[ Update– April 7: i5 config now available] [Update — March 28: Precision 7510 and 7710 now available] Today I am excited to announce the worldwide launch of the Precision line of Ubuntu-based workstations along with the US launch of the 5th generation of the XPS 13 developer edition. Part of Project Sputnik, these systems began…
As we get ready to launch the 5th generation of the XPS 13 developer edition and our expanded line of Ubuntu-based Precision workstations, I wanted to provide a look back. Below is a video of a presentation I delivered last month at the UbuCon summit. UbuCon was a part of the the Southern California Linux…
I’ve been in New York the last couple of days and this morning, before I left, I was able to check out Pivotal Labs’ NYC offices. Pivotal’s New York office is one of 17 labs around the world, a number which will be growing to ~25 by the end of the year. At the Labs,…
A little while ago I put together a short presentation intended to provide a high-level overview of the wild and wacky world of DevOps, Microservices and Containers. I present this deck both internally and externally to give folks an overview of what is happening in IT today. For your reference, I have added the speaker…
A couple weeks ago when Silicon Valley-based Darius Goodall and Cliff Wichmann made the pilgrimage out to Austin I grabbed some time with them to learn about the recently announced OS 10. Darius heads up the DevOps and tech partner ecosystem in Dell’s networking group while Cliff is the software architect for OS 10. Take…
As we’ve talked about before, a few of us in Dell’s CTO group have recently been working with our friends at Joyent. This effort is a part of the consideration of platforms capable of intelligently deploying workloads to all major infrastructure flavors – bare-metal, virtual machine, and container. Today’s post on this topic comes to us complements of Glen…
Last week I flew out to sunny California to participate in SCaLE 14x and the UbuCon summit. As the name implies this was the 14th annual SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) and, as always, it didn’t disappoint. Within SCaLE was the UbuCon summit which focused on what’s going on within the Ubuntu community and how to better the community. While…
Here is our third and final post walking through the setting up of the Joyent Triton platform in the Dell CTO lab. In the first post, Don Walker of the CTO office gave an overview of what we were doing and why. The second laid out the actual components and configuration of the platform. Today’s video…
Continuing from the previous post, here is a more detailed explanation of the Joyent Triton platform we set up in the CTO lab. Triton is Joyent’s elastic container infrastructure that runs on their cloud, a private cloud or both. The idea behind setting up this instance is, working with Joyent, to learn about the platform. The next step…
A while back I tweeted how we had begun setting up a mini-instance of Joyent’s Triton in our Dell CTO lab. Triton is Joyent’s elastic container infrastructure that runs on their cloud, a private cloud or both. This cloud platform includes OS and machine virtualization (e.g. Docker with regards to the former and typical VMs under KVM…
Last, but not least in my KubeCon video-palooza series is an interview with RackN founder, Rob Hirschfeld. Rob talks about their offering Digital Rebar and how it addresses composable operations. Some of the ground Rob covers How he’s taking what he did at Dell (Crowbar) and taking it beyond physical provisioning and automation. V3 is now…
Today’s post is the penultimate video in my series of interviews from KubeCon back in November. Below, Aaron Bell, the product manager working on developer facing tools, talks about the Mesos project and Mesosphere — what they do and who’s using it. Some of the ground Aaron covers How mesosphere is connected to the Apache Mesos…
Continuing with my videos from KubeCon, here is a chat ClusterHQ’s founder and CTO, Luke Marsden. Luke explains Flocker, how its being used and talks about the Dell/Flocker driver. Some of the ground Luke covers What is Flocker (hint: a way to connect the container universe to the storage universe) Why you don’t want containers…
With today’s post we are five interviews into the videos I took at Kubecon with three remaining. Today’s interviewee is Rob Szumski, one of the early employees of CoreOS. Rob explains CoreOS, Tectonic and where CoreOS is going from here. Some of the ground Rob covers CoreOS began as an operating system for large scale clusters and…
While I was in San Francisco back in November, I stopped by Joyent’s headquarters. The main purpose was to talk about the Docker/Triton platform we are setting up in the CTO lab. While I was there I chatted with Joyent’s Casey Bisson, director of product management. Casey took me through a couple of white board sessions…
Here’s another interview from KubeCon back in November. This one’s a twofer. Joyent’s CEO and CTO, Scott Hammond and Bryan Cantrill respectively, talk about taking their learnings from Solaris zones and applying them to the world of modern apps and containers. Some of the ground Scott and Bryan cover Joyent, a software company focused on delivering…
Im just getting around to publishing my interviews from KubeCon back in November Today’s interview features Red Hat’s Grant Shipley, director of developer advocacy for “container application platform” OpenShift. Grant talks about the launching of OpenShift v3.1 and what’s ahead. Some of the ground Grant covers: Announcing 3.1, the latest upstream version of Red Hat’s open source project OpenShift…
Although it may be a bit self-indulgent, I’d like to kick off 2016 with a look back on my blog stats for 2015. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 250,000 times in…
A couple of weeks ago I attended KubeCon in San Francisco. There were a series of talks as well as a bunch of vendors who were there in mini-booths chatting with folks and showing off what they do. As always, the part I get the most out of at conferences like this is the “hallway track”…
About a year ago Senior Linux engineer Jose De la Rosa had heard so much Docker and container-mania that he thought he’d find out what the fuss was all about. Jose started looking around for an app within Dell that he could containerize and came across Dell’s OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). In case you’re wondering, OMSA is an in house…