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App Think Tank: The persistently, ubiquitously connected to the network era
The third short video from the Dell Services Think Tank 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 the new app-centric world. In this clip…
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Sputnik 3 — Great Reviews from the Blog-o-sphere
At the end of last year we launched the third generation of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, aka Sputnik 3, which features the 4th generation Intel processors. This Ubuntu-based laptop is the third in a line of developer focused systems which began life as the internal skunk works effort, “Project Sputnik.” Thanks to strong community input and support…
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Consumerization: setting the bar for IT
Mark Stouse of BMC has asked various people in the industry to answer seven short questions for his series Marking Predictions for 14. The questions are around Cloud Computing, Big Data and Consumerization. To give you a taste of what I was thinking about, here is my response to the second question and why I think…
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“New Age of Apps” Think Tank to be streamed Live
On Thursday, January 23 Dell services will be hosting a think tank in Silicon Valley at the venture capital firm NEA. While hosted in the Bay Area, the event will be streamed live for viewing around the world. The title of the Think Tank is “The new age of apps and delivery gaps” and we…
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DevOps Days NYC — When DevOps goes wrong
One the most enlightening and entertaining presentations on Day one of DevOps Days NYC, was given by ScriptRock cofounder, Mike Baukes. In his presentation, which is embedded below, Mike talks about a devops project he was on in Australia. He and his team were brought in to a large trading firm to implement continuous delivery…
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DevOps Days NYC — Jonathan Reams of MongoDB
As I continue in my series of videos from DevOps days NYC a few months ago, here is an interview with Jonathan Reams of MongoDB. Johnathan is systems engineer on Mongo’s DevOps team and is helping to make MongoDB, the NoSQL non-relational database, more appealing to operations. Some of the ground Jonathan covers: Mongo’s huMONGOus…
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DevOps Days NYC – Mark Burgess of CFEngine
In my last entry, I featured an interview with SaltStack, the newbie in the infrastructure automation and configuration management space. Today’s interview is with the man who started it all back in the 90’s, Mark Burgess, Founder and CTO of CFEngine. Some of the ground Mark covers How it all began a couple of decades…
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DevOps Days NYC: Mike Ainsworth of SaltStack
Infrastructure automation and configuration management have become a hot topic as organizations, particularly those in the web and cloud space have continued to scale out. The first player, that helped define the space, was CFengine. Heavy weights in this space now include Puppet and Chef, and at Dell we lead, Project Crowbar, an open source effort…
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Barton’s Blog — 2013 in review
A bit gratuitous, but here is the 2013 annual report for my blog prepared by the WordPress.com stats helper monkeys. Here’s an excerpt: These are the posts that got the most views in 2013. Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe 217 COMMENTS February 2013 Introducing Sputnik 3 and…
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DevOps Days NYC: Mark Imbriaco of GitHub
Here is the first in a series of interviews I conducted in October at DevOps Days NYC. My first interview is with Mark Imbriaco, ops dude extraordinaire at GitHub who previously ran ops for 37signals, Heroku, and LivingSocial. GitHub, if you’re not familiar with it is a code hoster that boasts around 5 million users and…
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Cloud Beat: Talking to Founder of CloudVelocity
With the New year I’m finally getting to a backlog of cool interviews I did last quarter. The first is the last of the interviews I conducted at Venture Beat’s CloudBeat back in September with the CTO and Founder of CloudVelocity, Anand Iyengar. CloudVelocity provides automated cloud migration and disaster recovery software. Take a listen to what…
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Sputnik 3 online in Europe just in time for Holidays
Last month in the States we announced the availability of Sputnik 3, the XPS 13 Developer Edition featuring the 4th generation Intel processors. This laptop, which is touch-enabled, is replacing the existing XPS 13 Developer Edition. We had hoped to make the offering available online across Europe a couple of weeks about but a few online glitches kept…
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Insight into the technology behind Goldman Sachs
Last week I attended the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas. I went to talk to customers, do booth duty (I talked about the app-centric world and how IT can best respond to it) and check out a few sessions. The best session I attended was a power-point-free discussion with Don Duet, Co-head of…
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IDC predicts fierce battle for developers in 2014
A couple of weeks ago IDC put out their predictions for 2014, saying “2014 Will Be a Year of Escalation, Consolidation, and Innovation as the Transition to IT’s “3rd Platform” Accelerates.” The part that really caught my eye was the the second half of the following sentence: “In 2014, we’ll see every major player make…
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Update: Project Sputnik Profile tool
About a month ago I blogged that, with renewed vigor and resources, we were tackling the Project Sputnik Profile Tool – a tool that enables a developer to quickly set up an environment without cluttering up their system. The announcement included a new collaboration with the folks from Docker and a request for feedback from…
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Whitepaper: Learning from Web Companies to drive Innovation
Today I finally get to debut a white paper that Michael Cote, now of the 451 Research, and I started quite a while back: Learning from Web companies to drive Innovation – Embracing DevOps, Scale and Open Source Software The basic theme of the paper is that Web companies set the agenda for the IT…
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Introducing Sputnik 3 and its unofficial big brother
First, a little background. Nearly a year ago today we launched the first Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. This Ubuntu-based client-to-cloud platform was the result of an internal skunkworks effort, Project Sputnik. Thanks to strong community input and support the project became a product. Within a few months of launching the initial XPS 13 Developer…