Monthly Archives: August 2024

Granite in Containers

In my last post, I gave an outline of the Granite demonstration application and how I use Granite to create a production-like data centre workload across a group of VMs. I am migrating that workload to containers, Kubernetes, and the … Continue reading

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Faking Production for Education.

Most of my work as a trainer and analyst involves helping people learn about IT infrastructure. I like to use a storytelling teaching method based on real-world, hands-on deployment considerations. The problem is that real-world environments aren’t usually amenable to … Continue reading

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Can You Afford To Replace (or To Keep) VMware in Your Datacenter?

The packaging and pricing changes that Broadcom has made to the VMware product suite have left many customers wondering whether there is still value for money. These customers are often caught between the cost of keeping VMware in place and … Continue reading

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