In this article for Gestalt IT, Adam Fisher concludes his series focused on RackN, IT Ops, and infrastructure provisioning and management. With RackN’s Digital Rebar platform, IT Ops can bring infrastructure operations back under their control, freeing developers from infrastructure concerns and enabling them to focus on applications. Integrating Digital Rebar with self-service developer portals allows for consistent and compliant infrastructure provisioning, enhancing developer efficiency and loyalty, while ensuring security, cost control, and alignment with organizational standards. The collaboration between IT Ops and developers facilitated by RackN ultimately drives innovation and improves business competitiveness.
Infrastructure Pipelines Become Reality With RackN Digital Rebar
In this Cloud Field Day Tech Note for RackN, Adam Fisher explores how Digital Rebar empowers IT Ops with consistency, efficiency, and flexibility in managing modern data centers. Infrastructure pipelines, enabled by RackN’s Digital Rebar, streamline infrastructure provisioning and management, allowing for faster time to value and improved collaboration between teams. With multi-site management and IaC catalogs, IT Ops can achieve operational control and standardization across their organization’s infrastructure deployments. Learn more about RackN’s solutions and watch their presentations from Cloud Field Day!
RackN Brings Bare Metal Into the Cloud Age
Adam Fisher, in this Day Tech Note presented by RackN, discusses how RackN’s Digital Rebar has changed the infrastructure mindset by bringing modern cloud automation to traditional infrastructure. As cloud adoption increases, IT practitioners need to adapt their skillsets beyond traditional silos and embrace the agility and scalability of the public cloud in enterprise infrastructure. Digital Rebar enables centralized, end-to-end infrastructure-as-code workflows for bare metal provisioning, allowing infrastructure teams to manage, update, and scale bare metal systems with ease. Read more at Gestalt IT!
RackN Bridges the Gap Between People and Platforms
Adam Fisher discusses the power of Digital Rebar from RackN in this Tech Note, the first of a series sponsored by RackN. With technology evolving rapidly, the need for automation in deploying applications at scale has become crucial. RackN’s Digital Rebar serves as a reliable automation platform that empowers IT Ops to effectively manage infrastructure in the modern era, bridging the gap between people and platforms.
Making Infrastructure Lifecycle Management Painless With RackN Digital Rebar
RackN Digital Rebar extends the automation capabilities of Infrastructure as Code to any infrastructure making lifecycle management easy, effortless and self-driving. In this article, Sulagna Saha discusses how RackN’s Digital Rebar architecture provides a straightforward way for organizations to deploy and manage their infrastructure reliably, transparently, and repetitively, simplifying the provisioning and management of infrastructure by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation. Watch the demo on the website or read the review at Gestalt IT.
Day Two Cloud 198: Modern Cloud Design Themes From CFD 17
Day Two Cloud’s Ned Bellavance, Ethan Banks, and Michael Levan highlight some key design themes at Cloud Field Day 17, hosted by Tech Field Day. These themes include platform engineering, data protection, disaster recovery, and the co-existence of old and new technologies in modern IT. Kubernetes’ growing status as the default platform choice was mentioned. Backup and disaster recovery solutions by HYCU, Zerto, and others bridge the gap between on-prem and cloud environments. Listen to this episode to learn more!
The Algorithm Made Me Do It: Cloud Field Day 17 Wrap-Up – Chaos Lever [EP61]
Ned Bellavance attended Cloud Field Day 17 in Boston and discussed the event with Chris Hayner on the Chaos Lever podcast. HYCU focuses on cloud backup and recovery and built a cloud-native backend and provide native backup solutions for AWS, Azure, and GCP with a marketplace and a development kit for SAS vendors to create backup solutions. RackN showcased their software platform, Digital Rebar, which simplifies working with on-premises hardware and bare metal servers and automates provisioning and configuration tasks for private clouds. Couchbase, a database-as-a-service company, utilizes native cloud constructs and offers secure private and public connection endpoints for database tenants. The event also emphasized the significance of VMware, the reality of multi-cloud environments, and the emerging trends of platform engineering and internal developer portals.
Cloud Field Day 17 Recap
Michael Levan gives an overview of Cloud Field Day 17, which included several innovative platforms useful for cloud computing and modernization. Platforms like HYCU, Morpheus Data, and RackN offer self-service and integration to aid in orchestration and provide better support. Zerto is a comprehensive VMware-based platform with backups based on detection and real-time alerting; Couchbase offers a vendor-agnostic NoSQL solution for cost optimization, and JetStream Software is an essential Disaster Recovery tool.
RackN at Cloud Field Day 17
In this article, Eric Wright reacts to the RackN presentation from Cloud Field Day 17. RackN is a versatility platform with capabilities in distributed infrastructure orchestration, automation, and lifecycle. The company provides a solution for enterprise infrastructure management by focusing on resiliency and speed in operations that free up resources, reduce toil, and enable faster deployments. RackN leverages RackN Digital Rebar as a vendor-neutral infrastructure-as-code automation platform that enables IaC automation with reusable workflows and empowers developers to use their tool of choice, providing a highly reliable and consistent DevOps experience.
Elevate Your Cloud Knowledge at Cloud Field Day 17
Cloud Field Day 17 takes place May 31 and June 1, 2023, providing an in-depth look at the future of cloud technology. With a focus on the modern enterprise cloud, the event will explore the latest developments in cyber security, platform operations, data protection, and true integration. Join HYCU, Morpheus Data, RackN, Zerto, JetStream, and Couchbase as they delve into their cutting-edge approaches, with all sessions broadcast live on LinkedIn and recordings available on YouTube, promoting engagement and ongoing educational opportunities for all.
IaC Automation With RackN
Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha gives her thoughts on how RackN is exchanging routine manual tasks for IaC automation that makes managing infrastructure easier than ever. You can check out RackN’s and all of the presentations from Cloud Field Day on the Tech Field Day website!
CFD13 Day Three Recap – StormForge, RackN and Fortinet
Looking for a recap from Day 1 of February’s Cloud Field Day? Check out Adam Fisher’s post about the presentations from StormForge, RackN, and Fortinet!
RackN Digital Rebar: Managing Infrastructures With a Single Control Plane
Writing for Gestalt IT, Sulagna Saha discusses the new RackN Digital Rebar that was presented at this past Cloud Field Day. Their solution presents a way to use infrastructures without having to constantly deal their inherent complexities. Check out Sulagna’s thoughts here!
Infrastructure as Code Is … Code
Keith Townsend, a Field Day delegate, attended this past Cloud Field in San Jose, California, where he got to meet up with an old friend from RackN! RackN discussed the advantages of immutable artifacts to automate the infrastructure as a code pipeline. Keith found this presentation to be very impactful, check out his thoughts and most recent podcast here!
