The Kumulus Technologies Blog
Kumulus Technologies is pleased to announce that we have formally joined OpenStack Foundation. OpenStack has been central to many of the cloud solutions we’ve had the honor of working on and is a central focus of our technical expertise. We have employees that have been involved with OpenStack since nearly …
Did you hear about the company that lost their data when their Cloud provider went our of business? Though not common, it has happened multiple times. If you are considering moving a system to the Cloud – Public, Hybrid or Private – who has access to your data, who hosts …
Did you know that Docker is not a “Thing”? It’s rather a collection of tools that enable users to build, run and manage containers. In this 5MoC episode, Robert Starmer explains what the pieces are and how they work together to provide the container service that has application developers so …
Containers are the darling of the DevOps world, changing the operations model to one more closely aligned with modern development models. However, there are few applications where one model fits all aspects of the development pipeline. And where containers fail, a classic VM or bare metal infrastructure is more appropriate. …
The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud service model has a lot of benefits for enterprise users. Some “legacy” enterprise apps will not fit this model, but surprisingly, a number can be transitioned to and managed from a PaaS. Moving forward, building applications on a PaaS, that abstract away much of the hardware …
OpenStack is a leader in open source cloud management systems (CMS) that, while it can be used to build PaaS and SaaS model clouds, was initially intended to provide IaaS cloud functionality. What is OpenStack and how does it provide an Infrastructure-as-a-Service? OpenStack is a collection of (primarily) python-based software …
One of the questions that often comes up is if you should use OpenStack to run Linux Containers, or if you should use Containers to run OpenStack. I think both are valid and interesting options, and to that end, I’ve been working with the OpenStack Kolla Project to get a …
Ben Franklin was wise with his money and he would have certainly considered his ROI on using Public or Private cloud services. It is clear that IT is headed towards a cloud centric model for all future development and deployment services, and this raises the age old model of rent vs. …
Did you know not all computers in the cloud are virtual? Learn about the changing world of the computer in cloud computing as Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, Robert Starmer, clarifies how baremetal, virtual servers and container technologies are changing how the cloud works. Click on the video above to watch! Need …
Uneducated opinion, rather than an educated decision, is more likely going to kill your efforts to transition to a cloud service model. I was teaching a class at a company that already had a private cloud for application development and testing. Upper management had already bought into the idea. The cloud …
