Modern IT Culture: Granularity, Frequency and Automation
Many IT/R&D organizations have come to understand the advantages of continuous integration (CI), enabling the development and deployment of features and fixes in a more efficient manner. To...
View ArticleHow Scancafe, world’s #1 photo digitization service uses Ravello for snappy...
Scancafe is the world’s number one photo digitization and photo concierge service, with over 85 million images scanned. The company has global operations and logistics with employees across U.S.,...
View ArticleLegacy or Freedom to Choose? Running Solaris, *BSD and Windows XP on AWS
In the last decade, there has been a strong drive to consolidate the operating systems that are used in the enterprise. Many enterprises have selected modern versions of Windows and Enterprise Linux as...
View ArticleUsing the Cloud to Minimize UAT Pain
In the traditional enterprise, the production environment is typically located in on-premises data centers while some of the systems are developed or maintained by external system integrators or...
View ArticleModern Cloud-based Dev & Test for Enterprises
Cloud-based testing offers several advantages over the traditional on-premises testing lab. In the past, ideally, R&D or QA guys had their own setups. Aside from the man-hours required to set up...
View ArticleCloud-based Dev & Test For Enterprises: Agile and Elastic
Using the cloud for application testing has the potential to greatly accelerate and improve the product development process, saving time and money. The cloud offers virtually limitless resources. By...
View ArticleUsing Chef with Ravello Systems: Automatic Deployment of Chef Clients
In a Chef server/client configuration, the server stores the cookbooks (recipes), the policies and metadata that describe each registered node that is managed by the Chef client. The Chef client is...
View ArticleEnterprise Cloud Adoption and the Boiling Frog Syndrome
There is no doubt that cloud is an important resource for the enterprise CIO to use when building or extending their data centers. The cloud can be on-premises, within your colocation, or hosted by one...
View ArticleInstalling a Cloud VM from an ISO file using a CD-ROM device
We are happy to introduce a new functionality in Ravello – you can now attach a CD-ROM device to any VM in Ravello and run your ISO files. This functionality not only enables you to access and run...
View ArticleThe DevOps Fear Factor
DevOps is all the rage, with a lot of great stories out there about startups and larger web companies, such as Netflix, and the tremendous benefits they gain from it. The DevOps Fantasy In these...
View ArticleWhodini Elevates Its DevOps To The Next Level: From Automated Code Deployment...
Whodini is a Silicon Valley, CA based technology startup in the workforce analytics space. Whodini’s technology enables companies to turn unstructured conversational data to structured, usable decision...
View ArticleProviding External Access To An Application Through Elastic IP Addressing
We are happy to share a new way to access your Ravello applications through elastic IP addressing. Using elastic IP addresses, it is easy to support integration with various services within your...
View ArticleTrade-offs in Continuous Integration: Time, Coverage and Costs
Trade-offs are common in our lives. In fact, trade-offs are so common that it is the theme behind numerous proverbs such as “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”, “a bird in the hand is worth two...
View ArticleThe Art of Nested Virtualization
Technology, like any form of art, has a level of completeness. A point when you sense that it is done, that it is nice or even beautiful. In art, people look for symmetry or certain ratios, or colors...
View ArticleThe Modern Test Lab – Part 2, The 5 Main Building Blocks
Author note: The IT world is undergoing some major changes. The cloud is a great enabler for better delivery. In this series of posts we will discuss the basics of how to start and build the next...
View ArticleAndroid in the Cloud: Running KitKat on Amazon EC2
At Ravello Systems, our mission is to make the cloud look more like the datacenter. I have written about this many times, including on our advanced technology that makes this possible. In this blog,...
View ArticleDestination DevOps: The move towards next-gen cloud-based lab management
Software is eating the world. And enterprises are turning towards agile development and testing methodologies like never before. However, development and test infrastructure is not keeping pace with...
View ArticleThe Modern Test Lab, Part 3 – Build the Lab Team
The R&D team has undergone major changes in recent years. Flexibility, agility and speed are crucial for software delivery. These changes impact on the individual test lab member. The test or QA...
View ArticleCloud Networking: Layer 2 Access in Amazon EC2
At Ravello Systems, our mission is to make the cloud look more like the datacenter. We are very passionate about our mission, and went to great lengths to develop technology to realize it. After three...
View ArticleRavello + Google Cloud = Nirvana for DevOps and Full Stack Developers
We are very excited to announce beta availability of the Google Cloud Platform in Ravello. Now, full stack developers and DevOps practitioners can use the Google Cloud with Ravello to rapidly provision...
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