Project Pacific is an engineering project to natively embed Kubernetes into vSphere. Pacific is a deep, deep integration of the two technologies, embedding Kubernetes into ESXi to make containers first-class citizens in vSphere. The project gives developers a well-known way to deploy and operate their applications, including creating entire Kubernetes clusters and vSphere resources like virtual machines via the Kubernetes APIs, while operators can continue to leverage the power of vSphere to operate the underlying …
Sysdig solves the instrumentation problem using eBPF
Sysdig unlocks forensics and anomaly detection by using age-old Wireshark wisdom translated into eBPF to monitor and trace modern, cloud-native, applications.
How Datrium ControlShift uses VMware Cloud on AWS for cloud-native Disaster Recovery
Previously, I talked about how to set up ControlShift in the cloud. In this post, I’ll dive into the ControlShift cloud-native disaster recovery solution, and how it leverages VMware Cloud on AWS to do on-demand disaster recovery. While this post is about recovery to VMware Cloud on AWS, Datrium has announced that it will offer Automatrix and ControlShift to Microsoft Azure in 2020, following Microsoft’s announcement to support running the VMware stack (including VMware vSphere, …
How Datrium deploys ControlShift into the cloud
Datrium’s ControlShift is a born-in-the-cloud DR solution that can be consumed as SaaS or from your own AWS account. In this post, I’ll show you how ControlShift is deployed.
LightStep: application performance management for the new stack
So LightStep are different. They have a fresh take on the APM-field and focus on issues real-world customers have when moving from monoliths to a microservices architecture. This makes them uniquely positioned to help a growing number of customers that start on their journey towards microservices and the cloud.
SoftNAS helps solve legacy app and data inertia
SoftNAS is a classic NAS company with a twist. They use old-school technology, like ZFS and classic file-based protocols to solve data inertia problems while moving to the cloud. And sure, I get it. There’s a lot one could say about SoftNAS: they’re a legacy technology company trying to catch up. They are not cloud-native. It could even be argued that SoftNAS sees the cloud as yet another datacenter. They’re certainly not DevOps. The hipster developers …
Zerto gets into the long-term game at #vRetreat
I had forgotten about Zerto for a while. I’ve always like their innovative edge in DR back in the day, but DR became so commodity that the whole field lost their edge a little. Today I was refreshed on the topic at #vRetreat, a independent community blogger event organized by Patrick Redknap. IT Ops is struggling As I’ve recently transitioned to the customer side of IT, I look at things a little differently. Specifically, I …
@jpiscaer will speak at Spiceworks All Access Amsterdam
I’ll be speaking at SpiceWorks’ All Access conference in Amsterdam on June 28th! About SpiceWorks and All Access SpiceWorks is a big online community for IT Pros and provides technical forums for advice, learning, product reviews and tools for inventory, monitor and troubleshooting. All Access is a single day unconference with community speakers, technical content and lots of networking over a pint. If you want to attend, you can register here. Check the entire agenda. About …
Accelerite salvages good tech from bad execution: A CloudPlatform story
The title says it all, right? This week, as part of Cloud Field Day 2, I visited Accelerite. Accelerite is a wholly owned business of Persistent Systems, and they do a bunch of stuff. It’s hard to pinpoint what their core product is, nor do the products align or integrate tightly. In other words, it’s a portfolio company. One with an interesting strategy, though. More on that a little later. But first, let’s see what …
Selectively route traffic over ProtonVPN
I’ve started using ProtonVPN on my home Internet connection. With the ever increasing pressure on ISPs to share customer information to government agencies and copyright trolls, I felt more and more uncomfortable having this metadata accessible, and I figured it was now time to go the VPN route to at least shield my metadata from the ISP. I didn’t do this to obscure browsing metadata from websites or hide which country I’m in, though. I’m …