digital transformation Navigating Digital Transformation Challenges with the Platforming Approach: A Guide for Leaders. Discover how the platforming approach can help your organization overcome common challenges in digital transformation and achieve optimal outcomes. This approach involves treating platforms as products and prioritizing capabilities over roles.
ansible How to drive out complexity, lower costs, and increase security in the Modern Enterprise with an Automation Strategy. How an Enterprise-wide Automation strategy is the key to driving out complexity, lowering costs, and increasing security in Organizations digitally transforming.
cloud strategy Embracing Open Transformation A few thoughts on Open Transformation and why organizations should embrace it.
openstack An introduction to Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities in OpenStack A quick introduction to Enhanced Platform Awareness capabilities in OpenStack: NUMA, CPU Pinning, and Huge Pages.
strategy Beyond technology: the process of Digital Transformation Beyond technology: the process of Digital Transformation
openstack High Performance Computing (HPC) on OpenStack: a few recommendations. Blog post with considerations for HPC workloads on OpenStack.
ansible Ansible and Ansible Tower: best practices from the field One of my favorite open source projects in the last couple years is Ansible. In this article, I want to share some recommendations based on the first-hand experience in the field.
open cloud What technologies to follow and learn in 2018! What technologies to follow and learn in 2018. A few tech predictions for 2018 by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino.
openstack Bringing Worlds Together: Designing and Deploying Kubernetes on an OpenStack multi-site environment At OpenStack Summit Sydney, fellow Red Hatter Roger Lopez and I presented on designing and deploying kubernetes on an OpenStack multi-site environment. Here is the abstract and video of the
openstack OpenStack: The Perfect Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) for a Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) I had the honor to present at OpenStack Summit Sydney. One of my presentations was with my co-worker Rimma Iontel. Here is the abstract and the video recording of the
cloud Building an Open Cloud Strategy “Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.” --J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret For several years now,
openstack Don't Fail at Scale- How to Plan for, Build, and Operate a Successful OpenStack Cloud - Video - OpenStack Summit2017 Here is the presentation that I delivered with fellow Red Hatter Dave Costakos at OpenStack Summit Boston 2017. Here the abstract: "OpenStack is a unique set of cross-functional, fast-moving technologies that challenge the status quo in any IT organization. It has been easy
openstack Best practices for successfully deploying NFV -Video - Red Hat Summit 2017 Here is a presentation that we (Rimma Iontel) and me delivered at Red Hat Summit 2017. The topic of the presentation is "Best practices for successfully deploying NFV". Enjoy!
ghost Updating the Ghost blog platform in couple simple steps Hello All, This blog is running on Ghost. Here is a simple way to update the Ghost blogging platform to the latest version. Stop the service running Ghost, in my
openstack What is new in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 First things first, I do work for Red Hat! Now with that out of the way let’s jump into today’s blog topic: What is new in Red Hat
openstack A quick introduction to OpenStack Heat. An important component of a cloud environment is orchestration. In OpenStack, there is a program dedicated exclusively to Orchestration within the platform and the main project in this program is
rhel High Availability and Pacemaker 101! In this blog post, we will talk a little bit about High Availability and a little bit more about Pacemaker. Here are some of the topics of this post: Introduction
openstack Selecting the right storage backend for your OpenStack cloud. Embracing OpenStack or any other Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) platform should not be the only decision to take on the road to building your private cloud. Selecting the right cloud components like
openstack Architecting your first OpenStack cloud. OpenStack is the most popular open-source cloud computing platform to build and manage infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments. Since its inception in 2010 by Rackspace Hosting and NASA this project has gained
fedora 24 10 things to do after installing Fedora 24. In this post, I will cover the top 10 things to do after a fresh install of Fedora 24. In my case I use a Fedora workstation spin (Fedora 24 Cinnamon) and here are the things that I do after a fresh install: 1.
fedora Upgrading to Fedora 24. In today post I will show you how to upgrade to Fedora 24 from Fedora 23. The first thing that we are going to check the current version of Fedora
csf Installing and configuring CSF on CentOS 7. I have been using CSF (ConfigServer Security and Firewall) in my Linux systems for a while now with great results. CSF is more than a Firewall software, it is also
linux Fedora 24 released! Fedora 24 was released on June 20, 2016. To download the different editions of Fedora 24, please visit the Fedora Project site. For the Workstation, Cloud, and Server editions: Fedora
openstack Ansible role to deploy and configure Rally. I put together an Ansible role to deploy and configure OpenStack Rally. I used the upstream rally bits for this and could be built on Fedora or CentOS/RHEL machines.