Bitnami Stacksmith

In this illustrated white paper, you’ll learn how Bitnami’s flagship product, Stacksmith, modernizes your DevOps pipeline by automating the packaging of your applications for today's cloud and container platforms, and continuously maintain them so they stay up-to-date and secure.

Learn Stacksmith’s benefits for developers, IT ops, IT security, and DevOps teams, and how Bitnami Stacksmith is the simplest way to package applications and assets for today's cloud and container platforms, and automate the ongoing maintenance of these applications so they remain up-to-date and secure.

What is Stacksmith?

Bitnami Stacksmith is a single, standardized packaging and maintenance tool that generates deploy-ready, cloud-native assets in multiple formats for multiple cloud vendor platforms. Stacksmith provides two primary functions:

  • Automated packaging

Stacksmith’s automated packaging takes your assets – application code, configuration policies, and scripts - incorporates the platform dependencies, maps the cloud platform service integrations you specify (ie. Database), optimizes the results for your chosen platform(s), and delivers everything you will need to successfully deploy.

  • Ongoing maintenance

Stacksmith also simplifies the ongoing maintenance of your assets by continuously monitoring private repositories (for code, script or config policy updates) and trusted sites (for system package updates and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)), and providing manual (click ‘update’) and automated (supports continuous updating) methods for you to re-package your applications, ensuring they stay up-to-date and secure.

Bitnami now offers Stacksmith in three tiers:

  • Stacksmith Public - for individuals with open source projects and those using open source software. Free of charge.
  • Stacksmith Team – for groups to get applications packaged and in production, or get from VMs to containers, in a programmatic and cost-effective way. Starting at $800 per month.
  • Stacksmith Enterprise - for large organizations that require single-tenant delivery and directory integration. Contact us for pricing.

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The MSP’s 10-Point Guide to Success

Let’s face it. Not all small business owners are thrilled with the idea of moving their workloads to the cloud. They’ve invested a lot of money in their on-premises solutions and they really don’t see the need to change their infrastructure. They also have legitimate concerns about network security, downtime and availability. So, how do you convince them that it’s time to upgrade to a cloud platform like Microsoft Azure?

By presenting good arguments. We’ve prepared a simple guide that will help you get started. But first, we’d like to take a closer look at Microsoft Azure and the booming market for Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

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4 Great Ways to Make Your Customers Happy

In the eBook, Marketing Specialist Marc Gordon will give you four essential steps to selling happiness to your customers. With more than 25 years of experience in helping businesses grow, Gordon says you do not have to knock yourself out to get loyal customers. Just do the right things to keep them happy.

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Citrix Cloud Government Free Trial

Citrix Cloud Government platform empowers your agency to securely deliver apps and data to your workforce while improving IT efficiency and enhancing user experiences. Our cloud-based management platform—running on FedRAMP High Baseline certified government infrastructure as a service—enables you to leverage our industry-leading application and desktop virtualization technology on any government-grade infrastructure.

Citrix Cloud Government platform helps deploy, manage, and optimize virtual workloads in your data centers or on the government-grade infrastructure of your choice..

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Citrix Cloud Government

To meet always-evolving mission objectives, government agencies need IT flexibility and scalability. Citrix Cloud Government ensures access to high-performance IT resources by enabling agencies to deploy, manage, and optimize Citrix workspace solutions on any government-grade infrastructure.

It’s a cloud-based management platform that runs on FedRAMP High Baseline certified infrastructure—and it’s built to enable the simplicity, scalability, and performance your agency needs.

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The Cloud Security Platform

Healthcare is moving to the cloud and HIPPA regulations still apply. Two key challenges healthcare organizations have when moving to the cloud is preventing the accidental sharing of ePHI via cloud applications and the takeover of your user’s SaaS accounts by hackers due to phishing attacks. Avanan connects to any SaaS or IaaS in one click via API connection. Secure all of your cloud applications from business suites like Office 365, G-Suite, to Citrix ShareFile, and everything in between. With the click of a button, protect your enterprise Office 365, Box, G Suite, or any other SaaS application with cloud-based versions of security technology from best-of-breed vendors like Check Point, Symantec, and McAfee.

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HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud

Healthcare is migrating to the cloud, putting HIPAA regulations in a new context. Moving clinical and business data into Software as a Service (SaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) improves scalability, interoperability, and cost—but cloud adoption must not be at the expense of security or compliance.

This whitepaper identifies challenges of enforcing HIPAA compliance in the cloud, and offers technical solutions that address these requirements in order to provide lasting security for ePHI.

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Capital Caring: Anti Phishing Security for Healthcare Providers

Since 1977, Capital Caring has improved care for those facing life-limiting illness through public education, advocacy, and direct support of patients and their families. Over 650 employees and 850 volunteers offer hospice, palliative care, and counseling to more than a thousand patients and their families each day. They turned to Avanan to help stop email based phishing attacks that were targeting their O365 users.

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Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Dummies

Cloud computing is proliferating and taking over the world of IT as we know it. Cloud computing also grows more complex and multi‐faceted daily. Organizations can create their own private cloud infrastructures in‐house, sign up for services from public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, or create hybrid environments. Other vital choices come close behind. Architects and engineers must deal with an array of connections, integrations, portability issues among clouds, resource options, orchestration, storage, and more. And somehow it must all be managed and maintained.

You can probably see why a carefully thought‐out and detailed approach to cloud computing — a strategy, in other words — is so important.

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Hybrid Cloud Management for Dummies

We’re in the era of hybrid cloud, an integrated combination of public and private cloud environments. Most companies moving into the public cloud today are making strategic decisions about which applications should go to the cloud and which should stay on-premises. Get acquainted with hybrid cloud management strategies and solutions, and learn what critical components must be addressed as you plan your hybrid cloud environment.

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Can Machine Learning Prevent Application Downtime?

This research by Nimble Storage, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, outlines the top five causes of application delays. The report analyzes more than 12,000 anonymized cases of downtime and slow performance. Read this report and find out:

  • Top 5 causes of downtime and poor performance across the infrastructure stack
  • How machine learning and predictive analytics can prevent issues
  • Steps you can take to boost performance and availability

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The Importance of Flash Storage in a Hybrid IT World

It is possible that a significant number of people reading this piece may find themselves confused, or at least intrigued, by its title: “The Importance of Flash Storage in a Hybrid IT World.” Might it be that two separate white papers have been inadvertently muddled and integrated? After all, "hybrid IT" is about a sweeping strategic trend for the industry, whereas "flash storage" seems prosaically tactical. Also, while neither item is a market per se—flash is a storage media and hybrid IT is essentially a delivery and consumption construct—nonetheless there are absolute, direct, and valuable connections between the two that categorically need to be exposed, understood, and evaluated by any organization that is seeking to optimize itself...whether that optimization is from any mix of multiple perspectives—operations, applications, and finances.

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Why Flash Storage for Hybrid IT?

The term hybrid IT describes a delivery and consumption trend. Flash storage, on the other hand, describes a medium often delivered as a drive or as memory. Connections exist between them, though—important connections any IT organization hoping to optimize itself must understand.

Hybrid IT is marked by a mix of on- and off-prem resources, often with multiple deployment types and consumption modes. It tends to accompany other newer approaches: i.e., convergence efforts, software-defined system implementations, or modernized application rollouts. By leveraging hybrid IT, an organization can deliver services in a more optimized, balanced, automated, granular, and flexible fashion.

Therefore, hybrid IT—and the specific activities conducted in hybrid environments—demand flash storage. Different organizations, however, need different flash types, amounts, locations, and deployment processes.

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Invest in the right flash storage solution

You’re looking at flash storage because you see it’s taking the storage world by storm. You’re interested in accelerating business-critical applications, consolidating a virtual server or desktop deployment, trying to get ahead of your company’s data onslaught, or some combination of the above.

This easy-to-read guide was developed to help arm you with key considerations and questions to ask before investing in a flash storage array for your business today, and for the future.

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