Tag: Provisioning

10 Ways to Optimize Your Cloud
Cloud optimization involves ensuring that you're not overprovisioning–or underprovisioning–your resources and using the right services for the right tasks ...

HashiCorp Adds Business Tier to Managed Terraform Service
HashiCorp today announced it has added a Business tier to the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud that expands the managed service in a way that provides advanced security, compliance and governance capabilities along with ...

Kemp Adds Predictive Analytics to ADC to Advance DevOps
Kemp this week enhanced the automation and predictive analytics capabilities it makes available within its application developer controller (ADC) as part of an effort to ease deployment of applications across multi-cloud computing ...

6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 2
In Part One of my article on big, bad mistakes in configuration management, I reviewed the dangers of using the wrong tools for the configuration management job. Provisioning management tools, application release ...

6 Big, Bad Mistakes in Configuration Management, Part 1
Configuration problems come in many flavors. Some are mere nuisances. Often though, configuration errors can lead to more serious mishaps like application performance problems, policy compliance violations or even security vulnerabilities. They ...

The One Simple Reason to Consider Clustering
As you may know, I’m pretty interested in the newest round of clustered computing these days. I’m digging in pretty deep to see how well-suited it is to the enterprise, and how ...

FLAP, Part 3: Full Data Center Provisioning
In the first two parts of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we covered server provisioning and application provisioning. Knowing a bit about each of these tools is useful (although one blog ...

FLAP, Part 1: Server Provisioning
We have reached the state where end-to-end data center provisioning is a reality. It’s early yet, so there is a certain amount of work involved, but today a DevOps team essentially can ...