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DevOps Conceptual Intro

/ / @Mike_Colson, DevOps, Solutions / 2 Replies

One of the topics I have been asked a lot about while doing Enterprise Hybrid Cloud presentations lately is the concept of DevOps. As many of you know I cover the Federal Government for those that don’t the worst kept secret is now out.  While the government sales cycles and IT cycles are usually far behind their commercial enterprise counterparts they tend to have better control over security and operations. (This really is true despite how much I have complained about my time working in the data centers.)

DevOps however is a relatively new topic for what has traditionally been a very ITIL driven and stove-piped world. While boxes need to be checked and security is of the utmost importance the concept of integrating teams and attacking production problems at the onset of projects is somewhat foreign. While I think DevOps is really very useful I also firmly believe that it’s everything in it’s time and place. It is with that in mind that I made the presentation you will see below. This isn’t something I have presented with customers yet, so you my tens of readers get to be the first to see it and give me some feedback. I am targeting IT Managers and Sr Sys Admins with it and trying to just give a 5000 ft view of what DevOps is to get them started.

Everyone loves buzzwords but hopefully this can help them get over that hump and into the mind set of discovering what the underlying concepts are and can do. Please reach out to me in comments or on twitter to let me know what you think.

(Edit: added some slides and content to the deck, thanks to everyone for the input and help!)

VMware EVO:Rail

/ / @Mike_Colson, EMC, Enterprise Design Considerations, Enterprise Solutions, EVO: Rail, Hyper Converged, Hyper Converged Infrastructure Appliance, Solutions, vExpert, VMware, vSpecialist / 1 Reply

For the tens of you who read this site you know that I am a believer in hyper converged architectures. Like anything there is benefits and drawbacks, but I will say that there is a cooleness factor and simplicity that make hyper converged infrastructure really appealing. As it is VMworld this week I am sure many of you have heard the announcement of EVO: Rail and I am behind the bigger blogs on posting something.

The reason for my waiting is as a vSpecialist I didn’t want to get ahead of EMC announcements. Now that Chad has done his sessions I feel safe to at least start talking about the public aspects of EVO: Rail and what EMC is planning to do.

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VMworld Fun

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Folks it’s that time of year again, where the virtualization community descends on San Francisco for VMworld.  Every year there are announcements made and twitter battles fought and this year will prove no different. With many announcements already slated it should prove to be an interesting week.

Much like the rest of the tech industry I will be there working at the EMC booth, come by and let’s chat Enterprise Hybrid Cloud or End User Computing! Or come watch v0dgeball where I will be participating with my fellow vExperts trying to win it all for charity. Hit me up on twitter or just follow the timeline to find which party I am enjoying a beer at and I can’t wait to see everyone there.

Once announcements are official I will post thoughts and awesomeness here, until then Boots and Pants