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What’s your culture? Ask yourself.

I recently completed reading this book. One of the challenges the book asks, is to judge your…

Object Storage: OpenStack Swift

Often, clients are focused on the disk space required for Swift or other object storage systems, this is not the only metric. Some of the following metric areas can help to define the size and architecture of a Openstack Swift Cluster. These metrics drive things like…

Aligning IT to improve enterprise culture

While it’s broadly understood that organizations need to stay one step ahead of digital disruption in their marketplace, not enough organizations are taking advantage of their own digital transformation when it occurs. Inherent within these transformations…

Stackato: F5 Configurations

I needed a place to store lots of details about various documentation around configurations across many topics to setup F5 LTMs for Stackato. It’s a core dump, sorry. But lots of really useful information:

Stackato Traffic Flows

*this article applies to HPE Helion Stackato 3.6.2 only*

The start-up cloud solution restoring speed advantage for Big Business

Inside the tech industry, there’s a clear imbalance between fast start-ups and big enterprises. Start-ups have the luxury, ability and freedom to initiate and implement change much faster than large…

Mutually Authenticated SSL

For CloudFoundry applications, if you need a mutually authenticated SSL, here are some notes on how that’s done.

Traditionally you might “pull the ssl cert” all the way down into the application container, like is done in an application server farm, old…