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Well, re:Invent 2018 is about 2 weeks out and I'm pretty much locked in (aka waitlisted) on my schedule. Is it just me or does every session fill up in less than 15 minutes? This year I'm looking to dive into more automation and containers. Here's a few of the sessions I'm planning on attending. Containers CON214: Mythical Mysfits: Monolith to Microservice with Docker and AWS Fargate A foundational container workshop with AWS's managed container service. I'm hoping to discover a few tricks to modernizing legacy apps. WIN314: Modernize Your First Windows Application with Windows Containers  Grab your .Net app and shove it into a Windows Container ... in 60 minutes or less. Go! CON306: Observability for Modern Applications Monitoring, tracking, logging, etc for composite applications. It's challenging to get visibility across all the components of your application when they turn into a bunch of microservices. CON210: Security for Contain

Good Monday morning! Wow, interesting news about IBM acquiring Redhat. Does this mean we get Big Purple or Purple Hat? I've seen quite a few folks pondering what this means including me. So I thought I'd share a few facts that seem worthwhile. If IBM counts RedHat's $2.9B USD revenue toward cloud then it pushes them to $21.9B USD which is right in the mix with Microsoft's $26.7B and Amazon's $23.4B. ( Read more at Forbes )  RedHat's OpenShift container platform (Docker and Kubernetes) gives IBM a full ownership stake in a market leader in this space. A move which could reduce their reliance on Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS which is owned/controlled by Dell ( Read more at SDx Central  and Forbes ) IBM released a PaaS offering called Bluemix in 2014 that leverages Pivotal CloudFoundary. IBM rebranded it IBM Cloud.   Pivotal completed an IPO in April 2018 and is majority owned by Dell ( Read more at Seeking Alpha ) Adoption of the open source  Kubernetes

Hi World, glad to meet you! This is my 1st blog posting on my new OpsForward.com  site. I've been thinking about doing this for some time and I've finally taken the plunge. My goal is to bring perspectives on topics like cloud, monitoring & APM, DevOps, SecOps, IoT, and anything else that might be fun to talk about. Let's talk about data protection with cloud. I was having a conversation with a friend in sales about where to get started with cloud services in the context of more traditional IT shops that are still firmly in the data center. We landed on data protection and disaster recovery options for on-prim workloads. It seems to be a good jumping off point for IT teams that want to get started in cloud without having to go all-in and shutdown their data centers. Both Amazon and Microsoft offer some interesting options. Here are some starting points to get you going. AWS Storage Gateway for VTL This offering drops a virtual appliance into your on-prim v