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Talkin’ APM and AppDynamics – DevOps Days Austin
Today, I’m featuring one of the two interviews around Application Performance Management from DevOps Days Austin. Take a listen to Steve Sturtevant who recently joined AppDynamics as he explains the role AppDynamics plays in the DevOps universe. Some of the ground Steve covers: Steve’s background and why he chose to join AppDynamics What AppDynamics does The technologies…
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CFEngine, where its been and where its going — DevOps Days Austin
Today’s entry from DevOps Days Austin concludes the series on configuration management tools. Today’s interview features Jonathan Thorpe of CFEngine, the company that started the whole configuration management thang back in the 90’s. Some of the ground Jonathan covers Why Jonathan recently joined CFEngine and its role with mobile and embedded A quick history of CFEngine…
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Synaptics Touchpad drivers now in Test Kernels
Great news, yesterday the i2c Linux kernel drivers from Synaptics made it upstream and are in the proposed repository. This is relevant for those Sputnik 3 users who have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to either 13.10 or 14.04 LTS. If you want to start kicking the tires before the drivers hit updates, you can enable the…
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Learning about Puppet Enterprise – DevOps Days Austin
Last week was DevOps Days here in Austin and I conducted a bunch of interviews. On Friday I shared an interview with Andrew Clay Shafer who gave the first-day keynote. The next three interviews I’ll be posting deal with configuration management tools. Im going to kick off the topic with an interview with Lindsey Smith who recently joined…
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Developers share experiences running Ubuntu on Dell M3800 and XPS 15
Back in November when we launched Sputnik 3, we also announced its “unofficial big brother,” the Dell M3800 Precision workstation and the Dell XPS 15. This announcement was based on the after-hours work that Dell Linux engineer Jared Dominguez did to test and document the system. Quite a few developers have referenced Jared’s work, taken the…
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LittleIdea: No true DevOps (but we do have Samurai) — DevOps Days Austin
Earlier this week the third annual DevOps Days Austin took place. Given that it was Cinco de Mayo, and given that it was Austin, as we walked in on the first day we were greeted by a mariachi band. Also on the first day we were treated to an opening keynote by Andrew Clay Shafer. Shafer,…
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App Think Tank: Cloud vs. hyperscale
This is the final video clip from the Dell Services Application think tank held earlier this year. Today’s clip features the always enlightening and entertaining Jimmy Pike. Jimmy, who is a Senior Fellow at Dell and was once called the Willy Wonka of servers, was one of the 10 panelists at the Think Tank where we discussed the challenges of…
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App Think Tank: Intel IT turns apps into services
Today, Das Kamhout, IT Principal Engineer at Intel and their lead cloud architect talks about Intel IT’s program to make all of their traditional applications into services. (This video was taken from the Application think tank that Dell Services held back in January.) The world is turning to services. As Das points out, after you rationalize your application portfolio you want…
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App Think Tank: The importance of application rationalization
Today’s topic, taken from the Application think tank held by Dell Services early this year, is application rationalization. Take a listen as Ranga Jayaraman, Associate Dean and CIO of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford talks about the importance of application rationalization and shifting the way you do development. The bottom line is if you are…
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App Think Tank: Key application policies at Intel and American Cancer Society
This week’s theme is applications and software strategy and yesterday’s post dealt with the value of going “open source”all the way” from start-ups to large enterprises. Today we’re taking a look at the major guidelines that two large organizations have put in place for all applications being developed. Take a listen to Das Kamhout, IT Principal Engineer at Intel…
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App Think Tank: The skills and people IT needs most
Yesterday I featured the first of three videos that tackle the topic — the skills CIOs and IT need for success. Today’s video features Ranga Jayaraman, Associate Dean and CIO of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Ranga responds to the question, how would you set up your IT environment today if you had the luxury of…
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SXSW: Talking with AllDigital
Im currently downtown at SXSW after having had lunch with a customer, AllDigital. AllDigital delivers digital content from the cloud to multiple endpoints for corporations and entertainment properties. They are here at SXSW to support some of their customers and prospect for new ones. Before Tim Napoleon, AllDigital’s Chief of strategy, took off for…
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24 Hours of Pizza-fueled Innovation
Postponed: Over the weekend, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to postpone our first hackathon. Stay tuned for more details. Im very psyched to announce Dell’s first Hackathon which will be happening next week right here in Austin. The Dell Center for Entrepreneurs and Dell Software Information Management Solutions are teaming up…
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App Think Tank: The Web Of C-Level Relationships
Here is the last in a series of videos from the Dell Services Think Tank. During the event’s first session I posed the question — given the chance, how would you set up it for the CIO, CMO, business and developers to work together? NGINX tech evangelist, Sarah Novotny jumped right in, having had a chance…