Graeme Miller

June 20, 2017

AMP Release 4.6

Graeme Miller

June 20, 2017

Amp 4.6 was released on June 13th with some new and improved features. In this post we will do a brief overview of them and why they are a great addition to AMP.

Morgan Wright

June 2, 2017

Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Management Platforms Names Cloudsoft as a Representative Vendor

Morgan Wright

June 2, 2017

Gartner Research VP’s Dennis Smith and Milind Govekar just published a Market Guide for Cloud Management Platforms(April 2017) and we are pleased to see Cloudsoft AMP included as a representative vendor. In the report Smith and Govekar explain the value that Multifunctional Tools, Cloud Management Platforms(CMPs)...

Morgan Wright

May 25, 2017

TMForum Live 2017!

Morgan Wright

May 25, 2017

Just off of TM Forum Live 2017 we are overjoyed to announce that we have received an Outstanding Achievement Catalyst award for "Smart City on Edge"! Cloudsoft participated with BT, Cloudsoft, EXFO, Infonova/BearingPoint and our Champions: Agile Fractal Grid, Dublin City and Milton Keynes.

Murdo Aird

April 28, 2017

ServiceNow and Cloudsoft AMP

Murdo Aird

April 28, 2017

Together they demonstrate that ITSM is DevOps best practice. No one in IT can have failed to notice the ServiceNow juggernaut. As of late 2016, ServiceNow has more than 2,500 customers, of which 735 are Global 2000 businesses. This equates to an installed base of more than...

Murdo Aird

April 20, 2017

Introducing Cloudsoft AMP Bot for ChatOps

Murdo Aird

April 20, 2017

ChatOps has been around for awhile now but it is still a method of working, communicating and collaborating that likely means different things to different people. This blog provides a Cloudsoft perspective on ChatOps and how it relates to deploying and managing applications in/across hybrid clouds...

Duncan Johnston-Watt

April 18, 2017

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric on an IBM Bluemix Kubernetes Cluster with Cloudsoft AMP

Duncan Johnston-Watt

April 18, 2017

At this year’s Open Technology Summit at IBM InterConnect IBM Fellow, VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform Jason McGee gave us a sneak preview of the beta release of the IBM Bluemix Container Service which was formally announced the following day during the IBM InterConnect keynote...

Scott Hartzel

April 5, 2017

Montlake: Application Blueprinting in More Detail

Scott Hartzel

April 5, 2017

This is a follow up to my previous post Not all blueprints are equal where we introduced, under the Montlake moniker, a project comparing and contrasting different ways of creating application blueprints. Here we drill-down on the modelling, deployment and in-life management...

Scott Hartzel

March 30, 2017

Not all blueprints are equal

Scott Hartzel

March 30, 2017

Application blueprinting is a simple enough concept: capture your application model as code and deploy that model to clouds or platforms of your choice. Infrastructure as code gives you the opportunity to leverage all the best practices of traditional software development...

Morgan Wright

March 12, 2017

AMP 4.3 now available from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Morgan Wright

March 12, 2017

Put your application first with application-centric automation and portability - get yours today from Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Manage digital transformation across any infrastructure with Cloudsoft AMP...

Robert Moss

March 9, 2017

Deploying a LAMP Stack Application with Cloudsoft AMP

Robert Moss

March 9, 2017

The most common application stack for the web is the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). Cloudsoft AMP makes deploying such applications using cloud providers such as AWS, IBM Bluebox, or Microsoft Azure easy...

Robert Moss

March 8, 2017

Deploying a MEAN Stack Application with Cloudsoft AMP

Robert Moss

March 8, 2017

Deploying applications to the cloud can be tricky, especially when there are moving parts. A common requirement for modern webapp development is to use the MEAN Stack (Mongo, Angular, Express and NodeJS). With Cloudsoft AMP you can...

Mike Zaccardo

March 7, 2017

Cloudsoft AMP + VEXXHOST: A Success Story

Mike Zaccardo

March 7, 2017

Earlier this week our fearless leader Duncan Johnston-Watt asked my teammate Andrea Turli and I to investigate deploying applications onto Vexxhost (an OpenStack cloud computing provider) with AMP. Short story even shorter, it was dead easy. Here’s all it took...

Mike Zaccardo

February 16, 2017

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric on Kubernetes with Cloudsoft AMP

Mike Zaccardo

February 16, 2017

Cloudsoft AMP has long-standing support for deploying Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) onto a cluster of VMs running Docker in the cloud, but we’ve taken it one step further: now you can deploy HLF onto Kubernetes, one of the most promiment container management solutions available today...

Geoff Macartney

February 9, 2017

AMP Network Security

Geoff Macartney

February 9, 2017

An important part of the production deployment of an application is locking down access to all components of the application to just the clients which should be able to access them. Typically this is done using something like...

Svetoslav Neykov

February 8, 2017

Apache Brooklyn 0.10.0 released

Svetoslav Neykov

February 8, 2017

As the release manager for the 0.10.0 release it's my pleasure to introduce you to the latest and greatest new features of Apache Brooklyn. A lot of hard work went into this release making it well worth the wait. Big thanks to our community for the effort, support and contributions to the project. Here are the highlights...

Murdo Aird

December 23, 2016

Reliable Continuous Delivery with Cloudsoft AMP Blueprints

Murdo Aird

December 23, 2016

One of the questions we at Cloudsoft are often asked is “how do I use blueprints in CI/CD?” Well, we don’t know. We don’t know your environments or goals or constraints and those all matter. There are many, many ways blueprints are useful in a continuous delivery pipeline...

Alex Heneveld

December 20, 2016

The Open Service Broker API and Why it Matters

Alex Heneveld

December 20, 2016

The Cloud Foundry Foundation has publicly launched the Open Service Broker API project (OSB) last week, and though I was dubious at first, my colleague Robert Moss has made me a convert. The past five years has brought incredible change to application architecture...

Andrew Kennedy

December 12, 2016

OpenShift and Cloudsoft AMP

Andrew Kennedy

December 12, 2016

Cloudsoft AMP makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes. This blog post shows how this process can be performed simply, reliably and repeatedly. We will demonstrate the deployment of applications to an OpenShift Origin cluster, using blueprints to...

Ross Gray

December 7, 2016

Cloudsoft in IBM Blockchain Ecosystem

Ross Gray

December 7, 2016

We are delighted that today IBM announced Cloudsoft as an IBM Blockchain Ecosystem Participant. The Cloudsoft Blockchain Service is available via the IBM Marketplace and from GET HLF. On Demand Blockchain Network: Cloudsoft Blockchain Service lets developers focus on creating chaincode applications, not the plumbing...

Mike Zaccardo

December 7, 2016

Hyperledger Member Summit and more exciting Cloudsoft/Hyperledger news

Mike Zaccardo

December 7, 2016

Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is quickly becoming one of the hottest endeavors in the blockchain world. Cloudsoft is proud to have joined the Hyperledger Project, and we will be attending the annual Member Summit for the first time this week in Brooklyn. Given the growing relevance of the Hyperledger Project...