Things you MUST know before you deploy OpenStack
Recently, our Catalyst Cloud GM Bruno Lago was in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. He talked to attendees about what he's learned getting the Catalyst Cloud up and running....
New Catalyst Moodle Plugin - Outage Manager
Planned outages are a necessary evil.
As a Moodle Partner, we manage hosting and support for our enterprise Moodle clients.
Some of these clients receive millions of page...
Upcoming changes to cloud object storage
The Catalyst Cloud object storage service is about to get even better. It will replicate your objects across regions and introduce features that are very useful for web...
Burning Samba with perf and FlameGraph
Samba implements many things, but in this case we look at Samba as an Active Directory DC.
In that role, Samba now has a quite credible implementation of the required protocols...
Recurring Payments with Drupal Commerce and PayPal
During the build of one our Catalyst as-a-Service offerings – CourseBank – we implemented a recurring credit card billing solution, which allows customers to fully provision a...
7 Themes of Catalyst
OS//OS Talk – 7 Themes of Catalyst
I gave a talk at the second Open Source Open Society conference in Wellington recently. I was asked to talk about how Catalyst had grown and...
Australian Moodle Moot 2016
There’s a lot happening in the education technology conference space in the next few months. Here at Catalyst we are passionate about all things elearning, so we are always keen...
The Great Cloud Debate - Aug 2016
Last night I was fortunate enough to attend the Docker Meetup Groups event. Docker in this case being the forum for a cloud-centric discussion -- The Big...
Catalyst's SAML Authentication Moodle Plugin
In Catalyst’s capacity as a Moodle Partner, we do a lot of work in the identity and authentication integration space. This means integrating Moodle and other existing...
Bleeding Edge Chat
Traditionally Catalyst has been a huge user of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for our internal chat and private messaging requirements. IRC is a big part of the way that Catalyst...
Pe5ky P@ssword$
A password needs to be easily remembered but hard to guess – seems conflicting right? The trick with making a good password is to have it so specific to you, that no one will be...
KohaCon16 – Chris Cormack's experience
In the beautiful city of Thessaloniki, Greece, 252 people attended KohaCon16 from 30th May to 4th June.
The conference attracts people from all around the world, who all share...
