New Supermicro Rack Scale Design Brings Open Management for On-Demand Cloud Scale Data Centers

#Supermicro RSD Empowers Data Center Operators with Agility, Maximum Utilization and Future-Proof Infrastructure SAN JOSE, Calif., March 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in compute, storage and networking technologies including green computing, announces a new Rack Scale Design (RSD) solution that empowers cloud service providers, telecoms, and Fortune 500 companies to build their own agile, efficient, software-defined data centers. Supermicro RSD is a total solution comprised of Supermicro server/storage/networking hardware and an optimized rack level management software that represents a superset of the open source RSD software framework from Intel® and industry standard Redfish RESTful APIs developed by DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force). Supermicro RSD solves the hardware management and resource utilization challenges of data centers, large or small, often with tens of thousands of servers distributed in hundreds of racks using traditional 1-to-1 server management tool IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface). Designed with the whole rack as the new management unit in mind, Supermicro RSD leverages open Redfish APIs to support composable infrastructure and enable interoperability among potential RSD offerings from different vendors. With industry standard #Redfish APIs, #Supermicro RSD can be further integrated into data center automation software such as #Ansible, #Puppet or #privatecloud software such as #OpenStack or #VMware.

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Puppet adds two executives, hiring from Hewlett-Packard and EMC

Portland information technology company #Puppet said Tuesday it has hired two new executives and promoted several other employees.#HPE #EMC Former #HewlettPackardEnterprise vice president Omri Gazitt will be Puppet's first chief product officer. He joined HP in 2013 as director of the company's Seattle site and left in November as VP of a cloud computing group. Gazitt lives in Seattle and will work and travel from there.

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Puppet, CoreOS Roll New App Container Tools

The expanding application container and micro-services infrastructure got another boost this week with the introduction of a new set of tools for managing distributed software used to orchestrate micro-services.

Meanwhile, one of those software developers, #CoreOS, announced a new open source distributed storage system designed to provide scalable storage to clusters orchestrated by the Kubernetes container management platform.

#Puppet, the IT automation specialist based in Portland, Ore., recently released a suite of tools under the codename Project Blueshift that provides modules for running container software from CoreOS, #Docker and #Mesosphere along with #Google's (NASDAQ: GOOGL) #Kubernetes cluster manager. This week it released a new set of Docker images for running its software on the Docker Hub.

Puppet said its #Blueshift software tools could now be deployed and run on top of Docker. Running within the application container platform makes it easier to scale Puppet, the company said.

The company also unveiled a new agent to manage Linux virtual machines running on IBM (NYSE: IBM) z Systems and LinuxOne platforms. In addition, it announced new modules for IBM WebSphere application and integration middleware along with a module for supporting a Cisco System's (NASDAQ: CSCO) line of Nexus switches.

The modules are intended to automate IT management while speeding application deployment across hybrid cloud infrastructure, the company noted in a statement.

Puppet said its IBM Websphere module is available now, and a new agent with packages supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (NYSE: RHT) along with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and 12 would be available later this summer.

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2016/06/03/puppet-coreos-roll-new-app-container-tools/