Cloud

Have you realized that companies’ transformation towards Digitization ironically drive easier consumption models while technology behind it gets often more complicated? When I get a chance to sit on a table to discuss Digitization strategies, it is interesting how most of the times great ideas come…

In the past few years, we have seen a surge of advancement in cloud development. New platforms, developer tools, and cloud services have become available, and developers have responded by building innovative cloud-based applications, services, and businesses. In my opinion, we’ve only unleashed the…

Of course you don’t feel like dealing with modernizing your IT organization. Who would? It sounds like a hideous task—especially if you’ve let it go for a while. There’s so much to think about, and it seems like more technologies and more variations of those technologies pile on every day until the…

With the recent availability of Istio 1.0 it is not surprising that it continues to capture much attention from the technical press and developer community. As an open platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices, Istio promises to make it much easier to build and operate micro-service base…

Developers are always looking to embrace new technologies that can help them build the applications that drive innovation forward. This was evident at the Google Cloud Next ’18 conference, where more than 25,000 registrants came to learn more about the possibilities of cloud. I was there as a guest…

In a previous post we demonstrated how to automate the setup of a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment. Now we will demonstrate how to use it: a developer can create an application that will be compiled, then built and deployed into a test environment automatically using this C…

Some people may still think that Cisco competes with AWS. That is not the case. The reality is that Cisco can help customers with solutions that address challenges like connectivity, security, management and analytics when moving to AWS public cloud. In this post, I will make an analogy with millenn…

Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…

We are all indebted to the many network engineers who have performed their tasks faithfully through the years. They laid the foundation for the vast internet ecosystem that we enjoy today. And while we do not wish to replace them, it’s time to let the machines take over work that has become routine…