As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

Version 3.0 of Puppet Labs' configuration automation tool shines with speed boosts, orchestration improvements, and deeper support for Windows servers With virtualization driving the meteoric rise in ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

I design and build ethical hacking capture-the-flag scenarios at a small security shop. Our clients operate the infrastructure (all ESXi/vCenter), and we deliver the OVAs (the game "content" and the ...