The Battle for your Private Cloud has begun....


OPENSTACK & CLOUDSTACK STRATEGIC COMPARISON



PROVISIONING NETAPP FLEXPODs with VMWARE on CISCO


AMAZON WEB 2.0 SERVICE CLOUDS FOR ALL



MICROSOFT FROM BARE METAL TO PRIVATE CLOUD


Tuesday, November 4, 2014

CLOUD 4.0 - Staying ahead of your compeittors with EPiC AWS Devops

OPENSTACK DEVOPS STACKS WITH AWS





The emergence of cloud computing in recent years has introduced a remarkable shift in the enterprise IT landscape. By reducing the amount of effort and time required to provision infrastructure and deploying applications and services, businesses have been able to accelerate development cycles to deliver products to market faster. With cloud technology now ubiquitous, affordable, and easily accessible, how can organisations extract even greater efficiency out of their IT processes and maintain competitive advantages over their rivals? DevOps could be the answer.
 



For over a decade, many industry leaders including Intel have collaborated to deliver advanced datacenter solutions based on Linux, virtualization, and more recently the OpenStack cloud operating environment. With a wealth of practical experience in large-scale infrastructure and software development best practices, these companies recognize distinct advantages of the DevOps approach and are committed to advocating and nurturing the growth of this IT methodology. But what is DevOps and how can organisation benefit by adopting it?
 
 



To put it simply, DevOps is the melding of the software development and system operations disciplines within IT teams in order to facilitate rapid, scalable application development and deployment.The term itself is relatively new, having being coined in 2009. However, many of the concepts and ideas it presents were born out of agile methodologies developed years earlier. Agile development focuses on product delivery through clearly defined feature development, quality testing, and maintenance processes. This philosophy helps break down traditional rivalries and boundaries between development and operations teams, and has largely driven the DevOps movement.

 
 

FULL STORY ZDNET -  http://www.zdnet.com/staying-ahead-of-your-competitors-with-devops-7000034792/

Thursday, October 2, 2014

CLOUD 4.0 - EPiC DevOps Cloud - Draft Concept Mark 1

MARK 1 - Concept




Explanation is it really needed... happy DevOps mashup'ing   the Internet of Things ;)


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Combining the two ideas, the natural implication is that infrastructure is also data, and can be similarly introspected, modified, and used for decision making. In other words, we can do math on infrastructure. We'll look at some interesting ways this data can be filtered, combined, and applied to achieve results which would be difficult to describe directly in code.

http://puppetlabs.com/presentations/infrastructure-data
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This session will provide an overview of the cisco developed puppet functionality for management and configuration of Cisco devices.

Presenter: 
Jason Pfeifer


http://puppetlabs.com/presentations/managing-cisco-devices-using-puppet




Monday, September 29, 2014

CLOUD 2.0 - EPiC DevOps Cloud using Microsoft Azure (Of all things)



DevOps with the Cloud using Microsoft Azure 
and Friends



Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly driven by business demands for faster, better solutions delivered more quickly than ever before.  Over the past few years, DevOps has emerged as a trend to help organizations evolve to better collaborate between development and operations teams for addressing these solution delivery challenges.  While a DevOps transformation can take time to fully realize within an organization’s people and processes, there’s opportunities to accelerate the path towards DevOps by smartly leveraging cloud capabilities that can reduce infrastructure complexity, simplify release management, and support end-to-end application visibility through all stages of a solution’s lifecycle.