Networking has become a utility in our daily lives, but it is still evolving as a platform for modern commerce. CFEngine has now taken networking beyond simple automation, by bringing modern self-repairing, model-oriented approaches to WebScale management at the IP layer. Network interface configuration is nothing new in the world of configuration management. CFEngine versions 1 and 2 were plugging the obvious hole in the out-of-the-box experience during the mid 1990s, before operating systems finally got their acts together.
Are you a CFEngine user in sunny Los Angeles interested in learning more about the new CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0? If so, you should definitely look into attending a joint meetup being held by the LA CFEngine User Group and the League of Professional System Adminstrators (LOPSA) next Tuesday, July 8th, at 7pm in the Marina Del Ray area. CFEngine System Engineer Nick Anderson will be at the event to speak about some of the new and enhanced features of CFEngine Enterprise 3.
We had a fantastic webinar last month with CFEngine CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O’Donnell. During this wide-ranging discussion, Mark and Glenn discussed the concept of continuous operations, and how great service design combined with automation can empower organizations to survive and thrive in what is becoming know as “The Age of the Customer.” Mark also talked about Promise Theory and gave a short look at CFEngine Enterprise 3.
There is still time to register for one of our upcoming “Introduction to CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0” webinars being held next Tuesday and Wednesday. By attending one of these live webinars, you will learn how CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 can help you:
Proactively alert on policy drifts in your environment through a simple-to-use, configurable dashboard Gain comprehensive visibility into your IT infrastructure with enhanced compliance and and extensible inventory reporting Leverage new language abstractions to improve administration productivity Achieve painless integration with other IT systems using native JSON support Please visit our registration pages to learn more and sign up today: July 1st (10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm London UK BST)
Are you interested in learning more about WebScale IT and its increasing relevance to the enterprise datacenter? If so, you should definitely check out the global online event ‘WebScale Wednesday’ being hosted this week by Nutanix. Our CTO and Co-founder Mark Burgess will be participating in this event alongside pioneers and practitioners from companies such as Dell, Twitter, and Citrix for an engaging and interactive discussion around WebScale IT and how it is making its way into the mainstream datacenter.
Big news today - I am happy to share the news that CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 has been released! This release is a huge step forward for our company and our customers, with a number of both new and enhanced features designed for providing a secure, scalable, and reliable foundation for IT automation. Customers and users are crucial when it comes to feedback and continuous improvement. The fact that CFEngine 3.6.0 leapfrogs the competition across many facets is testament to an innovative development team working in tandem with customers experiencing and solving real world IT issues together.
There is still time to register for our upcoming webinar with Forrester Research this Thursday! Please join CFEngine Co-Founder and CTO Mark Burgess and guest speaker Forrester Research, Inc. Vice President and Research Director Glenn O’Donnell for a fascinating look into the principles of continuous operations and service management - and how great service design combined with automation can empower your organization to survive and thrive in what is becoming know as “The Age of the Customer.
Introduction CFEngine users version their policies. It’s a reasonable, easy thing to do: you just put /var/cfengine/masterfiles under version control and… you’re done?
What do you think? How do you version your own infrastructure?
Problem statement It turns out everyone likes convenience and writing the versioning machinery is hard. So for CFEngine Enterprise 3.6.0 we set out to provide version control integration with Git out of the box, disabled by default.
Companies of all sizes are under pressure to succeed in competitive environments requiring them to move faster with expectations of always-on service from their IT organization. However, these same IT groups are faced with significant challenges from manual processes, homegrown patchwork solutions, disparate systems, and other legacy problems. In order to overcome these issues, companies need to automate their infrastructure in an intelligent way to keep up with the pace of the business while at the same time providing a secure and stable environment to deploy complex multi-tier applications to local or cloud infrastructure.
Yesterday, I had an amazing opportunity to participate in the inaugural Internet of Things (IoT) Expo held at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. The event was conceived by Jeremy Geelan who is also behind the highly successful Cloud Expo events. The IoT Expo was well attended with many excellent keynotes and product demonstrations. Among others, industry leaders such as Tony Shakib (VP, IoT vertical at Cisco), Omri Lachman (Co-Founder and CEO Humavox), and Joe Speed (Director of IoT at the Linux Foundation) gave us very compelling insights into what IoT can achieve, its potential, as well as issues that still need to be solved for.
