The Case for Containers: Why Docker is Coming on Strong

You can’t go too far without seeing the word Docker among technology circles these days. This product/concept/company is getting some significant airtime over the course of the last few months, and there is no sign of that slowing down. So, what exactly is the big deal around Docker? It’s all about the containers. Well, mostly … Read more

OpenStack Launches 10th Release with Juno

It was a big day for OpenStack as it marked the 10th full release in just 4 short years. Juno, the newly minted full release, was chalk full of exciting new features, updates, and bug fixes. Here’s a little preview of what’s new, and I’m really excited to play around more with the “big data” options … Read more

Suspend and Resume Vagrant Boxes in Bulk in OSX and Linux

As a regular user of Vagrant in conjunction with VirtualBox for building and deploying lab environments, I often have situations where I have multiple virtual instances running at a time. The challenge with that is that sometimes my multi-node labs are having to be suspended and resumed to save on resources. It’s not difficult, but … Read more

VMworld 2014 – The EVO-lution of Marvin, and Hyperconvergence for VMware

VMware has opened the doors on a new hyperconverged platform this morning in their HCIA (Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance) now unveiled as EVO:RAIL. Long known for their strength in data center virtualization with VMware vSphere, VMware has begun to step into the hardware world in a big way with this announcement. 2U of HTML Managed SDDC Goodness … Read more