Posts Tagged ‘ Puppet ’

IT as a Service: Not Just for a Cloud

March 7, 2013
By
DataCenterVirtualization

I was going to write about how building a cloud is similar to moving, but the more I think about it, the more I think people are confusing an automated virtual environment with a cloud: IT as a Service is not just about cloud. Having automation does not imply your virtual environment is a cloud…

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Security Automation = Good Security Practice

January 24, 2013
By
VirtualizationSecurity

As I shoveled even more snow, I was starting to think about automation, as in how could I get something to shovel the snow for me, which lead to thinking about automation within the cloud. I see lots of discussion about automation in the cloud. Many of my friends and colleagues are developing code using…

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Infrastructure as Code: From Bottleneck to Test-Driven

January 16, 2013
By
agilecloud

Treating infrastructure as code and managing it using proven agile development practices leads to greater business agility

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Is the Software Defined Data Center the Future?

August 1, 2012
By
ITasaService

VMware purchased Nicira, backed the Openflow Community, and is now touting software defined data centers (SDDC). But what is a software defined datacenter? Is it just virtualization or cloud with a software defined network? Or is it something more than that? Given heavy automation and scripting of most clouds, do we not already have SDDC?…

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