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Should IT Model Construction?
June 23, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. I’ve worked in just about every job in tech. For this blog, I’ll mention the two roles likely to come up again later – Manager of Enterprise...
View ArticleThe Cloud is in a Datacenter
July 13, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. Funny thing about the never-ending discussions of cloud, virtualization, and containers out here in pundit-land… Most writers blithely ignore the...
View ArticleThe Age of Ultimation.
It’s here. While we were sweating VM bloat, and throwing barbs at each other about VMs versus containers, it snuck up on us. While some were decrying that cloud would end the datacenter, while others...
View ArticleIt Is Past Time To Deconstruct “DevOps”
July 31, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. It is interesting to me, how quickly the hype cycle of a good thing can turn it into a monster that will inevitably eat itself, leaving a much...
View ArticleIf Hardware is Commodity… Why Are We Still Spending so Much Time on It?
August 10, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. We really are moving in the direction of truly commoditized hardware. Some uses will always have specific requirements that are not mainstream...
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If You Look Close, You Can See Ops’ Future.
August 20, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. The evolution of IT operations is upon us. There has been a lot of change in both direction and momentum over the last several years, and at...
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Stacki 2 – More Enterprise, More Enterprises.
September 14, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. Since the first release of the Stacki Open Source project, it has seen the type of growth that one would expect of a cutting edge tool that...
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Continuous Provisioning
Now, with more hardware! September 21, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. The “continuous” trend is continuing (get it..?), and we’ll soon reach the peek of the hype cycle, with continuous...
View ArticleTruth is, IT is currently driven by speed.
October 6, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. For all the buzz-words and high-flying markets out there today, the truth of the matter is that at this point in time, IT is driven by speed....
View ArticleChange Management Got Bigger.
October 30, 2015, Don MacVittie, Sr. Solutions Architect. While we were busy throwing parts of our organizations into the cloud, and (for those who don’t count it as cloud) SaaS, while we were moving...
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The Language of Provisioning.
If you think of automated provisioning as a formal written language definition, it does have some value in illuminating issues with partial automation or portions of the overall data center that are...
View ArticleStacki 3.0 Release – New Features and Interoperability improvements
Today. StackIQ announced the release of Stacki 3.0. While there are new features that support both enterprise and web-scale deployments, the big news is that StackIQ’s product line has been reorganized...
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Slice and Dice. DevOps and Automation.
Because of the explosive growth of DevOps, there is still a seemingly large amount of confusion on the topic. While I’ve written about this before, this article takes a shot at dividing things in a way...
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Automated versus Controlled
In the currently high-flying world of DevOps, automation is the king. We are “automating all of the things” at a pretty astounding rate, and it is increasing productivity by reducing the man-hours...
View ArticleLet’s Get Festive
Note: This post cross-posted from www.stack.com. Increasingly, a feature of open source projects is gatherings to talk about the project, use cases, and issues that users face. These birds-of-a-feather...
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The Hand-Off: Provisioning the entire stack.
Image complements of University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. As we move into the world of complete datacenter automation, there is a whole new selection of issues that we are learning to...
View ArticleFree as in Beer
(Note: This blog originally posted to the Stacki Open Source project website. It has cosmetic changes to account for presentation differences between the two sites) Many years ago, I wrote a blog that...
View ArticleAutomation Aggregation: StackiFest!
Taking a break from being non-salesy to tell you about something that I think is really cool, and happens to be sponsored by my employer. Since I don’t write blogs dedicated to all the other really...
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Infrastructure as (someone else’s) code.
We are rapidly approaching a world where the bulk of datacenter day-to-day operations are automated. The major application provisioning tools are integrating with infrastructure vendor APIs to give...
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Why you need devOPS: Complexity.
Image compliments of: Symbols.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2016. Web. 4 Apr. 2016. For those unfamiliar, as a developer working in marketing for an infrastructure automation company, I have tried to clarify the...
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