Independent Experts United
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Moderator Stephen Foskett poses a completely non-controversial question: is DevOps a load of crap? Does DevOps just turn into NoOps? What are these darn kids doing with our infrastructure? The roundtable debates all these questions and more.
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: It’s no secret that Docker and containers have been threatening to change the world for a while now. And they already have for some of us. But you know what… there’s always been something missing, something preventing it from taking off big style. Like a missing ingredient or something. Well […]
Nigel Poulton of nigelpoulton.com comments: So Docker, Inc. just announced native clustering and orchestration. TLDR; I reckon it’s the biggest thing to happen to Docker since Docker, and I expect it to be a game-changer. In true Docker form, this is both ridiculously simple, and reassuringly secure. Think I sound like a shill or a […]
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: First up…. this has nothing to do with saving trees – at least of the botanical variety. This has everything to do with Docker in the enterprise! Background So… I spun up some new Docker hosts the other day… and it wasn’t long before I needed my trusty […]
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: The days of server and desktop Operating Systems looking and feeling the same are gone – those are the olden days! We’re being invaded by a new breed of *proper* server Operating Systems. These guys are stripped down, hardened, tuned and optimised for server workloads. They’ve got none […]
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: Quickly setting the scene……. Containers are rocking the IT world. I think they’re the next generation of virtualisation technology. And I think in time they’ll supersede the virtual machine as the dominant runtime environment for applications. And Docker is emerging as the de facto standard in this new world of […]
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: Anyway, as part of the presentation, Rod Bagg (VP of Customer Support) made the claim that ~60% of Nimble storage arrays get upgraded during business prime time hours. Seriously! During the middle of the business day! And Rod clarified that these are production systems, not just test systems […]
Nigel Poulton comments on his blog: So aaaages ago I downloaded and played with the community edition of NexentaStor — one of the real early software defined storage (SDS) technologies. And I remember being pretty excited…. I mean, at the time, SDS was still in its primordial state, and here was a free-to-download working product! […]
Nigel Poulton of Technical Deep Dive comments: The way I see it, the VSA approach offers more choice, more competition, and is ideologically superior. I’m a huge believer that competition drives innovation, as well as value for customers. Not only are there a ton of VSA products to choose from, but VSAs commoditize the hypervisor. […]
