Dell Technologies updated its edge computing platform to make it simpler to programmatically provision infrastructure using DevOps best practices.
Akamai Launches Gecko Edge Computing Services
Akamai’s Gecko initiative promises to make it simpler to centrally manage and deploy application workloads on edge computing platforms.
5 Best Practices for Using VMs on Azure Cloud
When beginning a cloud improvement/optimization project, an easy place to start is to focus on the initial low-hanging fruit of your virtual machine (VM) environments. This article takes a closer look at these steps, using a Microsoft Azure VM environment as an example. Here are five best practices that can be easily achieved when using […]
Broadcom Acquires VMware to Expand Software Portfolio
Broadcom today pulled the trigger on an acquisition of VMware for $61 billion in cash and stock that could dramatically expand its software portfolio. Tom Krause, president of the Broadcom Software Group, told investors that the Broadcom infrastructure software group will become part of VMware once the deal closes. The deal, however, includes a 40-day […]
HashiCorp Updates Terraform Tool for Azure Cloud
HashiCorp today announced it has updated the instance of Terraform it created to automate the configuration of virtual machines on the Microsoft Azure cloud to give IT teams more granular control. Version 2.0. of Terraform (TF) AzureRM Provider will allow IT teams to separately configure virtual machines by type for instance of both Windows and […]
VMware to Acquire Avi Networks for NetOps Capability
VMware announced it intends to acquire Avi Networks for an undisclosed price as part of an ongoing effort to close the gap between network operations (NetOps) and DevOps. Once this deal closes, sometime between now and August, VMware plans to add a software-based load balancer, along with a web application firewall (WAF) and a service […]
Pivotal Software Previews Automation Framework
At the North America Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 conference, Pivotal Software announced it is beta testing an automation framework that promises to keep its distribution of the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment continuously updated. In addition, Pivotal revealed it will be adding support for open source technologies including Envoy load balancing and Istio service mesh software developed […]
Why Unikernels Are Great for DevOps
DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s. This, of course, prompted […]
How DevOps Optimizes Use of Resources
How is DevOps changing the way we compute? One big DevOps innovation is helping developers and admins consume exactly what resources they need to deploy an app—nothing more and nothing less. Traditionally, using (and paying for) only what you need has been tough in all parts of life. If I want to park my car […]