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Kubernetes As The Kernel For Data Center or Application Infrastructure Operating System

September 1, 2015 by Krishnan Subramanian 2 Comments

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 […]

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Beyond Container Orchestration | PaaS Is Full Choreography

November 25, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Microservices, Containers, PaaS and DevOps

November 19, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

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 […]

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Infrastructure for Modern Enterprises

May 21, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

As I go about talking about my Modern Enterprise theme, people ask me about the role of infrastructure in the Modern Enterprise platform. Industry confusion about the role of PaaS Vs IaaS (even though PaaS is a distinct layer on top of IaaS) is one of the biggest reasons for this. Today I’m adding my […]

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Containers Are the Foundation of Modern Enterprises

April 25, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Last week we had the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco where the talk of the town (ok, at least near Moscone Center) was containers. The clear message from the summit was that containers are key to future enterprise IT strategies. I am a big proponent of Docker since it was a new project released […]

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Docker Ecosystem Mapped out

March 16, 2014 by Krishnan Subramanian 20 Comments

Docker, the open source Linux containers, is fast becoming an industry standard due to the mindshare it has been receiving in the industry. From developers using Docker for their app dev needs to startups and bigger companies investing resources on the project, it is fast emerging as a standard for application containers. A vibrant ecosystem […]

Filed Under: Platforms Tagged With: Ansible, Chef, containers, docker, linux containers, openshift, openstack, Puppet, red hat, rhel, Saltstack, Stackato

PaaS Standards: Standardize on what?

October 1, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian Leave a Comment

Introduction Standardization is a natural process in any technological evolution and it helps enterprises in terms of quality control, repeatability, interoperability, etc.. As we move into the cloud based world, with large scale automation, standardization becomes even more important. Typically, open source makes standardization much easier. However, there is a strong belief in the industry […]

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The Importance Of Red Hat – Docker Partnership

September 19, 2013 by Krishnan Subramanian 1 Comment

Today Red Hat and dotCloud announced a technical partnership around Docker, the next-gen application container (disclosure: I am employed by Red Hat and was responsible for the initial meeting between these two companies to explore the technical collaboration. However, this is my personal opinion as an industry observer and it is not representative of Red […]

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My name is Krish Subramanian. I am the founder of Rishidot Research, an research and advisory firm focussed on Modern Enterprise. AllThingsPlatforms is a blog to talk about the platforms to build next generation services.

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