Containers are here to stay. According to the SolarWinds 2019 IT Trends Report, 41% of federal and public sector survey respondents ranked containers as a top technology priority over the next three to five years. The same survey showed 42% of the same respondents …
The marketing machines of today often paint new technologies to suggest they’re the best thing since sliced bread. Sometimes though, the new products are just a rehash of an existing technology. In this blog post, I’ll look at some of these. As some of …
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 …
Introduction OK, so the title is hardly original, apologies. But it does highlight the buzz for Kubernetes still out there not showing any signs of going away anytime soon. Let’s start with a description of what Kubernetes is: Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source …
There’s a revolution underway with application deployment, and you may or may not be aware of it. We’re seeing a move by businesses to adopt technology the large public cloud providers have been using for many years, and that trend is only going to …
It’s that time of year again—the time to reflect on the past year and anticipate the year ahead. For a number of years now, organizations of all sizes have been running containers in production. Now, with containers, microservices, and functions interweaving through modern application …
With containers, microservices, and FaaS becoming even more integrated into hybrid and cloud environments, you must remain diligent to make sure you’re navigating these aspects of the modern app development landscape successfully. We all know this can be daunting—it’s an ephemeral world out there, …
“You’re not the boss of me!” is something we expect to hear from petulant children, not our IT systems. And yet IT practitioners often find themselves in those same kinds of power struggles with their systems and platforms. In this episode of SolarWinds lab, …
In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek™ Kong Yang and Chris Paap, Product Manager of Virtualization Manager, show you how to master your virtualization universe with Virtualization Manager and three core skills – discovery, remediation, and optimization. Back to Video Archive Episode Transcript …
It’s the time of year when we look toward the future. Here’s an interesting article from my colleague, Joe Kim, where he provides a few predictions. Want a good idea of what’s coming next in federal IT? Look no further than the financial services …