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Video Walk thru of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (9350)
Last night as I was surfing the interwebs, I came across a “Tech Pills” video that covers the XPS 13 developer edition (9350). [The 9350 is the generation that proceded the current offering (9360) which came out in October. The two systems utilize the same chassis and the former features the Skylake processor whereas the latter…
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Digital Transformation: The Perils and the Keys to Success
The week before last Dell EMC held its first Dell EMC World here in Austin. The event was full of keynotes, breakouts and Dell EMC and partner booths. On the expo floor a stage was set up where partners and various Dell EMC employees, from Michael Dell on down, were interviewed as a part of…
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Speeding Up App Development for the Digital Enterprise – A conversation
Last week over 9,000 people attended the first Dell EMC world here in Austin. As you would expect there were keynotes, breakout sessions and an expo floor. On the floor itself, besides the various Dell EMC and partner booths, was an area set up for Dell EMC World Live. Dell EMC World Live featured a full roster…
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The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
Today, on the 59th anniversary of the launch of the Sputnik satellite, the 6th generation XPS 13 developer edition makes its debut in both the US, Canada and Europe. This Kaby Lake-based system comes with Ubuntu 16.04LTS preloaded and features the InfinityEdge display. A Quick Refresher As you may remember, these systems began life four years…
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Dell EMC’s Ceph Performance and Sizing Guide for the PowerEdge R730XD
If you’re not familiar with it, Red Hat’s Ceph storage is a distributed object store and file system. To support its deployment on the Dell EMC PowerEdge R730XD, a team from Dell EMC recently put together a white paper that acts as a performance and sizing guide. In the first video below, Amit Bhutani of Dell…
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Microsoft and Containers
Earlier this summer I was out in Seattle for DockerCon. Among the people I interviewed was Taylor Brown of Microsoft. While Microsoft may not be the first company you think of when talking containers, they actually have a bunch going on. Taylor in fact leads the team focusing on the server container technology coming out…
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EMC Dojo – Teaching the way of Modern Software Development
Last but not least in my series of interviews from SpringOne Platform stars Brain Roche of EMC. Brian heads up engineering for EMC Dojo, headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts. The dojo, which has been around for a year, teaches modern software development practices based on DevOps and focuses on Cloud Foundry. Take a listen as Brian…
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An Interview with Cloud Foundry Foundation’s CEO, Sam Ramji
A couple of months ago at the Cloud Foundry summit I tried to grab Sam Ramji, CEO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, to do a short interview. Unfortunately the stars didn’t align and it didn’t happen. At SpringOne Platform however I had better luck. Sam, who lead off the keynotes on day two, sat and…
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The Spring Platform, Where its Been and Where its Going
Early this month, armed with my trusty Flipcam (and oldie but a goody), I attended SpringOne Platform hosted by by Pivotal.io. While there I was able to grab a few interviews with some of the movers and shakers. Given that the title of the event was “SpringOne,” I would have been remiss had I not grabbed one…
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Native Hybrid Cloud — The Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer Platform in a Box
A few weeks ago at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform event I met Drew Dimmick of EMC. Drew heads up product management for EMC’s Native Hybrid Cloud offering. Native Hybrid Cloud, or “NHC” is a complete shrink-wrapped Pivotal Cloud Foundry developer platform that can be set up in as little as two days. I grabbed some time with…
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When Web Companies grow up they turn into Java Shops
Earlier this month I attended Pivotal’s SpringOne platform conference in Las Vegas. In case you’re not familiar with it, Spring is a Java Framework “that helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications.” For some of you out there you may be thinking Java is old school and not relevant in in today’s…
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Of Linux Laptops, Open Source and Hawaiian Food
In the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to participate in two podcasts. The first was the wild and wacky Lunduke & Whatnot (with Matt) show where System76 founder CEO, Carl Richell and I talked with our hosts about pre-loaded Linux laptops. In the second, which was recorded last week at SpringOne platform, Michael Cote hosts…
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EMC’s hyper converged VxRack – A Guided Tour
Back at the beginning of the summer I attended DockerCon out in Seattle. EMC was there in not one, but two booths. The first booth represented EMC {code} which I talked about in the previous post. The second one was hosted by EMC proper where, besides software, they showed their VxRack. VxRack is EMC’s hyper-converged…
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EMC {code} — What’s it all about
When you hear “EMC” you most likely think storage, you most likely don’t think open source or devops. That’s where EMC {code} comes in. Started nearly two years ago and championed by executive sponsor Josh Bernstein, this group of developers, evangelists and community activists is focused on enabling developers and on making EMC more relevant in the open source and…
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What the heck’s a Unikernel? And why should you care
Just when the tech world was starting to get their heads around containers, along come unikernels. Like containers, unikernels have been around in some form or another for quite awhile. Their resurgence has to do in large part to their container-like functionality. In a nutshell, unikernels combine an uber-stripped down version of an OS packaged with…
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VMware’s Photon Platform
Last week I attend DockerCon 2016 in Seattle. Besides spending time working the Dell booth, I grabbed a bunch of folks and did some short, guerrilla-style interviews. One of my victims was Kit Colbert who heads up VMware’s cloud native applications group. With the onslaught of container-mania VMware, the 800-pound-VM gorilla, has had to take a hard look at…
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Dell at DockerCon — Config guides, developer laptops, plugins and more
Today you would have to be under an IT rock if you haven’t at least heard of containers. Containers, which have recently been made easily usable by a wide audience, allow applications to flow in a uniform package from development, to test, to production. Containers also allow applications to be moved between public and private…
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Ubuntu comes to the Windows desktop — OpenStack summit
Recently an announcement was made that took a lot of people by surprise. Canonical and Microsoft announced that Ubuntu was now able to run on the Windows desktop. Ubuntu Goes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 Bash – LinuxInsider Dustin Kirkland was the main man on the Canonical side who drove this. I caught up with Dustin at…
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Where LXD fits within the virtualization and container landscape — OpenStack Summit
Yesterday here at the OpenStack summit here in Austin I caught a few of the sessions in the track that Canonical was hosting. One of the sessions dealt with Canonical’s LXD and where it fits into the whole virtualization/container space. The talk was given by Dustin Kirkland and after he had finished, I grabbed him…
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Looking back at the original OpenStack design summit in 2010
Yesterday the OpenStack summit kicked off here in Austin, TX. This week’s event is being attended by 7,500 individuals. To give some perspective on the project’s growth, at the inaugural design summit back in 2010 there were 75 people in attendance. The purpose of this initial invite-only event was to “develop a roadmap for the first…