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This article was written by Sahdev Zala, OpenStack Software Engineer at IBM and originally published on the IBM OpenTech blog. The article is being re-published with the author’s consent. The recent release of OpenStack TOSCA-Parser for TOSCA Simple… Read More

Last month, I visited Austin, Texas to participate in the latest Openstack Summit. It was my first visit to Austin and, boy, did I fall in love with this city. Great vibe, nice southern look and feel and amazing nightlife. The Summit, of course, was great! It was packed, people… Read More

One of great things about Cloudify is that many of us working here have previously worked as production engineers before, and we apply the same principles that made us good engineers there, into making a better product here, which is intended for the users we used to be. MonitoringAlertingLogging… Read More

Over the past few months I’ve been involved in various forums and discussion on what the right approach should be for achieving a common orchestration modeling language. I felt that while there’s a growing consensus that TOSCA is currently best positioned to fit… Read More

The latest OpenStack user survey on application platforms reveals an interesting trend when comparing this year’s survey with last year’s. See below. 2015 2016 https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/Public-User-Survey-Report.pdf http://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey-Report.pdf Try the Kubernetes Orchestration as… Read More

Recently, I worked with a prospect in the NFV domain who had quite a complex topology. They wished to orchestrate with TOSCA in an environment that included dozens of different VMs with different roles. In addition, there were many different networks, and… Read More

One of the differentiators in the marketplace for Cloudify is its ability to automate complex post deployment tasks. One such task is a rolling upgrade of software in a web server content. This is a multi-step process that typically involves a coordinated dance between the loadbalancer and the web servers,… Read More

Hey there awesome saucers! It’s been a jam packed month of events for us at Cloudify with the OpenStack Summit in Austin, NFV World Congress in San Jose, and lots more. But we didn’t forget you guys – and we are still here cranking out monthly roundups of awesome content… Read More

The MEF’s Goal and How Cloudify Fits the Bill The MEF is focused on enabling dynamic network services for the digital economy and the hyper-connected world by providing businesses an on-demand, cloud-connected, secure, and assured experience. It provides a practical evolution toward interconnected, orchestrated, and automated networks powered by… Read More

Preface The Innovator’s Dilemma faced by vendors of proprietary networking stacks is well documented. The blogsphere and the trade media have well documented the disruptive, one-two punch of open source NFV and white box hardware that threatens to undermine their business models. But just this week, at OpenStack… Read More

April is a huge month this year for Team Cloudify. We just finished NFV World Congress and are right away swept into the OpenStack Summit madness (which we love!). We are definitely out in force this summit and you can find us at booth C20 wearing our… Read More

This article was written by Chelsea Thompson and originally published on the Metaswitch Blogs. Chelsea is Technical Marketing Manager at Metaswitch. The article is being re-published with MetaSwitch’s consent. Metaswitch and GigaSpaces showed a fully orchestrated VoLTE solution on the VMware… Read More