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With all the amazing events happening right around now, we have had to split the Cloudify team between them. NFV World Congress is one event that we couldn’t miss – and the team will not only be there, one of our own will be joining a very… Read More

Introduction by Jeremy Hess, Cloudify Community Manager Our goal at Cloudify, aside from building the most awesome cloud orchestration platform, is to be as transparent as possible about what’s happening on the inside. We are, after all, an open source software product. In keeping with that… Read More

In my previous post, I described orchestrating a hybrid architecture that included Kubernetes, Kubernetes hosted microservices, and a cloud hosted database, all running on Openstack. That post described how everything was deployed, but left the implementation of post deployment… Read More

We’re back (finally!) with another episode of the Awesome Sauce (almost, hopefully always from now on) Monthly Roundup. Naturally, some of these may have been known to you from an earlier point, but we try to bring as many fresh ones as possible. This month is a bit more… Read More

In a previous post, I converted a Fabric-based plugin implementation to an Openstack agent-based implementation. In this episode, I finally reached one of the key goals of this long running effort; to automate scaling on Kubernetes using Cloudify native means. The path to this goal leads… Read More

Just about two weeks ago at Mobile World Congress, GigaSpaces announced the formation of ARIA. In this post, I want to offer readers a short and informative brief on what ARIA is, why there is a need for such a technology, and… Read More

Hot on the heels of Mobile World Congress, Team Cloudify is ready to rock the Santa Clara Convention Center for the Open Networking Summit! We are proud sponsors of ONS this year and we are excited to be displaying more of Cloudify’s NFV… Read More

Mobile World Congress was a whirlwind event this year and there was no shortage of NFV interest and talk throughout the 4-day conference. The OpenStack & Beyond team made sure to get in on the action by hosting a live episode straight from the floor (well, in a meeting room). Read More

What is a vIMS on boarding service? It is a virtual phone or even a mobile phone where users can connect to each other, similar to Skype. It is built on the following architecture. Bono, which receives the incoming connection, then sends it to Sprout which acts as the… Read More

This article was written by Simon Dredge and originally published on the Metaswitch Blogs. Simon is Director of Technical Marketing at Metaswitch. The article is being re-published with the express written consent of the author. I remember that ‘aha’ moment when… Read More

 What is a VIM? A VIM, according to the MANO specification, is a virtual infrastructure manager. In a nutshell, a VIM is the same as IaaS in the cloud domain and Cloudify brings that IaaS concept to the… Read More

We hear the term data plane acceleration (DPA) tossed around a lot in the context of NFV (Network Functions Virtualization), and this is because the successful adoption of NFV highly depends on the ability of a virtualized cloud infrastructure to deliver sufficient performance compared to today’s proprietary network… Read More