It is interesting to consider DevOps from the storage perspective. DevOps in general—and specifically newer development and deployment models—tried to pretend that long-term storage was not a necessary component of software delivery. In short, it appears that because there wasn’t a good answer to long-term state in stateless development models, the storage and databases that […]
The Forces Massing Against the Data Center
We’ve come a long way over the last few decades. A ton of stuff about IT has changed, even in the last five years. And it is true in IT that the only constant is change. We like to have control of our environment to provide the most stable platform for user satisfaction that we […]
Containers: All Your Base are Belong to Us
The world is still changing. No surprise there, but the direction and velocity have been modified by the growth of container usage. Back in 2015, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud showcased a survey we performed that said container usage was staged to take off. That it did, with a vengeance. No matter the category—pilot programs, test, production—it […]
Persistent Storage: You’ll be Hearing More
As containers take over the IT environment, a problem that has existed since virtual machines (VMs) became popular has become more urgent: how to keep persistent storage, and keep it consistent. Just as a business designed for foot traffic of 50 to 100 people per hour does not work well when it sees 500 to […]