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Containerize all things? Containers seem to be the only answer these days for how applications should be deployed, especially in the web-scale and microservices systems models. In jumping on the container bandwagon, most developers see a real benefit in a reduction in the operations burden needed to implement a service, …
What is the value proposition of “the Cloud” for a business. Often the first (incorrect) thought is that it will be from jettisoning your IT department and seeing reduced operating costs. In this episode, Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, shows why this is _not_ the case. Rather, the business value …
In this final of four posts series on “What is the Cloud?”, Robert Starmer, CTO and Principal of Kumulus Technologies, explains the differences between the deployment or access models and wraps up the journey through the parts of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s formal definition of cloud …
The challenges of the Subject Matter Expert (SME): time is finite, expertise is scarce, demands are plentiful. When an SME is faced with the need to allocate time to share their knowledge, there is often a tension between educating and putting that expertise to other duties. In some situations, an …
This course will give you the knowledge, the skills and the confidence to automate you application deployment in the cloud. We use Jenkins on OpenStack as our primary example enviornment, though the general principles taught in this course are broadly applicable to other systems. Preregister for free and get started …
In this episode, part 3 of our 4-part series, we dive deeper into the three core on demand services provided by “The Cloud” – Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS,Compute, Storage and Networking), the well known Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and the often confusing (development) Platfom-as-a-Service (PaaS). Robert Starmer, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO, explains what these X-as-a-Service models …
We are operators and we have not been consumed by the Dev/Ops world. We still exist, and while we may look more similar than different, our application is the infrastructure that developers build on. We ensure platform stability, and API enabled accessibility, but not guaranteed availability. We provide visibility, but …
Saas, PaaS, IaaS – What are they anyway? The services a cloud provides to business can be divided into three categories according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cloud model: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While all clouds are built on real, physical infrastructure of …
Is your “Cloud” missing pooled resources, how about on-demand access to those resources? If so, you may not actually have a cloud. There are five essential characteristics that a compute cloud must have – or it fails the requirements and it is not a cloud. In part 2 of this …
With all the opinion-based cloud computing definitions out there, it is hard to come to an agreement about what “the Cloud” or a ‘cloud service’ is. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a clear and concise definition of what “Cloud” is that has been broadly …
