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Second- Generation DCIM

DCIM software is a new class of software that gives data center operators the ability to run efficient data center operations and improve data center infrastructure planning and design. It typically replaces Excel, Visio, and home grown databases. DCIM software can bridge information across organizational domains – Data Center Ops, Facilities, and IT to maximize utilization of the data center.

StackState's Health Forecasting

Forecasting health is vital in today's society. Who has the highest risk of getting a virus? Are you able to predict when this will happen? Knowing answers to these questions could save many lives. Forecasting the health of IT infrastructures is equally essential. Think of identifying databases that are about to stop serving requests in a timely matter, hard drives that are about to run out of space, or Service-level agreements (SLA's) that are about to cross the set thresholds.

Getting Started with Longhorn Distributed Block Storage and Cloud-Native Distributed SQL

Longhorn is cloud-native distributed block storage for Kubernetes that is easy to deploy and upgrade, 100 percent open source and persistent. Longhorn’s built-in incremental snapshot and backup features keep volume data safe, while its intuitive UI makes scheduling backups of persistent volumes easy to manage. Using Longhorn, you get maximum granularity and control, and can easily create a disaster recovery volume in another Kubernetes cluster and fail over to it in the event of an emergency.

Easily Build Jenkins Pipelines - Tutorial

Are you building and deploying software manually and would like to change that? Are you interested in learning about building a Jenkins pipeline and better understand CI/CD and DevOps at the same time? In this first post, we will go over the fundamentals of how to design pipelines and how to implement them in Jenkins. Automation is the key to eliminating manual tasks and to reducing the number of errors while building, testing and deploying software.

Episode 7: Provisioning Linux Machines With Ansible

It's time to provision our Request Metrics server. There is some common configuration that applies to all Linux servers. We want this base configuration regardless of what that specific server is doing. This a great use case for an Ansible role. Our "linux-common" role includes these among other things:

Software Can Fight Coronavirus. We're Counting on You.

Everyone knows it’s been a tough time for businesses. All flights, conferences and in-person meetings have been canceled. The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has even made us all stand apart from each other and, if anything, bump elbows only. Times are tough. For those of you in the software business, you know you’ve got it easier than some industries. You CAN work from home. You CAN continue developing. And you should, too.