Welcome to the RackN and Digital Rebar Weekly Review. You will find the latest news related to Edge, DevOps, SRE and other relevant topics.

DC2020: Putting the Data Back in the Data Center

For the past two decades, data centers have been more about compute than data, but the machine learning and IoT revolutions are changing that focus for the 2020 Data Center (aka DC2020). My experience at IBM Think 2018 suggests that we should be challenging our compute centric view of a data center; instead, we should be considering the flow and processing of data. Since data is not localized, that reinforces our concept of DC2020 as a distributed and integrated environment.

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As an industry, we are rethinking management automation from declarative (“start this”) to intent (“maintain this”) focused systems.  This is the simplest way to express the difference between OpenStack and Kubernetes. That change is required to create autonomous infrastructure designs; however, it also means that we need to change our thinking about infrastructure as something that follows data instead of leads it.

Read Post and Full DC2020 Blog Series

News

• Open Source
  • Open source: sharing patents to speed up innovation: Raconteur
  • Mitigating Open Source Security Vulnerabilities: BankInfo Security
• Edge Computing
  • Everything you need to know about edge computing: Information Age
  • Where’s the ‘edge’ in edge computing? Why it matters, and how we use it: ZDNet
• DevOps / SRE
  • Why DevOps? The simple answer is it creates safer processes: DevOps Agenda
  • What Are the Right Metrics for DevOps?: IT Business Edge

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