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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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: 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
