p>When Ubuntu LTS Server Edition made the radical decision to offer Long Term (five year) support for its server edition software, it sparked the potential to make a significant impact on data center management. Upgrading servers is one of the most disruptive operations in a data center because …
Cloud woes? CFEngine made its Orion Cloud Pack available last week, as a 1-2-3 quick-start for users of its CFEngine 3.0.x family of products. Continuing the astronomical theme of the company, the page sports the slogan “Get the cloud under Orion’s belt” – a reference to the …
Psyching yourself up for an upgrade to CFEngine 3? You’ve probably convinced yourself that it is harder than it is. CFEngine allows you to decide between high and low level approaches. High level often means simplistic or inefficient, but low level can be overwhelming – there is a …
The Netherlands are well known for pushing the boundaries of IT to support scientific initiatives. The Dutch Supercomputing Centre SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum) is one of the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world and has been an ardent CFEngine user for many years. In keeping with …
More players are beginning to realize the benefits of the kind of model-driven configuration thinking that CFEngine introduced in the 1990s. Today, this kind of pre-programmed, policy-based configuration and repair are becoming essential partners for the commoditization of computing services in the …
It has become common recently to refer to CFEngine on the web as an “academic” project. Turns out, though, that this phrase turns out to mean quite different things depending on who’s using it, and sometimes it doesn’t really mean anything at all. For CFEngine users, the …
The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre’s Earthquake Monitoring component at Geoscience Australia recently adopted CFEngine’s newest worldwide software release to radically simplify the management of their test and production real-time monitoring systems. With so many earthquake …
The US Defense Department’s principal operational processing center for automated numerical meteorological and oceanographic analyses and predictions FNMOC chooses CFEngine Nova as the solution for their Meteorology and Oceanography Center, ensuring reliable weather reports for the US fleet. …
Jarle Bjorgeengen of the University of Oslo did a laboratory study showing the efficiency merits of CFEngine. The report is available to USENIX members in their ;login: magazine. Resource efficiency is a huge factor when talking about virtualization and configuration management in elastic Cloud …
Mark Burgess was interviewed (with a sore throat) on FLOSS weekly. Listen in here (mp3 file).
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