Lifecycle and Operational Management Orchestration Case Studies

Lifecycle and Operational Management Orchestration

An international Telecommunications provider requires an Orchestration solution to perform a range of lifecycle and operational management functions. One of our overseas customers has requested…

Aptira11/07/2019

Solutionaut Anniversaries Company Updates

Solutionaut Anniversaries

This week 2 of our Solutionauts are celebrating their Aptira anniversaries - Lei and Ankit. So we thought we'd tell you a little bit about…

Jessica Field10/07/2019

Swinburne Ceph Deployment Case Studies

Swinburne Ceph Deployment

Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public University based in Melbourne, Victoria. They need to set up a massive (think petabyte) storage system for their researchers to store…

Aptira09/07/2019

Ansible Automation and Deployment Training

Ansible Automation and Deployment

Everyone knows that the right tool for the trade makes work a whole lot easier. It’s a bonus for us when that tool is Open…

Jessica Field08/07/2019

Visualising Prometheus Data in Grafana Technical Documentation

Visualising Prometheus Data in Grafana

Grafana is a graphing, dashboarding and alerting tool which can take data from a large number of sources and can send alerts to various locations…

Aptira05/07/2019

Prometheus Exporters Technical Documentation

Prometheus Exporters

Now that Prometheus has been installed and configured, we’ll discuss some of the Exporters. In Prometheus, the data providers (agents) are called Exporters. You can…

Aptira04/07/2019

Monitoring your Infrastructure with Prometheus Technical Documentation

Monitoring your Infrastructure with Prometheus

Prometheus is an open source, next-generation monitoring and time series system that collects metrics from agents running on target hosts, storing the collected data onto…

Aptira03/07/2019

Designing Cloud Architecture for High Performance GPU-powered Desktops Case Studies

Designing Cloud Architecture for High Performance GPU-powered Desktops

A local University with a strong research focus had initiated a successful pilot project to bring remote, on-demand, interactive graphically intensive computing environments to a…

Aptira02/07/2019

Bare Metal High Performance Computing (HPC) Case Studies

Bare Metal High Performance Computing (HPC)

One of our customers is facing a problem with efficiently provisioning bare metal servers to their High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. This challenge involved provisioning…

Aptira01/07/2019

EOFY Deals Ending Soon Training

EOFY Deals Ending Soon

ICYMI, We’re offering End of Financial Year discounts on all of our training courses, including:  Discounts for Multiple Courses Discounts for Pre-Payment Discounts for Training Bundled with Software Discounts for…

Jessica Field28/06/2019

OpenStack Rules: How OpenVswitch works inside OpenStack OpenStack DocumentationTechnical Documentation

OpenStack Rules: How OpenVswitch works inside OpenStack

Understanding OpenFlow rules OpenVswitch (OVS) is a virtual switch that connects virtual machines together using virtual links and ports. Traditionally this would be done by…

Farzaneh Pakzad27/06/2019

How To Hybrid Cloud Training

How To Hybrid Cloud

Different organisations have unique experiences with their Cloud implementations. And no two organisations are the same. They range in size and the extent of their…

Jessica Field26/06/2019

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Service Function chaining using Cloudify Case Studies

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Service Function chaining using Cloudify

The linkage of network functions to form a service is often a very complex procedure. We were asked to validate service function chaining on a…

Aptira25/06/2019

Orchestrating and Managing a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) using a Cloudify Service Orchestrator Case Studies

Orchestrating and Managing a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) using a Cloudify Service Orchestrator

A use case that is often requested by our customers is managing and orchestrating a Wide Area Network Software Defined Network (WAN-SDN) in order to…

Aptira24/06/2019

Kubernetes Training: Prep for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam Training

Kubernetes Training: Prep for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Exam

Kubernetes: Container Orchestration for Modern Applications Container Orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes provide users with greater flexibility when running applications on both virtual infrastructure and…

Jessica Field21/06/2019

Platform Auto Remediation with Zenoss Case Studies

Platform Auto Remediation with Zenoss

One of our Telecommunications customers operated an existing platform and had identified that there was a high load on the operations team who were detecting…

Aptira20/06/2019

How to Install ONAP on Kubernetes using Cloudify Technical Documentation

How to Install ONAP on Kubernetes using Cloudify

This “How to Install ONAP on Kubernetes using Cloudify” tutorial covers the process required to install a Kubernetes cluster using the Cloudify orchestrator and installing ONAP atop the…

Aptira19/06/2019

DevOps Training: Tools and Practices Training

DevOps Training: Tools and Practices

DevOps: Make Your Job Easier We live in a world of software-defined everything. Our enterprise customers know that innovative applications of software are critical for…

Jessica Field18/06/2019

Evaluating Red Hat and Mirantis OpenStack for Nokia Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Case StudiesOpenStack

Evaluating Red Hat and Mirantis OpenStack for Nokia Virtual Network Functions (VNF)

One of Australia’s leading service providers is moving their network operations to OpenStack, and would like us to evaluate Telco workloads on their internal cloud…

Aptira17/06/2019

Ceph Training + Software Licence Discounts Training

Ceph Training + Software Licence Discounts

Ceph Storage Solutions We love Ceph. We've used it for several projects recently, including to build a very high-performing and scalable storage landscape for the…

Jessica Field14/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 6 – Systems Integration Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 6 – Systems Integration

In the last post we described DevOps and how it drive highly performant and reliable systems with openness and flexibility. In this post we complete…

Aptira13/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 5 – DevOps Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 5 – DevOps

In the last post, we completed our description of Agile methods, and how they enable Open Networking solutions. In this post we move on to…

Aptira12/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 4 – Making Open Networking Projects Agile Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 4 – Making Open Networking Projects Agile

In the previous post we looked the difference between “Being Agile” and “Doing Agile”. In this latest post on Agile Methods, we look at what…

Aptira11/06/2019

OSN-Day Community Updates

OSN-Day

The Open Networking technology landscape has evolved quickly over the last two years. How can Telco's keep up? Our team of Network experts have used…

Jessica Field09/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 3 – Being Agile Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 3 – Being Agile

In the last post we introduced the Agile approach and gave a brief history with a current status, which is pretty messy. How do we…

Aptira07/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 2 – Introduction to Agile Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 2 – Introduction to Agile

In the last post we gave an overview of the Open Network Integration domain. In this post we start by doing a deep-dive into Agile…

Aptira06/06/2019

Open Network Integration. Part 1 – The Tip of the Spear Thoughts

Open Network Integration. Part 1 – The Tip of the Spear

Following our Software Interlude posts, which we completed with this post on Development Paradigms, we now move on to unpacking the the third and last…

Aptira05/06/2019

Generic API Translation Technical Documentation

Generic API Translation

One of the key aspects of designing modern applications is to have an interface defined as Application Programming Interfaces (API) that allows businesses to securely…

Aptira03/06/2019

Virtual Network Function Orchestration (NFVO) using Cloudify Case Studies

Virtual Network Function Orchestration (NFVO) using Cloudify

One of our customers was building a greenfield Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVi) platform on a private Cloud with a full-stack configuration. The NFVi platform…

Aptira31/05/2019

Segment Routing in Software Defined Networking Wide Area Networks (SDN-WAN) Case Studies

Segment Routing in Software Defined Networking Wide Area Networks (SDN-WAN)

While Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Virtualisation are becoming more and more popular amongst both academia and industry, there are still many challenges unsolved. One…

Aptira30/05/2019