cloud-based applications

November 5, 2019

NETWORKING

Cisco and Microsoft Advance Technology Partnership to Improve SD-WAN and Cloud Connectivity

2 min read

Cisco and Microsoft extend their partnership to help customers improve connectivity from branch offices to Microsoft by integrating Cisco’s SD-WAN with Microsoft’s Azure Virtual WAN and Office 365.

November 18, 2014

DATA CENTER

Going Native with OpenStack Centric Applications: Murano

6 min read

Following on our previous discussion surveying the projects supporting applications within OpenStack, let’s continue our review with an in-depth look at the OpenStack-native Application Catalog: Murano, currently an incubation status project, having seen its functionality and core services integration advanced over the past few OpenStack releases. What is it? An application catalog developed by Mirantis, HP […]

October 21, 2014

DATA CENTER

Application Configuration Management: What’s your Approach?

5 min read

Last we spoke, it was about network device configuration management. Let’s move our focus up the stack to applications and management of their configuration. Whether enterprise or cloud-architected, running on physical servers, in virtual machines or in containers, how are you managing your applications? Puppet, Chef, Ansible and Salt are popular answers to this question and leading […]