Tag: DevOps

What is promiscuous mode and why does it matter? 

  • Posted on: March 13, 2023
  • Author: Randy Courtright
It lets more network traffic through! That’s what promiscuous mode (or p-mode) does for the network card. It allows additional network traffic to the rest of the endpoint. What exactly do I mean by that and why does this need to happen sometimes? Here’s a quick overview of p-mode in both a traditional context for

Rclone on IBM Power – AIX and IBM i

  • Posted on: December 15, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support Rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols. I’m a big Rclone fan.  Helping migrate AIX and IBM i to

.NET 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Power – What does it mean?

  • Posted on: December 5, 2022
  • Author: Skytap
Unlocking this architecture’s development for Modern MS tools for any Power Linux OS is progress, PPC64LE repositories have languished regarding enabling things like PowerShell or .Net or other modern MS Tools, and will enable the current generation of developers to start leveraging their organization’s already established investments in Power architecture.

Rational Tools now available on Skytap for IBMi customers

  • Posted on: August 20, 2021
  • Author: Skytap
IBM i customers on Skytap who run development and test workloads or those who require compilers for their applications when moving to Skytap can now license the Rational Development Tools package self-service from the Skytap Hardware Settings page, Licensing section. Clicking on the Edit icon, users can now specify how many users they’d like to

Cloud Taxonomy for Non-Production Use Cases for the Cloud

  • Posted on: July 5, 2021
  • Author: Tony Perez
The following use cases are potential ways to use the cloud for non-production use cases. The key is to deliver “quickly” the infrastructure needed to perform a specific need or task. Waiting weeks for infrastructure delivery should be considered an “anti-pattern” since the cumulative time of waiting over the course of a project would be

Combining DevOps with Agile Development

  • Posted on: July 22, 2020
  • Author: Skytap
This is the first in a 4-part blog series on the topic of DevOps, Agile, and hybrid cloud.​ Organizations can accelerate the pace of software development, deployment, and innovation by combining DevOps with a hybrid cloud architecture and embracing Agile development methodologies. The State of DevOps DevOps describes the working relationship between software development and
application modernization in bimodal IT

Application Modernization from an Operations Perspective

  • Posted on: July 11, 2017
  • Author: Brad Schick
Bimodal, or multi-speed, IT is a recognition that software delivery in larger businesses is happening at different rates. It’s a description of the state of the world in which businesses recognize the fact that newer, more modern software is being delivered faster, and that older, more traditional software is being delivered more slowly. When people

Modern Accountability in Multi-Cloud Management

  • Posted on: June 2, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Enterprises aren’t just adopting cloud at an accelerated rate, recent surveys have shown that multi-cloud adoption is becoming the new standard. With no one-size-fits-all cloud provider in the market, and each vendor becoming increasingly known for a single or set of unique strengths, it makes sense that multi-cloud approaches are taking off. Skytap CTO, Brad Schick,

Compelling Reasons for IT to Improve Efficiency through DevOps

  • Posted on: May 10, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
If IT is measured by operational efficiency, and changing business demands are too much for existing infrastructure and systems to support, how does IT go from maintaining those systems to modernizing them with digital transformations? For many, a DevOps culture and practices—combined with cloud technologies—is the key to getting there, but a lack of one clear path to

Despite Tales of Massive Container Adoption, DockerCon Left Questions Unanswered

  • Posted on: April 26, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
“There is widespread confusion about virtual machines versus containers, as well as what containers can realistically do for legacy applications…” – Yaron Haviv, Founder & CTO, iguazio Systems Ltd. Yaron Haviv sat down for an interview with the Cube/Silicon Angle at DockerCon 2017, and in that chat, Yeron spoke candidly about what is on a

Container Management and Enterprise Adoption Go Big at DockerCon17

  • Posted on: April 11, 2017
  • Author: Skytap
Skytap is headed to DockerCon in Austin, Texas next week, and we wanted to share some of the places where you can check out Skytap’s powerful new container management offering, how you can register for our “Docker, DevOps, and Reality” panel and cocktail party, and some of the week’s incredible sessions that we’re most looking