Written by Billy Downing Every organization is being asked about their cloud strategy and how it will impact their business outcomes. Several organizations are unsure how to accomplish a cloud migration without incurring incredible costs.
North Sioux City, SD, March 17, 2020 — Sterling, a technology solutions provider, announced today that it has successfully achieved its second VMware Master Services Competency, this one in Network Virtualization. This competency demonstrates Sterling’s commitment to helping organizations accelerate their digital transformations by leveraging their validated services delivery capabilities
North Sioux City, SD, March 16, 2020 – Sterling, a leader in secure technology solutions, is fully capable and prepared to offer our customers complete customized solutions from Client to Cloud. Sterling provides our customers with simple client products all the way to curated multi-cloud solutions. These solutions allow us
Written By Nathan Bennett For the automation operator that utilizes vRealize Automation, 8.0 was a huge update. Moving away from those dreaded IAAS components built on Windows made everyone cheer. Unfortunately, what we found on the other side of 7.6 was an empty house that once held many functions we
Written By Nathan Bennett The announcement of Project Pacific last year at VMworld came to the surprise of engineers around the world. Project Pacific, in a nutshell, is the deployment of Kubernetes within vSphere and the solution to deploy Kubernetes clusters on vSphere hypervisor. From the customer perspective, there were
Written By Nathan Bennett Tuesday, VMware announced a vSphere with built in Kubernetes solution. This allows their hypervisor access to Kubernetes clusters with built in operations to run and manage those solutions. They are making this change for a good reason. Businesses want their applications to run better, and the
North Sioux City, SD, March 11, 2020 – Sterling, an award-winning, industry-leading technology solutions provider, has appointed Mr. Chris Cyr to the role of Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Cyr joins Sterling after five years at Oracle, where he served as the Enterprise Cloud Architect and founding member of the Cloud
Written By Billy Downing Cloud Native Application Architecture As previously discussed in Cloud Native Development On-Prem – Container Orchestration, our application is now broken into separate, independently ran services residing within containers and deployed by Kubernetes. However now that our application is broken into micro services, we need to build
Written By Billy Downing What are Containers and why are they synonymous with Cloud Native Applications? Containers are packaged software which include all dependencies while providing abstraction from underlying infrastructure. Containers sound similar to virtual machines with a distinct difference in where the abstraction occurs. Within virtual machines, hardware is
Written By Billy Downing What is a Cloud Native Application? Cloud native application development is the method of breaking down workloads into business logic processes which can then be abstracted from infrastructure, observed with granularity, and deployed rapidly. This does not necessarily mean cloud native applications are required to run