SDN challenges – “You can keep your networking gear. Period.”

You my recall a statement regarding some big U.S. legislation that led us to the forever quoted phrase: “You can keep your insurance. Period.” that has caused quite a ruckus in the insurance industry both for providers and customers because it was found to be untrue. So just imagine that a similar situation that is … Read more

Building the Case for OpenStack – Value at Every Level

There was a particularly exciting article on the OpenStack Superuser site this week (http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/how-to-introduce-openstack-in-your-organization) which highlights some interesting notes about OpenStack adoption. One of the challenges of OpenStack adoptions is the concept of selling the idea of adopting an open source platform where some enterprises are lacking in confidence on supporting and operating one. There … Read more

Why Kanban Makes me Better at Life

If you’ve been following along some of the #vDM30in30 content I’ve been doing lately, you’ll notice a trend towards some non-technical content. I know that over the years I’ve been known as the PowerShell person, then the VMware person, then the OpenStack person. The reason that I’ve been changing the focus along the way was … Read more

DevSecOps – Why Security is Coming to DevOps

With so many organizations making the move to embrace DevOps practices, we are quickly highlighting what many see as a missing piece to the puzzle: Security. As NV (Network Virtualization) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization) are rapidly growing in adoption, the ability to create programmable, repeatable security management into the development and deployment workflow has … Read more