Container Orchestration for Modern Applications Platforms such as Docker have provided users with greater flexibility when running applications on both virtual infrastructure and physical hardware. They are extremely lightweight and efficient, meaning your services can easily be packed up, moved between environments and switched between testing and production. However, once your environment starts to grow and involves multiple containers on multiple hosts, things can start to get a little tricky.  This is where Kubernetes comes in. Kubernetes is specifically designed for deploying and ..read more

Aptira previously built a scalable sack storage solution for Santa. While the sack storage has been reliable, Santa wanted to offer a virtual chimney-drop user experience for families worldwide on top of this on-sack-premises storage. The Challenge Aptira worked to improve access to the sack storage in a number of ways: Improve ease-of-use and features for Santa’s Helpers: the traditional sack storage protocols offered by the original design were not readily accessible by less technical elves. Santa wanted to make storage available to a broader cohort of Santa’s helpers by ad ..read more

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The previous Software Defined Networking (SDN) in this series might help users and organisations to choose a right SDN controller for their platform that matches their network infrastructure and requirements. These controllers could be a suitable choice to be used in Communication Service Providers (CSP), data centers, research or suitable choice for integration with other platforms. However, with the current IT market, organisations are moving towards migrating their old infrastructure to the Cloud and cloudifying every part of their infra ..read more

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 Software Defined Networking techniques for many different use cases, including: Traffic Engineering, Segment Routing, Integration and Automated Traffic Engineering and many more, addressing many of the key challenges associated with networks; including security, volume and flexibility concerns to provide customers with an uninterrupted user experience. At OSN Day, we will be helping attendees t ..read more

Final days to claim our Birthday Special! Incase you missed it, on the 9th of the 9th 2019, we turned 10! So until the 10th of the 10th, we’re offering 10% off all our services. That’s 10% off managed services, 10% off training, 10% off everything except hardware. This 10% discount also applies to pre-paid services, so you can pre-pay for the next 12 months to really maximise your savings! We’re also offering a free 2 hour consulting session to help get you started with transforming your Cloud solution. This offer is ending soon, so chat wi ..read more

Coming Soon: Open Source Networking Days Australia Open Source Networking Day Australia is a one-day mini-summit hosted by Telstra and co-organized by LF Networking (LFN) and Aptira. This is the first time that LFN has brought an open source networking event to Australia and it will be a unique opportunity to connect and collaborate with like-minded community members that are passionate about open source networking. The event will bring together service providers, the developer community, industry partners and academia for a day of collabor ..read more

In our last post we finished up a detailed examination of different aspects of Interoperability. In this post, we will analyse the different mindsets between traditional networking domains and software development domains, explain why there is often built-in dissonance. Background Whilst Open Network solutions require the integration of network and software components and practices, at the current time (and historically) these two domains are largely incompatible. Unless carefully managed this incompatibility will cause ..read more

In our last post we looked at different general patterns of standards compliance in Open Network solutions. In this post we drill down another layer to look at interoperability at the Application Program Interface (API) level, which creates issues at a level beyond standards. Background As we’ve mentioned previously, network equipment has been focused on interface compatibility and interoperability for many decades and has a history of real interoperability success. Traditional networks exposed communications interfaces ..read more

In our last post we unpacked Interoperability, including Open Standards. Continuing this theme, we will look at how solution developers implement standards compliance and the problems that arise. Introduction Mandating that vendors (and internal systems) comply with Open Standards is a strategy used by organisations to drive interoperability. The assumption is that Open Standards compliant components will be interoperable. In this post we examine the many reasons why that assumption does not always hold in real-world si ..read more