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December Writing Challenge Week 3 Recap
We’re more than halfway through the challenge now, and I’m simply blown away by the quality of the responses. While I’ve excerpted a few for each day, you really need to walk through the comments to get a sense of the breadth and depth. You’ll probably hear me say it every week, but thank you to everyone who has taken time…
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December Writing Challenge Week 5 Recap and Challenge Wrap-Up
December Writing Challenge Week 5 Recap And with these last four words, the 2019 writing challenge comes to a close. I know I’ve said it a couple of times, but even so, I cannot express enough my gratitude and appreciation for everyone who took part in the challenge this year—from the folks who run the THWACK community, to…
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Foresight is 2020: My Predictions For the Coming Year
The year is winding down, and—while it’s not something I do every year—I thought I’d take a moment to look ahead and make a few educated guesses about what the coming months have in store for us nerds, geeks, techies, and web-heads (OK, the last category is for people from the Spider-verse, but I’m still keeping them in…
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Unplanned Obsolescence
As we head into the new year, people will once again start quoting a popular list describing the things kids starting college in 2020 will never personally experience. Examples of these are things like “They’re the first generation for whom a ‘phone’ has been primarily a video game, direction finder, electronic telegraph,…
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Head-to-Head: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager vs. VMware vCenter Operations Manager
At SolarWinds, we’ve always known that our Virtualization Manager solution is an excellent alternative to VMware vCenter Operations Manager. Last Friday, Scott D. Lowe published a competitive matrix for the virtualization management market that I think gives you a great picture of why we believe our virtualization…
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Battle of the Clouds: Where Do We Go From Here?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both -Robert Frost At this point in our “Battle of the Clouds” journey, we’ve seen what the landscape of the various clouds looks like, cut through some of the fog around cloud, and glimpsed what failing to plan can do to your cloud migration. So, where does…
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5 Ansible Playbook Steps to Success
There are many configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tools available, ranging from open-source tools to automation engines. Ansible is one such software stack available to cover all the bases, and seems to be gaining more traction by the day. In this post, we’ll look at how this simple but powerful tool…
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How AI is Transforming the Data Center
There have been so many changes in data center technology in the past 10 years, it’s hard to keep up at times. We’ve gone from a traditional server/storage/networking stack with individual components, to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) where it’s all in one box. The data center is more software-defined today than it…
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The Actuator - January 15th
In Austin this week for our annual meeting of Head Geeks. The first order of business is to decide what to call our group. I prefer a "gigabyte of Geeks," but I continue to be outvoted. Your suggestions are welcome. As always, here's a bunch of links from the internet I hope you find interesting. Enjoy! Facebook again…
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2020 Vision - What Does The Future Hold For DevOps?
2019 was busy year for DevOps as measured by the events held on the topic. Whether it be DevOps days around the globe, DockerCon, DevOps Enterprise Summits, KubeCon, or CloudNativeCon, events are springing up to support this growing community. With a huge number of events already scheduled for 2020, people plan on…
