“DevOps“, that infamous “word” that has been circling the IT community for many years now. What is it? Why do I care? Most will say DevOps is a fantasy world where developers and operations teams are BFFs, they sing ‘Kumbaya’ at their weekly double rainbow viewing parties while happily playing ping pong during which time …

In this post I will make my case for taking an honest look at HCI versus a 3-tier infrastructure. The aim here is to be objective and to provide a fair and balanced view of each architecture to allow for an honest comparison when reviewing how the future of your datacenter will be architected.Figure 1: …