Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “cloud computing”
Let’s face it. Unless you know about the US NIST Model, cloud computing is not only hard to define, its hard to understand. We’ve heard “The Cloud” described as ‘just a buzzword,’ the answer to all things IT, or ‘just someone else’s computer,’ all of which are wrong. In this …
The days of OpenStack being hard to install are over (mostly), and what has become the new challenge is keeping an OpenStack system healthy, running and up to date. In this episode of Five Minutes of Cloud, Kumulus Technologies’ CTO and founder, Robert Starmer discusses some of the concerns and …
The latest buzzword in the world of application development, DevOps and Cloud is now “serverless” computing. Is this really computing without servers? What does it mean really? In this episode, Kumulus Tech CTO, Robert Starmer quickly clears the fog around this term and then dives into what it means both …
If you are working with cloud computing or software development, you’ve at least heard of software containers. The combination of microservices and containers is radically changing how applications are built and deployed to the cloud. In this video, CTO Robert Starmer discusses some of the things to consider when moving …
Containers are technology that have taken the world of cloud computing by storm and have radically changed how application developers and cloud operators are doing business. However, containers are not all created equally and some of the more modern formats have been easy and exciting to run on your laptop …
We had the pleasure of helping the Romana Project implement the Neutron IPAM API integration. At this meetup, our CTO, Robert Starmer will join the Romana Project‘s Chris Marino in a talk and demo of the IPAM integration provides network multi-tenancy without an overlay and using only routed layer 3 …
Linux Containers – Docker, LXC, rkt and the like – are the current darling of much of the application development and virtualization world. Seemingly the cure to everything that ailed bloated virtual machines and accelerating (and adored by) the microservices development community, Containers have very real benefits compared to virtual …
The role of IT for business is continuing to change due to the impact of Cloud computing. Though many manual IT tasks have been automated, there is still a management task that is required to support today’s modern Cloud infrastructure. This new role is taken on by cloud operators (the …
If you are developing apps on a traditional physical system or a virtual managed “Cloud-like” system (think VMware and the like), you are missing out on key benefits that are available in a cloud-based development environment. Wether you deal with a “touch the infrastructure” based IaaS system or a more …
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 …
