Docker is all the rage these days, or at least some serious conversations around the potential use-cases. In the same way that we saw virtualization become a core part of nearly every data center, the application environment is about to go through an evolution. PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offerings are becoming much more commonly used such as … Read more
I’m very proud to announce that I’ve been included in the Cisco Champion community for the second time now in 2015! This is a great community to be a part of and through my experiences in 2014 with the program, I was able to get great access to resources and people who helped to bring … Read more
Everyone is looking to the cloud for solutions to many problems. This could be for centralizing applications and data, ensuring availability regardless of location, enabling scale-out application infrastructure, or many other reasons. One of the reasons is to use the cloud as a BCP/DR (Business Continuity Planning/Disaster Recovery) target, which is also a great use-case … Read more
One of the challenges with using Vagrant and VirtualBox for my labs is that I run download processes over and over again. This is good for testing, but not very good for time and bandwidth usage. When we have really aggressive downloading needs like apt repository files and such, there is something that can really … Read more