The Kumulus Technologies Blog
This is great. Distributed your storage, and support others. Not a new idea, but as an OpenSource project running on a RasberryPI? Well, that’s a bit new. There’s lots still to discover about this technology, such as how to ensure that data security is maintained, and what about snooping traffic …
Pools of Storage, Networking, and Compute resources comprise the essential elements of a cloud. In this first of four episodes on the topic, Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains some of the considerations for enabling these services of an Infrastructure as a Service offering– as may be enabled by software …
Go figure, it’s the new year, and time for new pricing. In the past year, Amazon started to present actual data on it’s AWS service business performance (partially because their other businesses revenue didn’t grow as much as anticipated), but also to perhaps give some folks a push to get …
Platform as a service (PaaS) systems are changing the relationship of applications developers to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) systems. This change is having a ripple effect in the world of DevOps practitioners that are most interested in application development enabled by PaaS and the new container paradigms and less …
PLUMgrid hosted the San Francisco Bay Area OpenStack meetup this week, and we had a presentation by Gaetano Borgione on OpenStack integrated networks. I think his presentation can be summed up as follows: Virtual and Physical networks need to be cooperatively integrated from some form of central management ‘controller’, and …
In a lecture setting, it is presumed that that the words uttered by sage individuals in the front of the class will drift out through the room to eternally embed themselves in the memory of the spongily attentive students. Yet there are a few problems with this picture. The role …
We have, since the 1800’s and perhaps a bit before, lived and learned in the industrial age of education. Our learning institutions were built to produce minds fattened on facts in the feedlots, I mean classrooms. At the end of the process, we get the blurred blue stamp — pass, fail, grade …
I’ve gotta come right out and say it: Open Virtual Switch– or OVS– is the wrong switch for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). That’s not to say it’s the wrong switch for virtual, or even as a base layer integration for Software Defined Networks…but it is absolutely the wrong solution …
In Part 1 of this Container series, we covered the historic shift in how applications are run and how segregation is provided via the Container model. Now we can focus on how we achieve that segregated state, as well as the current set of tools that are making this easier. …
What’s all the fuss about? Why has the concept of Linux containers become the current rallying cry of cloud infrastructure and Agile/Extreme developers? In this article, we’ll take a look at Linux container history from both the perspective of the evolution of the technology and its value from a developer’s …
