Cloud Technology Partners | Rob Hirschfeld

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Items of the Week

Digital Rebar

Digital Rebar Online Community Meetup #3

Meetup Content:

Digital Rebar Provision 3.2 Update
Feature Tags
Endpoint + UX
Demo w/ Virtual Box
Community Roundtable

Stay in Touch with the Community:

Digital Rebar: http://rebar.digital/
Documentation for Digital Rebar: http://provision.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#
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RackN

This week’s Podcast with David Linthicum, SVP Cloud Technology Partners on a variety of cloud related topics including DevOps, Containers, Edge Computing, etc.

For those interested in Podcasts but prefer to listen via YouTube, we have a new Playlist of all the Podcasts available.

Rishidot Research recently published a profile of the new RackN Beta program, Briefing Notes: RackN Launches in Beta. This document contains a Market Overview, RackN Offering, SWOT Analysis, and Conclusions.

Rishidot provided several key messages in their briefing notes that are worth highlighting:

Bare Metal as a Service– offers a better fit for running containers in the enterprise without the overhead of virtualization.
Simplification and Choice– by decoupling provisioning, management, and orchestration into distinct layers, RackN allows customers flexibility in choosing orchestration tools already in use
Data Center vs Cloud – RackN automation to underlying infrastructure makes datacenter provisioning competitive in a cloud world

Read the Complete Briefing Notes

Disclosure: RackN has hired Rishidot in the past.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus are preparing for a series of upcoming events where they are speaking or just attending. If you are interested in meeting with them at these events please email info@rackn.com

DevOps Summit – Oct 31 – Nov 2: Rob Hirschfeld Talk
OpenStack Summit Sydney – Nov 8: Rob Hirschfeld & Ihor Dvoretskyi “Building Kubernetes-based highly-customizable environments on OpenStack w/ Kubespray“
CloudNativeCon + KubeCon – Dec 8 : Zero Configuration Pattern of Kubernetes on Bare Metal

If you are attending any of these events please reach out to Rob Hirschfeld to setup time to learn more about our solutions or discuss the latest industry trends.

OTHER NEWSLETTERS

SRE Weekly (@SREWeekly)– Issue #94
DevOps, SRE, & Operations – LINK
The DevOps/WebOps Marketing Geek – LINK from @LukasHertig
Julie Evans Blog – LINK

Rob Hirschfeld, CEO/Co-Founder of RackN speaks with David Linthicum, an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert and Sr VP at Cloud Technology Partners. Rob and David cover a variety of IT topics in this podcast including a Buck Rodgers quote from David.

TOPIC TIME

Introduction & Ask Podcaster                     0:00 – 3:20
Lack of Skillsets in IT 3:20 – 5:43
Accumulation of Technical Debt                5:43 – 10:57
DevOps and Automation                              10:57 – 14:08
CI and CD 14:08 – 15:48
When Not Go CI and CD 15:48 – 18:00
What to pay attention to in cloud? 18:00 – 20:17
How select right cloud tech?                       20:17 – 23:49
Hybrid is best of breed tech                        23:49 – 25:39
Are Containers the silver bullet? 25:39 – 29:14
Serverless vs Containers 29:14 – 33:16
Kubernetes – Meso – Docker Opinion 33:16 – 36:04
Predictions and Trends 36:04 – 37:10
Edge Computing 37:10 – 38:25
Wrap Up – where to find David L.             38:25 – END

Podcast Guest – David Linthicum @DavidLinthicum

Dave Linthicum is Sr. VP at Cloud Technology Partners, and an internationally known cloud computing and SOA expert. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and blogger. In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. In addition, he is the Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON’s Virtualization Journal.

For the last 10 years, he has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. His industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software and cloud computing companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities, including University of Virginia and Arizona State University. He keynotes at many leading technology conferences, and has several well-read columns and blogs. Linthicum has authored 10 books, including the ground-breaking “Enterprise Application Integration” and “B2B Application Integration.” You can reach him at david@bluemountainlabs.com. Or follow him on Twitter. Or view his profile on LinkedIn.