SaaS as an Enterprise Software Development Tool?

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the Cloud Computing service model most are familiar with, but exactly what SaaS means is changing. SaaS is moving beyond the role of Storage, Office, Productivity, Messaging, etc. for enterprise users. We are starting to see some SaaS applications approaching PaaS-like functionality, where machine-to-machine, machine-to-human, and human-to-machine …

The OpenStack Kolla Project - Deploy OpenStack in Docker Containers

How Docker Containers help with OpenStack – OpenStack in Containers – Kolla

One of the questions that often comes up is if you should use OpenStack to run Linux Containers, or if you should use Containers to run OpenStack. I think both are valid and interesting options, and to that end, I’ve been working with the OpenStack Kolla Project to get a …

Let’s figure out what a Computer in the Cloud actually is.

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 …

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 …

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 …