The Cloudify Blog

As technology and the complexity around software development and deployment grows, many look for that “Single pane of glass.” Be it for visualizing a jumble of various resources across multiple cloud providers, or looking at ways to automate infrastructure and data collection. This becomes especially true when looking at a… Read More

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure templating, or infrastructure as code (IaC) service provided free of charge by AWS.  It enables users the ability to describe groups of AWS infrastructure and services in a declarative manner.  HashiCorp Terraform addresses similar needs, including an IaC declarative approach, but in a… Read More

Cloudify is excited to be featured in this latest Intel document released after the launch of Intel Xeon SP Gen3 processor (Ice Lake). The guide describes how Cloudify orchestration, Kubernetes cloud technologies, and High Performance Computing are merging in Financial Services workloads optimized for 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. It… Read More

When you live in the age of containers, and your company name starts with “VM”, standing still isn’t an option if you want to survive.  Such is the case with VMWare, which has taken steps to leverage its massive install base in order to not be obliterated by public… Read More

In this article we’ll take a look at some of the leading technologies in the cloud orchestration space: Microsoft Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Hashicorp Terraform, and Cloudify.  All three offerings have different approaches and philosophies, and all have their place in the ecosystem.  Let’s take a look at… Read More

Featuring a Sean Tucker from AGC Partners, this episode discusses a new wave of DevOps, developer led tooling, adoption waves driven by necessity, and the cloud and edge purchase realities of telco in a world of 5g. _______ _______ Supporting Assets: Cloud Orchestration Language Roundup: A… Read More

The telco industry typically sees new software going live within 1-2 years; in the world of 5G, this simply won’t cut it. It’s safe to say that the telco industry must significantly shorten its time to market in order to be considered a viable infrastructure partner for the… Read More

In a previous post, (Ansible Vs Terraform) we’ve seen how Terraform and Ansible are command-line-oriented tools that are complimentary, rather than adversarial,  when it comes to capability.  It’s pretty safe to say that lifecycle management of infrastructure lends itself to a… Read More

Challenges and failures in handling multi-cloud and hybrid projects (a.k.a digital transformation projects) are no secret – in fact I have been covering this extensively over the past year, most recently (and perhaps most loudly) in my recent Forbes contribution (Our Gritty Digital Transformation Reality… Read More

This session talks about FINOS (the Fin-tech Open Source foundation), a community creating open-source oriented solutions for financial services. This episode features special guests James McLeod, Director of Community at FINOS, and Amol Shukla, an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley talking all things FINOS, DevOps mutualization, banking and tech.  _______… Read More

The telecommunications industry is going through a period of significant transition. Having been disrupted by digital-native companies from across the media and internet, telecom owned voice, data, and messaging services are under threat. They must transform their operations and business models to keep up with ever-changing customer expectations. Read More

We are incredibly proud to partner with Amazon AWS as they re-write how network and edge automation and 5G can be done in a post public cloud world. This is the first fully cloud-native, agile-first approach that turns processes that once took months and years into weeks, days, and hours. Read More