ITOps vs. DevOps: where does one end and the other begin? These two terms are commonly confused even within the IT industry, which is understandable since neither is set in stone and they often overlap, especially when talking about infrastructure. What does each role encompass and how can you tell the difference between them?

When Futurum Research asked IT executives to evaluate data center initiatives and storage strategies in terms of their promise for the future, over half cited converged and hyperconverged infrastructure as bearing the most potential. We’ve observed this trend in our own interactions with customers undergoing digital transformation as well, driving us to devote significant resources toward ensuring our users are fully covered as they roll out hyperconverged technologies in their data centers.

Aligning business objectives and running complex hybrid IT environments have always required a balancing act for IT leaders. Over the past few years, digital transformation has become more of an essential IT strategy than a buzzword. A spotlight on digitization and seamless customer experience is driving CIOs to innovate and build integrated solutions. Business-driven digital transformation enables CIOs to rethink their approaches toward managing modern IT infrastructure.

There are a few, simple things in life I really, truly enjoy: a full breath of air, watching my kids learn and grow, and playing the piano immediately come to mind. I was reminded of another one after spending an hour with CameronB from DevOpsChat — full understanding of a complex problem. For me, it’s not finding a fix that works, I have to continue until I understand the underlying issues, but then it’s bliss.

Updating information held on container volumes, debugging a running instance, backing up files locally, or just making sure everything is where you expect it to be… remote access is an integral part of any system.

XDP or Express Data Path arises due to the pressing need for high-performance packet processing in the Linux kernel. Several kernel bypass techniques (DPDK being the most prominent one) aim to accelerate network operations by moving packet processing to user space.

Kafka is an open source real-time streaming messaging system and protocol built around the publish-subscribe system. In this system, producers publish data to feeds for which consumers are subscribed to. With Kafka, clients within a system can exchange information with higher performance and lower risk of serious failure. Instead of establishing direct connections between subsystems, clients communicate via a server which brokers the information between producers and consumers.

Creating a topic in production is an operative task that requires awareness and preparation. In this tutorial, we’ll explain all the parameters to consider when creating a new topic in production. Setting the partition count and replication factor is required when creating a new Topic and the following choices affect the performance and reliability of your system.

It’s the night before a big deadline, and just before you press the button to deploy, you notice a small but important bug! You open a terminal, type in the command to run the code—and all you see is a page of errors. It’s these palm-sweating moments that make us wonder whether we made the correct career decision. Configuring our systems and keeping them working is a struggle most of us deal with regularly. Ruby Version Manager (RVM) attempts to solve this problem.

Today we are happy to announce StackStorm v3.0.1. This is a first bug fix patch / patch release in the v3.0.x release series. It includes the following bug fixes and improvements...