Lee Calcote is the Head of Technology Strategy at SolarWinds, where he stewards strategy and innovation across the business. Previously, Calcote led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, up-leveling the systems portfolio by delivering new predictive analytics, telemetric and modern management capabilities. Prior to Seagate, Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.

Microservices: The More the Merrier or Meshy-er?
Microservices are here and the size of their deployment is growing. As discussed in Part 1 of our series, “Containers and Functions: Leveraging Ephemeral Infrastructure Effectively,” a successful journey through adoption of ...

Containers and Functions: Leveraging Ephemeral Infrastructure Effectively
With containers, microservices and functions interweaving through modern application design, diligence is necessary to make sure you’re successfully navigating when to use containers and functions as application packaging technologies and how to ...

Automation and Orchestration in a Container World
Since Docker began popularizing containers about five and a half years ago, this technology has become a key element of digital business transformation. Characteristics such as portability, highly efficient sharing of system ...