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Cameron of Gartner talks DevOps – DevOps Days Austin
Last month at DevOps Days Austin I did a series of interviews with a variety of speakers and attendees. One of the attendees I chatted with was Cameron Haight of Gartner. For the past five years Cameron has been writing about, and advising clients on, DevOps. I caught some time with Cameron to get his…
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Value Ubuntu systems available for consumers in US along with high end XPS 13 developer edition
In the last few weeks Dell has expanded its consumer line up with additional Ubuntu machines: both the economical Inspiron series as well as the high-end, XPS 13 developer edition. The new economical Ubuntu laptops are made up the Inspiron 14 3000 and Inspiron 15 3000 (14 & 15 denote the screen size) which each offer four…
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Developer Edition Knowledge base: XPS 13 and M3800
Update June 26: How to Install Broadcom Wireless Driver on XPS 13 9343 from Ubuntu 15.04 Install Media http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/HOW10806/en ================================ We want to thank the entire community for your posts containing feedback and questions to the Dell TechCenter forum and on this blog regarding the XPS 13 and M3800 developer editions (Ubuntu). In response to your…
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Fixing your org by continually breaking it – Devops Days Austin
Here is the third post in a six part series focusing on DevOps Days Austin. Following Cote’s presentation, next in the line up of speakers on day one was Paul Read of Release Engineering Approaches. Paul’s talk tackles the “importance of continually breaking your organization with experiments, some surprising examples, and how to do it in such…
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The coming donkey apocalypse — DevOps Days Austin
After a bit of a gap I’m continuing the my series from DevOps Days Austin. After Damon Edwards kicked off the event, Michael Cote of Pivotal took the stage. Cote presented “The coming donkey apocalypse — what happens when Devops goes mainstream.” Take a listen (you can find his slides below): Some of the ground that Cote covers:…
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Opening Keynote – DevOps Days Austin
A couple of weeks ago I attended the fourth annual DevOps Days Austin. The event was extremely well organize and had a great line up of speakers. As always I brought along my trusty flipcam (cause I’m old school) and recorded a handful of interviews. The first in this series features Damon Edwards of DTO…
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Dell IoT lab data center
Here is the final post in the series of four concerning Dell’s IoT lab in California. Product Technologist, Raja Tamilarasan gives an overview of the dedicated IoT data center for customers and explains how it can be used for local or remote access. Extra-credit reading Barton’s blog: IoT lab: Dell Smart building demo Barton’s blog: What…
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Dell IoT lab: Smart building demo
Continuing with the third of four entries focusing on Dell’s Internet of Things lab, today we have a two-part look at the smart building demo. In the first clip, Product Technologist, Raja Tamilarasan takes us through a smart building showing how the sensors are attached to Wyse gateway which constantly monitors the data it receives. …
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What type of customers utilize Dell’s IoT lab
Here is the second in a series of four blog entries focusing on Dell’s Internet of Things lab in Santa Clara, California. Following the overall overview in the last entry, today’s post focuses on the customers who utilize the IoT laboratory. Product Technologist, Raja Tamilarasan explains how customers of all sizes, from small start-ups to…
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Overview: Dell’s Internet of Things (IoT) lab
Last month I was out in Bay Area and got to visit Dell’s recently opened Internet of Things lab. The lab, which is located within Dell’s Santa Clara office, is designed to help customers build, modify and create IoT solutions. Part of something bigger Dell’s Iot lab is a key piece within Dell’s overall end-to-end IoT…
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4th gen Dell XPS 13 developer edition available!
I would first like to thank everyone for their patience and support as we worked through various bugs that crept up. This has taken longer than we would have liked but I’m happy to say that as of today, the Dell XPS 13 developer edition is now available in the United States, Canada and Europe! A short history…
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HackDFW and the project Sputnik story
[Notice: Previously I mistakenly noted that this event was hosted by MLH when, while it was part of the MLH season, was the result of the hard work and effort by a team of students from UTD, SMU, and UNT.] Last week I attended HackDFW, a student hackathon in Dallas put on by an intrepid group of local students from…
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Update 2: Dell XPS 13 laptop, developer edition – Sputnik Gen 4
Updated March 6: Although this was mentioned by Mario in the comments below I wanted to make sure everyone saw this: A01 is out: http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverID=RHPC0&productCode=xps-13-9343-laptop Put it in /boot/efi since that is also a FAT partition–or on a FAT formatted USB stick, reboot, hit f12, and select the option to update the firmware. ===================== Two…
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Available in Europe: Precision M3800 developer edition
At the end of January we announced the launch of the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition. This beefy complement to the existing XPS 13 developer edition is the direct result of feedback from the community who have been asking for a larger system. Over the past few weeks we have been adding EMEA availability.…
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Update: Dell XPS 13 laptop, developer edition – Sputnik Gen 4
We have been getting a ton of questions around the 4th generation Sputnik (XPS13 laptop, developer edition) and when it will be available. As you may have seen, last week at Sundance we broke the news of our brand new Dell Precision M3800, developer edition pre-loaded with Ubuntu. The XPS 13 isn’t far behind. We’re…
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Welcome the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition
Update March 17: Great review in Network World — Review: Dell’s Ubuntu-powered M3800 Mobile Workstation is a desktop destroyer Since the planning stages of project Sputnik over two years ago we wanted to offer two versions of our developer-focused systems. The idea was to have both an ultra mobile laptop and a beefier workstation offering, a beauty…
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Installing Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
Over the break, Eric Mill put together great step-by-step instructions showing how to install Debian 8 (Jessie) on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. Eric also had some great things to say about the laptop and program themselves: Dell calls their program Project Sputnik, and it is managed by a friendly team of Linux engineers inside Dell…
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2014 in review – My Blog
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for my blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 42,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many people…
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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…