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DefCore, the Big Tent, containers, Ironic, Puppet…. there was a lot going on at the most recent OpenStack summit. Cloud technologist and OpenStack expert Robert Starmer was there the entire week. In this video, he distills that week and downloads his top 5 (of course) key tidbits about the state of OpenStack …
In this episode, Kumulus CTO Robert Starmer discusses the benefits that a cloud-based ‘understack’ provides to users of Big Data systems. IaaS enables elasticity in Hadoop and Spark systems whether dealing with a virtual machine based environment or running on bare metal. Click the video above to learn more.
Are cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings safe enough for use by enterprise level businesses? In this episode, Robert Starmer notes that public cloud SaaS offerings do have data security, data sovereignty and user access security issues, but IaaS may have the solution. Click the video to learn how!
Enterprise applications cannot be ported to a Cloud environment with out spending time and money on the transition- a lot of time and money. End of story? Underneath much of the datacenter functionality provided by ‘cloud’ is infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or the ability to create and delete, rapidly and on-demand- virtual …
You have most certainly heard of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), possibly heard of IaaS (Infrastructure), but what about (PaaS)? One of the fastest growing areas of cloud computing services it is also one of the least understood. CTO Robert Starmer walks through what PaaS is and then outlines how enterprise users (applications …
Building OpenStack with PackStack on two UCS B200 Blade Servers Robert Starmer shares how to set up a CentOS-based OpenStack system with PackStack on physical hardware – two Cisco B200 blade servers. Along with the pragmatic, step-by-step process, learn about best practices and some options you might consider when running through …
“Compute” is on of the three core resource pools leveraged by cloud systems. In this episode, Robert Starmer introduces how computers fit into (and drive) the Cloud. Get a clear, concise introduction to how ‘traditional’ hypervisor-based virtualization differs from the ‘new’ container technology that has cloud technologists all abuzz. …
What does Cloud mean to you? It has differing benefits to you ‘as you,’ as a service provider, as an IT professional, as a business. Here, Kumulus CTO Robert Starmer explores how cloud will help you depending on which of these hats you are wearing and how in combination, …
