The last few months saw the emegence of industry standards on containers and container orchestration, leading to initiatives like Open Container Project and Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Red Hat’s OpenShift became the first application deployment platform on top of Docker based Containers and Kubernetes. There are many other vendors planning to offer platforms using Docker […]
Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography
When I talk to end users in my role as industry observer, I see confusion between container orchestration and PaaS. Some people seem to wrongly assume that the only thing PaaS does is orchestrate application containers. While PaaS takes care of container orchestration, it goes way beyond that to offer a developer interface similar to […]
Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps
Microservices is fast emerging as a modern way for building applications inside many organizations. It is a trend that had its initial roots in startups wanting to avoid the “legacy quagmire” that has negatively impacted many large enterprises to this today. Recently, it has started gaining more steam as organizations are realizing that reimagining their IT with […]
A Simple Formula For Modern Enterprise Success
As I talk to enterprise customers about DevOps and Modern Enterprise, I hear lots of confusion about how trends like agile, DevOps, PaaS, etc. fit into the idea of the Modern Enterprise. In this post, I will try to connect these trends and show a simple formula to maximize the productivity and agility gains in […]
DevOps, PaaS and Modern IT
Introduction One of the biggest selling points of cloud is agility. Cloud on it’s own doesn’t make organizations agile. Organizations must look beyond the marketing hype to maximize agility when adopting cloud technologies. If organizations embrace cloud technology without changing traditional IT practices or processes the return on investment and iterative improvement is minimal. This […]
Going Beyond Config Management Tools For DevOps
Two weeks ago I wrote a blog post arguing that DevOps is not just about culture (which, of course, is at the heart of DevOps) but also about aligning the right tools with the culture. Even though I don’t claim a single prescription for handling DevOps, some felt I implied specific tools to be DevOps […]
Scaling Infrastructure Alone Doesn’t Maketh Platform
Yesterday, on the Digital Nibbles Podcast, host and fellow Cloud pundit Reuven Cohen asked me why do we need PaaS when one can achieve automated scaling on IaaS services like Amazon Web Services. I thought I will do a short post answering this question as it seems to be a common question in the industry. […]
PaaS 2013
I started out 2013 working as an analyst focussed on cloud services, in general, and Platform as a Service, in particular. By the end of 2013, I am now the Strategy guy for OpenShift @ Red Hat focussing more on OpenShift platform. As I plot my way to keep the research community around Rishidot Research […]
Significance of OpenShift Price Reduction
Today Red Hat (disclosure: Red Hat is my employer and I am working as Director, OpenShift strategy but this blog post is not representative of their views and this is my personal take) announced significant price cuts to their OpenShift Online service. They slashed down the price of gears by 50% in their silver plan […]
PaaS and DevOps: A Marriage of Seamless Collaboration
PaaS and DevOps are much discussed topics these days in meetups and conferences around the world. The ambiguity around the very definition of DevOps is pushing people to wonder if there is any connection between DevOps and PaaS. I want to briefly touch on this topic in the hopes of generating a conversation on the […]