If you are familiar with minikube, a lightweight implementation of the Kubernetes ecosystem, then you may have also heard of Minishift. Designed as a development platform and delivered through a utility, this is the Red Hat OKD (Origin Kubernetes Distribution—formerly called OpenShift Origin) all-in-one implementation of Red Hat OpenShift. Being highly versatile, it can be …

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If you have discovered that your application demand changes over time, you’re probably wondering how you can continuously adjust your cloud capacity in accordance to application demand. If you use CloudFormation, then you’re in luck! This article walks through how you can update your template code to automatically implement infrastructure adjustments, periodically. Considering Infrastructure as …

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Advantages of Graviton Processor Instances for Your Workloads Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Graviton2 processor-based instances utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a significant leap in performance and capabilities over the first-generation AWS Graviton processor (A1 series) instances. Amazon boasts that these new instances provide up to a …

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What is Cloud Scaling? In cloud computing, scaling is the process of adding or removing compute, storage, and network services to meet the demands a workload makes for resources in order to maintain availability and performance as utilization increases. Scaling generally refers to adding or reducing the number of active servers (instances) being leveraged against …

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Cloud Computing brings New Benefits & Challenges to Infrastructure Management Cloud computing has fundamentally changed the way enterprises think about information technology infrastructure. A decade ago, IT professionals would make projections about the number and types of servers they would need for the next several months to a year. In some cases, they’d plan for …

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On-Premises Versus Public Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing complements on-premises computing. On-premises refers to enterprise infrastructure that iss completely managed in a company’s data center or in a third-party data center. An enterprise is free to choose the hardware and software stack to run on their infrastructure. They’re also responsible for …

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It’s officially the second week of December and AWS re:Invent 2019 has come and gone leaving behind a wealth of announcements and information for the industry to process. With over 60,000 attendees it’s easy to see how the conference can be overwhelming. Densify was privileged to be in attendance this year as both attendees and …

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Cloud & Containers: Thinking in Real Time Cloud computing has transformed how enterprises think about infrastructure. A decade ago, IT professionals had to make server projections months or years in advance, deciding on the types of servers they’d need. That would in turn be largely determined by the services required for their business needs and …

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Densify is pleased to have been included in The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Cost Management And Optimization, Q4 2020 report. We do, however, believe that the evaluation was too summarized to truly illuminate the strengths and limitations of each vendor based on the specific needs of an enterprise. For example, if you dive into the companion …

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Sick of the Tug of War Between Finance & App Owners? As a cloud operations professional, you may find yourself stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to meeting the needs of application owners and finance teams. App owners want one thing: to make sure their apps are always working and …

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