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See what the analysts are saying about Cloudify in this recent report by Gary MacFadden, Principal Research Analyst at the Robert Frances Group. "A framework and approach that touches all the Cloud layers unifying the Cloud stack while ... [More] simultaneously simplifying DevOps is a compelling combination of capabilities.” Application owners eager to leverage the Cloud in order to realize faster time to business value are challenging their technology partners and IT organizations to be more agile, leaner and quicker to market. The time and resources needed to support the infrastructure for this new Cloud-based application delivery paradigm is why AWS and other so-called Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers have become so popular and profitable…. For those organizations responsible for supporting their own mission-critical applications and quickly bringing them to market, whether hosted privately, publicly or via a hybrid approach, a new more innovative approach is necessary. This need for speed to business value while maintaining control of a stable, repeatable deployment environment is the essence of Cloudify. Check out the full report to read more. [Less]

Check out slides from last week’s talk with the San Francisco DevOps meetup group. Cloudify’s DeWayne Filppi discussed an application-centric approach to DevOps to a packed house! An Application Centric Approach to Devops from dfilppi

Citrix released their CloudPlatform 4.3 this week, their CloudStack-based cloud infrastructure orchestration and provisioning platform. Cloudify partnered with CloudPlatform, and is now Citrix Ready, to provide CloudPlatform users a simple tool with ... [More] which to deploy, monitor, heal and scale their complex applications by automating their processes in the cloud. The combined solution now makes it possible for CloudPlatform users to build a hybrid cloud between CloudStack and other clouds for the purpose of cloud-bursting, business continuity and disaster recovery. This means that CloudPlatform users can extend their Cloudify deployments to other environments, including high performance environments, such as bare-metal and even non-virtualized environments. With this integration, users are also able to facilitate DevOps processes, as PaddyPower have, to speed up their development and deployment cycle. PaddyPower went through a complete cycle of moving into agile development as well as transforming their infrastructure into a cloud-based infrastructure based on CloudStack.  They did this by using Cloudify and Chef to run their DevOps automation and continuous delivery on top of CloudStack. For Cloudify users this means the very same applications can run on Cloudstack, while still maintaining all of the automation of post-deployment processes including auto-healing, auto-scaling, and more. Learn more about Cloud Platform 4.3 here. [Less]

We have three DevOps meetups coast to coast in the US and in Tel Aviv that will be extra super awesome with special sauce, so join us - wherever you are. San Francisco DevOps  Meetup: Beyond Infrastructure - Orchestrating the Entire Stack March 25th ... [More] | 7:00 PM | Pager Duty, 501 2nd Street, Suite 100, San Francisco When thinking about automation and orchestration most people have tools like CloudFormation, Chef or Puppet in mind. These tools do a great job at allocating infrastructure resources and configuring them. But in reality, when deploying and managing complete application stacks, there’s much more to it.In this session we’ll discuss what it takes to orchestrate and automate your applications through the entire lifecycle, and without losing control. Joint Meetup with Docker Tel Aviv: Linux Containers and the Future of Cloud  March 26th | 6:00PM | Klarna, Yigal Alon 98, 13th Floor, Tel Aviv  Lightweight process virtualization technology exists in Linux and other operating systems for many years. It has matured significantly in the recent year, and Linux containers, the topic of this lecture, are based on virtualized lightweight processes. This lecture will discuss the Linux kernel infrastructure for Linux containers as well as several interesting user space projects which use this technology. The DevOps PaaS Infusion: Deep Dive into Cloud Foundry PaaS April 10th | 7:00 PM | Work Bench, 110 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, NY Cloud Foundry is a Platform as a Service system that features a range of components which provide a faster and easier way to build, test, deploy and scale applications. Overview: IT departments and hosting providers are increasingly adopting Platform as a Service in response to developer demand. At this meetup, we’ll walk you through the most important elements and capabilities that make Cloud Foundry a first class citizen PaaS. [Less]

Cloudify’s Ali Hodroj gave a great talk at last night’s OpenStack NY meetup, talking about high availability and disaster recovery on OpenStack with Cloudify. Check out the slides from Ali’s presentation: Application-level Disaster Recovery on OpenStack from Ali Hodroj Find more information on Cloudify at www.cloudifysource.org

It’s that time of year again folks - the OpenStack Summit 2014 is coming, and community voting on content for the event has officially opened. Below are the links to vote on the Cloudify team’s submissions, feel free to vote on those you’d like to ... [More] hear most. You need to register for an OpenStack account, which you can do here, if you don’t already have one. Application Orchestration vs Infrastructure Orchestration (Speaker: Nati Shalom ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/application-orchestration-vs-infrastructure-orchestration Deployment Automation on OpenStack with TOSCA, Heat and Cloudify ( Speaker: Uri Cohen ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/deployment-automation-on-openstack-with-tosca-heat-and-cloudify Docker and Openstack orchestrating a mix of virtualizations models ( Speaker: Yaron Parasol ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/docker-and-openstack-orchestrating-a-mix-of-virtualizations-models OpenStack as a Foundation for NFV (Speaker: Nati Shalom ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-as-a-foundation-for-nfv Continuous integration from design to production of highly distributed applications using Docker, Openstack and TOSCA (Speaker: Yoram Weinreb ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/continuous-integration-from-design-to-production-of-highly-distributed-applications-using-docker-openstack-and-tosca Workflows from a TOSCA perspective ( Speaker: Idan Moyal ) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/workflows-from-a-tosca-perspective From Infrastructure to Proactive DevOps (Speakers: Uri Cohen, Nir Cohen) https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/from-infrastructure-to-proactive-devops Looking forward to seeing you all there! [Less]

In case you missed the OpenStack Online Meetup tonight with Uri Cohen, and Nati Shalom “Deployment Automation on OpenStack with TOSCA and Cloudify”below are the slides, and the recording. Don’t miss the upcoming OpenStack Public Training as ... [More] well - to learn about all things OpenStack with Florian Haas of hastexo! Deployment Automation on OpenStack with TOSCA and Cloudify from cloudifysource [Less]

Google+ Hangout: Deployment Automation on #OpenStack with #TOSCA and Cloudify: rafstack: Please register for our OpenStack Online Meetup February 6th, 9.00 - 10.00 am PST (UTC-8 hrs). TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud ... [More] Applications) is an emerging standard for modeling complete application stacks and automating their deployment and management. It’s been… [Less]

We have quite a bit of OpenStack excitement going on that you won’t want to miss. Next Thursday, 9:00 AM PST, join us for the OpenStack Online Meetup, where we’ll be discussing - Deployment Automation on OpenStack with TOSCA and Cloudify TOSCA ... [More] (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) is an emerging standard for modeling complete application stacks and automating their deployment and management. It’s been discussed in the context of OpenStack for quite some time, mostly around Heat. In this session we’ll discuss what TOSCA is all about, why it makes sense in the context of OpenStack, and how we can take it farther up the stack to handle complete applications, both during and after deployment, on top of OpenStack. Learn more at meetup.com. And the OpenStack Israel Public Training with Florian Haas is officially open for registration, with only a select few early bird spots still open. For more information and to register visit the OpenStack Israel website. [Less]

We had a great time with the Chef-NYC user group at last week’s meetup on app-centric DevOps!  Couldn’t make the meetup? Not to worry! We’ve got the slides right here. Big thanks to the Chef-NYC meetup team for sharing our story with the community! Check out Cloudify for more information about orchestration and DevOps automation in the cloud.