The Cloudify Blog
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Infrastructure as Code: The Foundation for ‘Environment as a Service’
- By Team Cloudify,
- February 3, 2020
- infrastructure as code
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) is seen by some as the ultimate expression of the IT work environment. After all, once the entire stack can be created in software, the enterprise has an unlimited ability to create, expand, and tear down dev, test, production, and any other environment it chooses. This may be true, but it […]
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Infrastructure as Code – Is it REALLY enough for DevOps?
- By Team Cloudify,
- January 23, 2020
- infrastructure as code
One of the more compelling aspects of modern enterprise architecture is the idea of Infrastructure as Code (IAC). By virtualizing entire data ecosystems, organizations gain the ability to design, provision and manage them completely in software, ushering in a new era of infrastructure flexibility and cost-efficiency. But while this may seem like digital nirvana, there […]
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2020: Multi-Cloud and Networking Predictions
- By Jonny Rosen,
- January 14, 2020
- Multi-Cloud
2019 was indeed the year public cloud won the enterprise data center war. Microsoft and Google came a close 2nd to AWS who slowly began to lose monopoly. At the same time, 2019 was the year where large enterprises realized that transformation to public cloud would be long and perhaps painful. That realization brought 80% […]
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Cloudify: Simplifying complex environments
- By Team Cloudify,
- January 7, 2020
- Cloudify
By introducing ‘Environment as a Service’, the latest Cloudify release has made massive strides to simplify the way organizations automate and manage multi-cloud services and network orchestration. According to Gartner, DevOps toolchains ‘can include dozens of unintegrated tools, which makes automation a technically complex and arduous task’. Enterprises often need to spend considerable time […]
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SD-WAN over Satellite – a Multi-Operator, Multi-Vendor, Multi-Access solution
- By Team Cloudify,
- December 18, 2019
- Cloudify
Cloudify held an ‘SD-WAN over Satellite Access’ POC together with Intelsat, CMC Networks, 128T, Nokia Nuage, Kontron and GDX, at the last MEF 19 event. This POC received the 2019 MEF 3.0 service implementation award. The motivation was to show how to connect areas with problematic existing Internet connectivity or no connectivity at all utilizing […]
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Watch | Intel Cloudify Webinar: Running I/O intensive workloads on Kubernetes
- By Team Cloudify,
- December 14, 2019
- Kubernetes Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes was originally developed for running large-scale container based web applications, which have been designed with cloud native principles to enable workload portability- it has not however been designed to support this category of application. In this webinar, Intel together with Cloudify’s CTO Nati Shalom, will demonstrate how Cloudify orchestrates F5 Networks’ containerized network functions […]
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KPN Leverages Cloudify Technology, Winning Network Transformation Award at SDN NFV World Congress
- By Team Cloudify,
- December 3, 2019
- Cloudify VNF
With an aim to develop a telco cloud platform and automate various virtual network functions, KPN partnered with industry orchestration expert Cloudify to automate VNF deployments, demonstrating the importance of rationalizing and automating the instantiation of services, leading to a win of the prestigious Operator Award – ‘Embracing Open’ at the Network Transformation Awards. KPN […]
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Watch | Cloudify @ ONUG; Escaping the Multi-cloud headache
- By Jonny Rosen,
- November 5, 2019
- Cloudify Multi-Cloud
Your CI/CD pipeline in today’s cloud environment is … well, more than complicated. It can become a major blocker, particularly when dealing with multi-cloud. Watch our CTO’s 10 minute session at ONUG Fall 2019 and learn why existing automation tools alone are not the way forward. Click here and register to access the full video.
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Tech Focus | Kubernetes & The Quest for Orchestration
- By Jonny Rosen,
- October 7, 2019
- Cloudify Tech Focus
Kubernetes adoption is growing rapidly and has become the de-facto standard platform for running cloud-native applications. Having said that more than half (52%) of companies are not widely adopting Kubernetes within their organizations due to a lack of expertise, highlighting the operational complexity of Kubernetes deployment and the acute need for management solutions – cited […]
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Cloudify & Aptira | Multi-Cloud Orchestration Success
- By Jonny Rosen,
- September 25, 2019
- Orchestration
Cloudify recently worked with Aptira to solve the multi-cloud orchestration challenges of one of their clients, a major Australian telecommunications company. The client aimed to deploy and manage Virtual Network Functions (VNF) workloads across a Public Cloud platform (Microsoft Azure) and a Private Cloud platform (OpenStack) to determine whether the platform could be adopted within […]
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5 Reasons Your Network Transformation Is Failing
- By Jonny Rosen,
- September 12, 2019
- Network Automation Networking
There are several challenges that come with network functions virtualization (NFV), a method of outlining and operating networking services. As businesses continue to grow and generate more information, it becomes increasingly difficult for company teams to harness the wide range of data produced by current systems in order to perform analytics, reduce latency, conduct tests, […]
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Tech Focus | The Path to Intelligent Orchestration
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- August 29, 2019
- Automation Cloudify
Orchestration can be viewed as part of an automation continuum- even though, of course, all software is essentially automation. Layer upon layer of abstraction has been built to improve productivity and understand complex systems. The cloud revolution is built up these abstractions, going beyond mere application logic to the computer itself; these abstractions are the […]
