ObjectRocket is a Database-as-a-Service company that was recently acquired by Rackspace. According to its website, “[ObjectRocket was founded] to tackle a serious deficiency in cloud infrastructure – the database.” ObjectRocket uses MongoDB as its core data store; this is apparently to aid developers. To read more click here.
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I’ll run through the initial install. The download is free. To read more click here.
had the pleasure of attending Cisco Live in Orlando, FL for the first time this year. Cisco Live is Cisco’s large annual conference for customers and partners to attend technology sessions, network with other technologists, and listen to keynote speakers about the direction of the company. Here’s a brief summary of what I learned and participated in…
You might be considering whether to purchase Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) gear but want to test it out first. Or, perhaps you have UCS, but you’d like to test some things out with the UCS Manager (UCSM) that you don’t want to mess with in production. If so, the Cisco UCS emulator might be the thing for you.…
In this post I continue with my series of using the Puppet Learning VM to help administrators with their automation tasks. (Read my two previous posts about the Puppet Learning VM: part one and part two.) In part two I went through setting up a second Puppet VM so you can take advantage of the Master/Agent workflow that PuppetLabs recommends. In…
Puppet Enterprise is automation software for IT system admins and consultants. A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog using Part One of the Puppet Labs Learning VM tutorial. In the first part of the tutorial, we used only one Puppet VM. This was basically for learning purposes, as Puppet generally works in a master/agent configuration with…
Puppet Enterprise is automation software for IT system admins and consultants. It allows you to automate repetitive tasks such as the installation of applications and services, patch management, and deployments. It seems the sky is the limit, and the available pre-configured modules make it even easier to create these automation programs (or manifests, as they call them) quickly.…
I had the pleasure of attending Storage Field Day 3 in April. We saw many company presentations, including one from Exablox, and one from PernixData that I’m really excited to share with TechRepublic readers. To read more click here.
This week I had the pleasure of being one of 14 delegates at Storage Field Day 3, which is part of the Tech Field Day series. At these events that happen several times a year, vendors come and give two-hour presentations to the delegates. The vendors are usually announcing a new version of something or just telling you…
It’s my opinion that every person who works with VMware should have a test lab. Although it would be ideal to have the same hardware as your production lab and completely duplicate the setup, that’s often not feasible. There are also things that come along with a test lab that make them annoying, for lack of a better…