Ken Nalbone

About the Author:

Ken is an IT infrastructure professional with over 15 years experience. His areas of specialty are the software-defined data center and cloud technologies. In addition to being a writer for Gestalt IT, Ken is an Event Lead for the Cloud Field Day and Tech Field Day series of events.

Articles by Ken Nalbone

PathSolutions Helps Put the Data of Your Network to Good Use

March 4, 2019

Although infrastructure is beginning to disappear behind an API for use by development and systems teams alike, there is still a team or even a single person behind that API ensuring that operations are smooth and transparent for those who consume said infrastructure. Those individuals or teams are well served by new tools for old problems.

Service Mesh Adoption is Increasing. Is it Here to Stay?

March 1, 2019

Breaking and application into smaller components such as individual services or even as small as a function has provided the agility that developers needed to rapidly iterate their applications, but has resulted in an application architecture that is overall more complex. A service mesh allows development teams to define networking constructs such as load balancers, firewalls, and gateways programmatically

Are You Ready for the FinOps Revolution?

February 26, 2019

Cloud financial management company Cloudability has announced the formation of the non-profit FinOps foundation. The practice of optimizing cloud spending is here to stay and first person or group that can identify “a better way” to approach this challenge will dominate the conversation for years to come.

How Practical is it to Refactor a Monolithic Application in the Cloud Era?

February 19, 2019

Can and enterprise afford to change an entire application architecture from an all in one monolith to a cloud native application and risk the chance that the transition from old to new will disrupt business operations? Solo.io helps make enterprises make the transition gradually.

Forget Day 0, Tell Me About Days 1-365!

February 15, 2019

Tech marketing duo John Nicholson and Nigel Hickey of VMware presented at Tech Field Day and covered the life of a virtualization admin, all the way from day 0 through day 365 including issues of patching, support, and scaling.

With Ops, NanoVMs Seeks to Make Unikernels More Accessible

February 14, 2019

Despite the many advantages of running an application or service in a unikernel, many enterprises have been hesitant to adopt them due to the steep learning curve. To bridge this gap NanoVMs, a leader in the unikernel space, has released their open source Ops tool.

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