Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Siddharth Deekshit. Today’s Q&A post covers an interview between Siddharth Deekshit, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery engineering and Quentin Drion, IT Director of Infrastructure and Operations, MSC. MSC is a global shipping and logistics business, our conversation focused on their organization’s journey with Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To learn more about achieving resilience in Azure, refer to this whitepaper. I wanted to start by understanding the transformation journey that MSC is going through, including consolidating on Azure. Can you talk about how Azure is helping you run your business today? We are a shipping ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. There are three different types of data models: conceptual, logical and physical, and each has a specific purpose.Conceptual Data Models: High-level, static business structures and concepts Logical Data Models: Entity types, data attributes and relationships between entities Physical Data Models: The internal schema database design An organization’s approach to data modeling will be influenced by its particular needs and the goals it is trying to reach, as explained here: But with the different types of data models, an organization benefits from using all three, depending on the information it wishes ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; 2017 was an exciting year for many people managing infrastructure and delivering software — from dealing with WannaCry to experimenting with or investing more in cloud or container infrastructure, and adopting DevOps practices.And it was a great year for Puppet and organizations using Puppet, thanks in no small part to many of you.But what will 2018 hold? Here are our predictions"In 2018 I think we are going to see more distributed systems and applications, leading us to smaller units of applications. Container workloads will be the norm in production with Kubernetes reaching the ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today Puppet is pleased to announce the availability of two point releases for Puppet Enterprise that provide additional operating system support and security updates. The parallel releases are PE 2016.4.10, for our long term support series, and PE 2017.3.4, for our standard release. We're very excited to add support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 agents running on Arm's AArch64 CPU architecture. We've developed this capability in partnership with Arm to better serve Puppet Enterprise customers who are deploying Arm-based servers in their data centers. In addition to the Arm support, we now ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Meltdown and Spectre are related bugs in computer processors which can lead to disastrous security breaches and data leakage. Searching for these keywords will reveal an overwhelming number of explanations at different technical levels, so I will not attempt to offer yet another one here. If you are interested in the original — technical — article on the subject, I recommend this article by Google.In a recent blog post, James Pogran described how to leverage Puppet Bolt and Puppet Tasks to detect Spectre / Meltdown vulnerabilities on Windows. With the new meltdown module ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; With any luck, you’ve seen all the reports about the vulnerabilities recently discovered called Spectre and Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754) and know how serious they are. And odds are, you’re already planning the rollout of the patches and BIOS updates needed to bring your environment into compliance, and you have a good idea of how many nodes need to be touched, but you don’t have an easy way of verifying the current state of things. But you need a quick way to determine what the current state is, and for that way ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; At Puppet, our mission is to help our customers deliver better software, faster. This mission reminds me of of a blog post from my esteemed colleagues at Zugata who build performance management software for performance reviews and employee performance development. The quote begins: “Keeping up with today’s rapid speed of business has been no easy feat for organizations. This changing paradigm has required them to adapt in a way never seen before—calling into question stale processes and lagging systems that no longer match the pace of change. This holds especially true for a ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Two new Puppet Supported modules make it possible to install, start managing, and deploy applications to a Kubernetes cluster in about 15 minutes.The modules –– puppetlabs/kubernetes and puppetlabs/helm –– turn the often harrowing job of deploying Kubernetes, an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, into a straightforward task. Anyone beginning or continuing a container or microservice environment can use the modules with Puppet or Puppet Enterprise 2015.2 and above.Supported Puppet modules are rigorously tested with Puppet Enterprise, maintained for the same lifecycle as Puppet Enterprise, and are ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Editor's note: Arik Hessendahl is a guest blogger covering PuppetConf.I’ve been a business journalist for more than 20 years, and I never get tired of the stories about how well-known companies are founded. It’s endlessly interesting how some of today’s most iconic brands and companies can trace their history to a single spark of thought in the mind of a founder. So it was with Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, who’s known for a small car company in Germany:“In the beginning, I looked around and could not find the car I'd been dreaming of: ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Managing complex IT systems is always a delicate balancing act for sysadmins — between getting the latest updates to take advantage of new features and bug fixes, as well as security updates, and keeping a stable system running without making any unnecessary changes. Add to this the often complex and time consuming change control procedures in place at many enterprises, and what develops is a situation where as long as there are no pressing problems, it is easier to leave production systems running the same versions of critical software until an upgrade is ... Read More