Author: Barton George
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Nutanix and Dell’s Web-scale converged appliance
Here is my final post from Dell World. Today’s interview is with Nikita Maheshwari, product marketing manager with Nutanix. I caught up with Nikita on the show floor in front of their booth. I got her to give a brief overview of the company and what they announced with Dell at the show. Check it out. Some…
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Learning about Dell’s OpenStack private cloud offering
The week before last I was roaming the expo floor at Dell World and I bumped into Steve Croce. Steve is at Dell and is the product manager and strategist for our OpenStack private cloud offering. I got Steve to spend a few minutes with me and give me the lowdown on what we are offering…
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Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
The next interview in my series from Dell World features Julio Tapia of Red Hat. Julio is a global director for Red Hat’s platform as a service, OpenShift. I got Julio to give me a quick overview of OpenShift, where Dell plays and what they are planning going forward. Some of the ground Julio covers…
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Talking to Red Hat about how they are working with Dell on OpenStack
Last week I participated in Dell World with my trusty Flipcam (yes, I still have one, if it ain’t broke…) and caught a bunch of interviews. Several, not surprisingly, dealt with the cloud space. The first of these is with Red Hat Sr. Solution Architect, Ian Pilcher who was on the expo floor. Ian was…
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Dell Cloud Marketplace launches public Beta
Today at Dell world, we are rolling out the public beta of the Dell Cloud Marketplace. The marketplace, which is targeted at both sys admins and developers, allows you to set-up, manage, monitor and pay for a variety of cloud services in a self-service model. The IaaS platforms available at launch are provided by Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud…
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Dell Does Digital, unveils Digital Business Services line
Last year at Dell World we talked about our approach to Digital Transformation. This year however we have put it front and center and the theme is woven throughout the show. Today at Dell World, supporting this increased focus, Dell Services is unveiling a new dedicated service line called Digital Business Services (DBS). This service line…
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Chatting with the leaders of Major League Hacking
The weekend before last, the Major League Hacking crew helped put on a hackathon at the University of Texas. The event drew over 700 students organized into close to 100 teams. Major League Hacking, which Dell helps power, is the official collegiate hackathon league and puts on more than 50 hackathons across the US, UK, and Canada per semester. In advance…
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Bernard Golden: PaaS, Standards and Open Source
Last but not least in my series of four videos from the Cloud Standards Customer Council is an interview with Bernard Golden. Bernard, who is the VP of strategy at ActiveState, provided an industry perspective talk entitled: What Should PaaS Standards Look Like. Bernard then sat on the PaaS panel that followed. I sat down with Bernard and…
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Azure architect talks about Kubernetes and the future of PaaS
Here is the third of four interviews that I conducted last week at the Cloud Standards Customer Council. The theme of the conference was “preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption” and there was quite a bit of talk around the role that PaaS would play in that future. The last session of the morning, before…
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The Future of PaaS, its “value proposition” and Docker
At last week’s Cloud Standards Customer Council held in Austin Texas, the first panel of the day dealt with “Current and Future PaaS Trends.” The panel debated whether there should or could be a PaaS standard as well as what its future might look like. One of the panelists was Diane Mueller, community manager of…
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Preparing for the Post-IaaS world
Today I attended a day-long event put on here in Austin by the Cloud Standards Customer Council. It was a packed agenda focused around the theme “preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption.” Craig Lowery, Sr Distinguished Engineer in Dell Software, chaired the event and gave the opening presentation. I grabbed some time with Craig…
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Presenting Cloud at Harvard
In June I got to attend and present at the Harvard University IT Summit. The one-day summit, which brought together the IT departments from the 12 colleges that make up the University, consisted of talks, panels and breakout sessions. The day kicked off with a keynote from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen of The Innovator’s Dilemma and “disruptive innovation”…
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Findings from 451’s DevOps study — DevOps Days Austin
Today we come to the final interview from DevOps Days Austin. I began the series with an interview with Andrew Clay Shafer who gave the first-day keynote. Today I close, with perfect symmetry, with Michael Cote of 451 Research, who gave the keynote on the second day. In his keynote, posted below, Cote presented findings from a study…
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Dell Cloud Manager and Customer Transformation– DevOps Days Austin
Here is my penultimate post from DevOps Days Austin. Today’s interview features Vann Orton, a Dell Sales Engineer for Dell Cloud Manager. I chatted with Vann about the customers hes been visiting out in the field and what he’s seeing. Some of the ground Vann covers What’s Dell Cloud manager do and what pains does…
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Sumo Logic and Machine Data Intelligence — DevOps Days Austin
Today’s interview from DevOps Days Austin features Sumo Logic’s co-founder and CTO, Christian Beedgen. If you’re not familiar with Sumo Logic it’s a log management and analytics service. I caught up with Christian right after he got off stage on day one. Some of the ground Christian covers: What does Sumo Logic do? How is…
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New Relic – DevOps Days Austin
Here is the second of two videos on Application Performance Management from DevOps Days Austin. Heiko Leibenath of New Relic, which recently received an additional $100M in funding, gives an overview of this APM vendor who is making the transition to “Software analysis vendor.” Some of the ground Heiko covers: Why Heiko moved from…