Guest: Rob Hirschfeld (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Company: RackN (Twitter)
Show: To The Point
Keyword: Infrastructure as code (IaC) 

RackN recently announced the release of Digital Rebar v4.9. It has many new features, but there is one feature that RackN Co-Founder and CEO Rob Hirschfeld is excited about. “I’m really excited with the way we’ve been approaching multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. We’ve had capabilities to integrate things like Terraform and Ansible for a long time. Now we’ve added these concepts called resource brokers and clusters,” says Hirschfeld. “Instead of having to worry about a machine, which is not a construct that most people want to deal with, our users are actually able to start working at a cluster level and they have an API for clusters where they can drive operations for a whole cluster of machines.”

About Rob Hirschfeld: Rob has been in the cloud and infrastructure space for 20 years and has done everything from start-ups working with early ESX betas to serving four terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board and as an executive at Dell. As leader on the2030.cloud, he believes that the technology of running data centers and applications on cloud is just part of the bigger story. He trained as an Industrial Engineer and carries a passion for applying Lean and Agile processes to software delivery. Rob has received degrees from Duke University and Louisiana State University.

About RackN: RackN was founded with the vision of operators working together to improve IT operations through shared software and community regardless of infrastructure type. The company believes that operators should be able to maintain control, consistency and choice over their infrastructure without requiring prescriptive appliances or managed offerings.