In the dystopian 1973 sci-fi thriller Soylent Green, detective Frank Thorn discovers one of the primary food rations of the world in 2020- Soylent Green- is made of processed human remains. “Soylent green is people” is a climactic and most famous quote from the movie. The title of this article …
Are they really just Containers v2.0?
Unikernels – will they be the next hype thing after Containers or are they “just” Containers v2.0? How do they compare to Containers, Bare Metal or Serverless compute models? Kumulus Tech CTO, Robert Starmer, breaks down how they are like, yet differ from, Linux Containers and where their value proposition …
AKA “Function-as-a-Service”
Serverless Computing- a powerful Cloud function, but also the latest confusing buzzword in the world of Cloud computing and application development. Perhaps better described a “Function-as-a-Service,” this tool allows developers to focus on application development rather than the infrastructure needed to support an application. In this episode, Robert Starmer, Kumulus …
The Cloud – A Guide for Beginners
Hold on – if you know what PaaS is or already know the concept of the Cloud being an “On-demand, self-service” model of resource management, jump to the end of this post or check out our free intro to Cloud course. Many people think they have “the Cloud” figured out. …
Public Cloud is _not_ the answer.
The pundits are wrong. The Public vs Private vs Hybrid argument is sort of like arguing whether a truck, sedan or SUV is the car to own. Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, explains why like the car analogy, each deployment or service model has distinctive pros and cons that make …
DefragCon X – Cloud Application Development
DeFrag Con 10 was actually the last (it will merge with GlueCon after this) and it went back to its roots with a strong Cloud development focus. Robert Starmer, Kumulus Tech CTO and Founder, attended and shares his takeaways from the two days of keynotes and presentations. Day 1 Key …
Using OpenStack to Support a SaaS Cloud
OpenStack is, first and foremost, built to provide an Infrastructure-as-a-Service, however, its versatility has lent it to breaking out of that box and being used to build and support both PaaS and SaaS clouds. In this episode Robert Starmer, the CTO of Kumulus Technologies discusses how SaaS works and how …
How OpenStack Supports PaaS Clouds
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is “the Developer’s Cloud” – a cloud computing service model that provides software developers with the tools they need to build and deploy applications, without the need to worry about managing infrastructure. OpenStack, though designed as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform has several PaaS systems that integrate with it. In …
SF Bay OpenStack Meetup – OpenStack on Kubernetes?
This two-part session at the SFBay OpenStack Meetup looks at the idea of an Openstack Kubernetes IaaS. OpenStack was designed as a virtual server-focused IaaS platform. Kubernetes is the Google-invented, open source Container management platform. The meetup starts with a brief discussion by John Starmer, Kumulus Tech’s Director of Education, …
OpenStack Seattle – HPE Keynote – Containers and OpenStack
HPE’s Lisa-Marie Namphy discusses the impact of Container technology on OpenStack with our CTO, Robert Starmer, during the 2016 OpenStack Days Seattle event. Lisa provided a prequel with her HPE Community blog post and generated a lot of community and customer input and questions that Lisa used to drive the …