Turning Grey Matter into RapidMatter

Today I spotted something on Twitter that caught my eye, and I clicked through the link because of a couple of reasons. First, I have done work with Rene Van Den Bedem (aka @VCDX133) though Virtual Design Master plus other community based activities, and secondly, because I love to geek out about Enterprise Architecture: Even … Read more

OpenStack by the Numbers: Welcome Kilo!

As April 30th arrived, so did the next named release of OpenStack. Kilo is the 11th official release of OpenStack since its inception in 2010. Born of the with great hopes and minds at Rackspace and NASA, the widely known open cloud ecosystem continues to gain steam, awareness, and sometimes a little bit of criticism. … Read more

What’s the Deal with OpenStack and Containers? (aka When Fads Won’t Go Away)

Let me start this off with a very true personal story, and it leads to why containers are becoming more important than a lot of people realize. DISCLAIMER:  This is a bit fun, but very real.  Hype is happening, but this little story should help you to see what I’m talking about and how to … Read more

Fire Photon Torpedoes! Getting Started with VMware Photon Linux

A new brand of containerization just launched with the release of Photon from VMware.  This new, open source linux derivative, is similar to the concept of CoreOS in being able to provide a thin linux base to provide a fast path to hosting containers. Both Docker and Rocket are supported in the base build, and … Read more