Kurt Milne

This year’s VMworld conference at Las Vegas was a successful one for Cisco as we focused on new technologies that have enabled business processes and innovation. Key among our showcased portfolio was Cisco CloudCenter, our multicloud management platform. Here is a transcript of theCube interview wit…

If you are an IT Ops professional responsible for running cloud-native applications built with containerized application services, then you should consider boosting your skills to be ready for changes likely coming your way. Cloud-native refers to an application architecture, not a workload deployme…

There is a learning curve associated with scheduling containers in production on Kubernetes. But if your cloud architect or platform engineering team can integrate and configure the set of tools needed for deploying and managing containerized workloads, then Developers, Application Ops, and Cluster…

The Cisco team is focused on continuing to deliver multicloud solutions to customers, which is why we are proud to announce the release of CloudCenter 4.9. This release comes with several key updates including, but not limited to, native support for Kubernetes and Azure Stack, as well as new feature…

Kubernetes is a production-grade container orchestration solution that automates management of cloud-native applications. Features that make Kubernetes production-grade include automated rollout and rollback, auto-scaling, and self-healing of containerized applications (among other things). It is ea…

We’ve come a long way as an industry in last 10 years.  As I travel to #KubeCon in Austin, I’m reflecting back on what has changed. 10 years ago, I ran an independent research group called the IT Process Institute, and was lead researcher on a study designed to identify change, config, release best…

How many times have you wondered: Should I automate this task? What about the end-to-end process? How many times do I need to use the automation to justify the work needed to set it up and maintain it? As an engineer myself, I have asked these question many times. Can I write a script to do repeti…

Believe it or not, there are some interesting books about IT governance and controls. Before you doze off, let me oversimplify. IT Governance is all about having a system that determines who gets to make decisions. IT Controls provide a framework to make sure things are done a certain way. This is i…

Many hyperconverged buyers have infrastructure responsibility in their data center. And if you are an infrastructure manager, Cisco HyperFlex make your job easier by combining hardware and software into a pre-integrated solution that scales out network, storage, and compute resources in the data cen…