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 …
Why cloud computing as a business model is moving from disruption to staus quo.
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 …
Containers – Part 3 – Container Benefits for the Enterprise
Enterprises are once again faced with a major shift in the application development technology landscape. And, once again, it appears that adopting this technology correctly is imperative for business success and growth. In the two previous installments in this series, we looked at two technologies that are at the core of the “new” …
Happy 6th Birthday OpenStack!
OpenStack was perhaps initially ‘conceived’ in the form of the Nasa Nebula project right down the road from us, at the NASA Ames Research Center, but was ‘born’ at the first Design Summit in Austin, TX- July 13-14, 2010. We attended last week’s birthday party hosted by the SF Bay OpenStack to …
Serverless Computing- Let’s clear up the Confusion about this new DevOps Term.
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 …
The Tricky Business of Moving Your Existing Software Applications to Containers
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 …
Operating Containers in Production
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 …
Containers and OpenStack – Friends or Foes?
Containers have certainly shaken up the world of Cloud computing. The IaaS cloud management software known as OpenStack was built at a time when the compute infrastructure of choice was the Virtual Machine (VM). What does the move from VM to containers have in store for OpenStack? Is it a …
Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, Presents Keynote at OpenStack Day Mexico City
One of the many OpenStack Day events sponsored regionally around the world, OpenStack Day in Mexico City was held on June 14. It was the third such event in Mexico and was sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation and Kio Networks. Our CTO, Robert Starmer, joined a diverse lineup of local …
Silicon Valley OpenStack Ops Meetup: Simplifying your OpenStack Deployments with layer 3 multi-tenancy
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 …