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Virtualization vs Cloud Computing: What's the Difference?

What’s the difference between virtualization vs cloud computing? The server virtualization market is growing, driven by the need to modernize procurement procedures and manage compliance policies. Fortune Business Insights states that in 2023, 66% of businesses reported increased agility due to virtualization implementation. They also found that companies with over 100 computers have already adopted virtualization, and smaller industries with fewer than 100 workstations are quickly following suit.

Building On-call: Continually testing with smoke tests

With the release of On-call, our system’s reliability had to be solid from the outset. Our customers have high expectations of a paging product—and internally, we would not be comfortable with releasing something that we weren’t sure would perform under pressure. While our earlier product, Response, was the core of a customer’s incident response process after an incident was detected, we’re now the first notification an engineer gets when something’s wrong.

Build and test a LlamaIndex RAG application

LlamaIndex is a framework for building context-augmented large language model (LLM) applications. It enables you to augment the model with domain-specific data to customize it and improve its responses to your use case. You can use this framework to build a question-answering chat bot, a document understanding and extraction application, or an autonomous agent. The framework provides tools to ingest data, process it, and implement query workflows that combine data access with LLM prompts.

What is the telco core network?

The telecommunications industry relies heavily on their core network, which is essential for enabling communication and data transfer. As technology advances and data demand increases, these core networks pose significant challenges. Telcos may face immense difficulties in ensuring fast data transfer, maintaining network reliability, and securing communications. At the same time, the transition to technologies like 5G adds to these challenges, requiring substantial infrastructure changes.

Why OpenStack is the Best Solution for Your Cloud Strategy | Open Source Cloud Computing

Operating in the cloud has become the norm in today's business world. However, depending solely on public clouds can introduce several challenges such as increased costs, privacy issues, and performance limitations. Enter OpenStack, the world's leading open-source cloud platform. OpenStack empowers you to create your own cloud infrastructure, giving you control over your digital future.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 5: AI on private cloud in the hyperscalers era

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 5: AI on private cloud - why is it relevant in the hyperscalers era? This will cover: Why consider a private cloud for AI? Key considerations when building a private cloud for AI projects Performance acceleration options for private cloud Guidance for Kubernetes on OpenStack for AI initiatives.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source This will cover: Scenarios in which open source tooling on public cloud solves a problem for AI initiatives Main benefits of using open source tooling on the public cloud for AI projects Use cases from our customers Hybrid cloud and multi cloud opportunities for AI projects.

Dogfooding at Mezmo: How we used telemetry pipeline to reduce data volume

Like many other organizations, we at Mezmo struggle with a lot of telemetry data, and for a while our team configured our logs to be sent to a global Mezmo Log Analysis account in our SaaS so we would have a single pane of glass to view all of our logs. Our SRE team wanted to make sure that we have experience utilizing our new pipeline product. We set out some goals before we started using telemetry pipeline.

Rancher Live: openEuler x Uyuni

Uyuni is a fully open source configuration and infrastructure management tool for Linux that helps you easily manage and update server estates. It is also the upstream project from which SUSE Manager (SUMA) is derived. Earlier this year, the project introduced support for openEuler, the popular open-source Linux distribution platform. Join us on this Rancher Live episode with Zhenyu Zheng, community operations manager and maintainer of several special interest groups within the openEuler project, to learn more about the project & its collaboration with Uyuni.

The 6 Best GitOps Tools for Developers

GitOps is a game-changer for managing infrastructure and deployments using Git as the single source of truth. It makes DevOps processes more efficient, reliable, and traceable. For developers and organizations, GitOps not only speeds up development but also improves security and compliance. Today, I’ll break down what GitOps is, why it’s important, and review some top GitOps tools to help you on your journey.