The need to provide your enterprise with a competitive advantage and to leverage new technologies is driving the
Jan. 28, 2016
Devops Means “No, you cannot operate my cloud”
Devops Means “No, you cannot operate my cloud”
One of the things I really believe strongly is that modern SaaS software development – both the practices and code it produces – are significantly different from traditional enterprise premises-based software development. Yet, I find that for people who have never built and operated a modern SaaS platform, these differences are difficult to grasp.
Dec. 15, 2015
Composable Infrastructure Part 4: Infrastructure as Code
Composable Infrastructure Part 4: Infrastructure as Code
How do you treat hardware like software? That question sounds like a contradiction, but we've been helping customers answer this question for the past six
Nov. 16, 2015
Composable Infrastructure, Part 3: “What is it??”
Composable Infrastructure, Part 3: “What is it??”
"Did you say compostable infrastructure? That means using a biodegradable cardboard chassis that can go in the compost bin, right?"  :)   This
Oct. 29, 2015
Microservices Infrastructure Release 0.3
Microservices Infrastructure Release 0.3
On behalf of the development team. I'm pleased to announce the 0.3.0 release of Microservices Infrastructure. In the weeks since 0.2, we've added a number
June 9, 2015
Hybrid Devops – Software Defined Disruption
Hybrid Devops – Software Defined Disruption
Businesses have been and will continue to be disrupted by software agility and innovation. If you have any questions, just ask, if they are still in
May 13, 2015
The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 3 – Group Policies
The Benefits of an Application Policy Language in Cisco ACI: Part 3 – Group Policies
The Cisco ACI fabric is designed as an application-centric intelligent network. The Cisco APIC policy model is defined from the top down as a policy
Oct. 17, 2014
Top 10 ISV challenges with Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Transformation
Top 10 ISV challenges with Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social Transformation
In my previous blog, I highlighted the need in ISV’s business transformation due to various changes in the market. Although ISVs are bound to face
Sept. 20, 2014
OpenStack Gains Momentum with Users at Recent Summit
OpenStack Gains Momentum with Users at Recent Summit
Cisco highlighted its support for OpenStack at the recent OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, which hosted 4500+ attendees and included many more...
May 29, 2014
Open Source Acceleration for Applications
Open Source Acceleration for Applications
In previous blogs I have described how organizations are maturing beyond provisioning of individual servers to provisioning of richer cloud-based
April 9, 2014