Watch Out! The Wallarm Revolution is Disrupting Cloud Native Application Security

I’ve long held that most of today’s cloud security solutions are woefully out of date, horribly static, and simply unsuited for the cloud age. That’s why when I learned about Wallarm, I decided to jump on board as an advisor (with the blessing of Juniper Networks). Wallarm is a promising...

*aaS Backwards: Services as a Platform

Semantics. You can’t get away from them. Any good argument worth having is full of nuance, articulated largely through differences in definitions. When there is no disagreement, like “alternative facts aren’t facts”, semantics don’t matter, because we all know it is just spin. Real discussion comes through exploring the nuance...

The Essential DevOps Process We're Ignoring: Continuous Response

Continuous response—or “CR”—is an overlooked link in the DevOps process chain. The two other major links—continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)—are well understood, but CR is not. Yet, CR is the essential element of follow through required to make customers happy and to fulfill the promise of greater speed...

Continuous Delusion at the Infrastructure Layer

In the DevOps mythos or worldview, continuous delivery (“CD”) is considered one of the holy mantras. Unfortunately, many take CD to an extreme that is unwarranted and not even reflected in how the DevOps originators (e.g. Amazon, Google) operate. This is one of those situations where folks are extrapolating and...

My Last Day at EMC

This is my last day at Dell EMC. It was a privilege and an honor to found and lead Cloudscaling, one of the leaders in OpenStack, which was acquired by EMC on October 14th, 2014, exactly two years ago. Coincidentally, this is also my birthday. While working at EMC I...

The History of Pets vs Cattle and How to Use the Analogy Properly

I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one thing or another has gotten in the way. It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, definition, and proper usage of the Pets vs Cattle meme so that everyone can understand why it was successful...

Cast Your Ballots for OpenStack Summit Barcelona by August 8th!

Ever wonder if EMC can bring the “wow”? We are this time at OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. I personally provided feedback and input into all of the EMC submissions this time around, helping increase the quality and the focus on solving problems and making OpenStack awesome instead of EMC products....

Unlocked: OpenStack + ScaleIO

For the past few months an elite team of Cloudscalers (EMCers) have been working diligently on making ScaleIO great in OpenStack-land. ScaleIO “supported” OpenStack, but it might take a fair bit of time and energy to get it setup. No longer. As of last Friday, both Mirantis OpenStack and Canonical...

CoprHD Now Supports Ceph

Last year, EMC announced the open sourcing of ViPR Controller, the world’s leading SDS controller as CoprHD (“copperhead”). Since then we have made tremendous progress, with multiple releases, and operating the project in the open. Recently we achieved another key milestone, the addition of support for RedHat’s Ceph project. CoprHD...

Will Containers Replace Hypervisors? Almost Certainly!

After OpenStack, the number one topic that I get asked about these days is containers and their prospects for the enterprise and cloud-native applications. The prospect of containers replacing hypervisors such as VMware ESX or Linux KVM (the default for most OpenStack deployments) is of keen interest to many. Yet,...