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 …
OpenStack – After the Install – Monitor, Manage, Upgrade
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 Linux Container – Part 1- Rise of the Containers
It’s new, it’s hot, it’s shiny, it’s a container! Linux containers solve all of your application and infrastructure problems after all, so there’s no doubt that you want to build a container solution to solve all your company’s IT problems. Well… actually…, it’s never that simple, and in fact for …
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 …
The answer – #OpsDev
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 …
Understanding the Business Value of Cloud Services: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
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 …
Answering the question, “What is Cloud?” can be hard. This will help.
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 …
What you Must know about the Storage Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
Storage is one of the three key resources in any cloud. However there are considerations – do you need persistent storage? Is Block storage the right choice? How about Object storage? In this final of four episodes on enabling an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud services, Robert Starmer, CTO of Kumulus Technologies, …
What you Must know about Network Service Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Network Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …
What you Must know about Compute Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud
The Compute Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …