As the senior IT manager leading the engineering team that designs and deploys data storage solutions at NetApp, I know two things: Cloud, DevOps, *aaS (anything as a service) and growing infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes are changing the way we deliver IT and deploy modern applications. Despite the number of folks who unwittingly […]
Putting a DevOps strategy in place makes sense if your business is interested in decreasing time to market, raising customer satisfaction, and increasing productivity and collaboration among your teams. Does that sound like your company? You’ve come to the right blog. At NetApp, we understand the importance of the symbiotic relationship between […]
Like many companies, NetApp runs some old, large enterprise applications that are maintained like zombies. Barely kept alive, these apps are important to the company yet are complicated to keep updated and are expensive to support. As the IT leader for the developers who focus on custom business app development inside NetApp, my team and […]
The 2019 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) is just around the corner and I am excited about it. It’s been over two years since I’ve had the opportunity to attend the conference that Gene Kim founded. Gene is the author of “The Phoenix Project” – the book that kicked off the IT Revolution and set many […]
INSIGHT 2019 is just around the corner and promises to deliver a wealth of technical sessions and hands-on labs to help you make the most of NetApp’s rich DevOps technologies, enabling you to simplify workloads and improve business value. What’s better than having NetApp’s technical experts talk about our DevOps solutions? Listening to […]
When the swag is cleared, all QR codes scanned, and all vendors met, you know it’s the end of a noteworthy AnsibleFest. Even more so as 2019 marked an increase of attendees by about 25-30% to around 1,500! And, from our perspective on the show floor, Ansible continues to be the clear leader for Configuration […]
I have worked in IT for over 25 years and am intrigued by how the world is being changed by software. It feels like every company today is defined by their ability to rapidly meet customer’s needs via software. This software driven world demands rapid application development. Regardless if it is an IoT solution, a […]
Over the past 18 months I have been part of an exciting NetApp IT initiative to build a DevOps platform that provides the cloud services, automation, and CI/CD release models that our application development teams need to build cloud native applications. We call the platform CloudOne as it provides one consistent developer experience, irrespective of […]
Are your operations teams free from lengthy resource provisioning and manual storage management? Do they rely on automation to make sure that the right cloud infrastructure tools, integrations, and automated policies are in place to fuel your company’s innovation? If your company is like many, your answer is no. Most organizations are still working toward […]
“The risk for innovation is high if we don’t have the right technology in place.” This is one (of many) statements I highlight in my notes from Nicole Forsgren, CEO of DORA (now a part of Google Cloud) and author of the annual State of DevOps report and Accelerate, at our first DevOps day at NetApp Insight. In the time she […]
DevOps engineers face the seemingly impossible challenge of provisioning multiple up-to-date, easily refreshable test copies of large production datasets. With continuously running test environments, short development lifecycles, and the pressure to go ever faster, engineers need a cloud-native, high-performing file system unlike any that has gone before. NetApp® Cloud Volumes Service and Azure NetApp […]
The traditional approach to creating a copy of a live production dataset, such as a file share or a database, is to perform a backup and restore. However, this procedure produces a multitude of issues and does not scale well when you need large numbers of environments, and/or those environments need to be refreshed quickly. […]
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