Tag: cloud computing
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NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
At the inaugural design summit for OpenStack, an open source set of technologies for building clouds, Nebula’s chief architect Josh McKenty played a prominent role in leading the assembled folks. I caught Josh during a break and chatted with him about Nebula and NASA’s role in the newly announced OpenStack project. Here’s what he had…
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Onlive’s gaming cloud powered by custom Dell servers
Today at E3, OnLive Inc is kicking off the roll out of its cloud gaming service. OnLive, whose motto is “Just Play,” leverages broadband and the cloud to deliver on-demand gaming titles directly to users’ PCs, Macs or even TVs. This new service could prove to be a real “game changer.” As Dell Data Center…
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Federal Cloud Computing, two steps forward?
Over the past week I have presented Dell’s thoughts and capabilities around cloud computing to several different groups from the U.S. military. In preparation for these talks I did some research into what’s happening in the wild and wonderful world of federal cloud computing. Here are a couple things that I found particularly interesting: Psych!…
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Datawarehouser Greenplum — Talking to President and Founder, Scott Yara
When I was out in the Bay Area for our launch I stopped by data warehouse and analytics player Greenplum. Greenplum is one of the first three members in our Cloud Partner program (the other two are Canonical and Aster Data.) I sat down with Greenplum’s President and founder Scott Yara to talk about the…
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Dell’s New High Performance Analytics & Cloud Server
Last but not least in our tour of the first flight of servers in Dell’s PowerEdge C line is the C2100. This was filmed last month at our launch right after we closed down our whisper suite. Click below and join solutions architect Rafael Zamora as he leads you through the thrills, chills and spills…
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Cloud Webinar and Deck now posted
As part of the CIO series we are doing with Information Week, I did a webinar on Wednesday called The Journey to the Cloud. If you want to get a feel for some of the big issues and ideas addressed during the webinar, check out moderator Fred Paul’s entertaining blog entry. Here is the deck…
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Cloud White Paper now available
Our first Cloud white paper is now available and I’m really happy with the way it turned out. Being relatively new to Dell I didn’t know if I would be “compelled” to mention product in it or not but I’m happy to say that the paper focuses solely on the trends behind, and characteristics, of…
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PowerEdge C1100 – Skinny & Dense
Here is the third in my series of four videos exploring the new Dell PowerEdge C server line. Today’s feature, the PowerEdge C1100. If you’re wondering about the funky game show-like setting, I shot this after hours on the day of our launch in the whisper suite. Your guide, as before, is the incomparable Dell…
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Dell Joins Cloud Security Alliance
I recorded this interview with David Lang earlier this year and have been meaning to post it for the longest time. David is Dell’s program manager for federal security which means he is charge of the team that supports the security requirements for all Dell’s businesses that faces the federal government. He’s based in DC…
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Just flew in from Vegas…and boy are my jokes tired
I was recently in Las Vegas for Dell’s annual kick off where the sales force learns all about the cool products we have on tap. Not only were there tons of presentation sessions, there was a full expo area with both Dell and partner booths. In the Cloud Infrastructure Solutions booth I got to act…
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Dell’s Cloud Plans Grab Virtual Ink
The Friday before last my boss Andy and I had a call with James Niccolai of IDG. We chatted about what we’ve been up to at Dell as well as teed up what we have in store for the near distant future. Here is the result: PCworld, “Dell Plans New Line of ‘cloud’ Servers this…
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Talking to the Head of VMware’s Cloud Business
Here is the second in my three part series on Virtualization and the cloud. Today’s entry focuses on the 800 pound gorilla in the virtualization space, VMware. At last month’s Gartner’s Data Center conference, right after his standing room only presentation, I grabbed some time with VMware’s Mr. Cloud, Dan Chu . Hear what he…
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Talking to Roger of Citrix about now and Xen
Last month at the Interop/Web 2.0 I was able to drag Citrix’s Roger Klorese away from booth duty for an interview. Roger is a Sr. Director at Citrix who works on Xen server and the Essentials product family. Here is what he had to say: Some of the topics Roger tackles What Roger has been…
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What is ATT up to in the cloud?
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York to visit customers and attend the co-located Interop and Web 2.0 events. One of the attendees/participants I got to know there was Joe Weinman, VP of ATT’s Business Solutions. Joe has been focusing a lot on the cloud lately so I thought I’d put down…
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Talking about Gluster: Clustered Cloud Storage
With today’s post, I’m right at the mid-point of my series of video interviews from Cloud Computing Expo. Today’s post offers a two-for-one special, Gluster CEO Hitesh Chellani along with Jack O’Brien who heads Gluster’s product management. Some of the topics Hitesh and Jack tackle: Gluster as a general-purpose open source cluster platform that runs…
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Learning about Heroku – The Ruby PaaS Solution
Kicking off my series of videos from last week’s Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, here is a chat I had with Oren Teich, of Heroku. Heroku, if you’re not familiar is a 2-yr old Platform as-a-Service company targeting Ruby developers. Oren recently joined Heroku as their head of product management and had the following to…
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Gartner’s Bittman: Private Cloud’s value as Stepping Stone
Yesterday Gartner distinguished analyst Tom Bittman, who covers cloud computing and virtualization, posted some thoughts and observations from the Gartner Symposium in Orlando. Private Cloud-o-maina Based on Tom’s observations, private cloud (however defined) seems to have captured the hearts and minds of IT. Before he began his talk on virtualiztion he did a quick poll…
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Gartner: Cloud Computing #1 technology for 2010
Just a little while ago Steve Shankland posted an article from the front lines of the Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando. The article is based on a presentation given today by Gartner addressing the top 10 trends that will be coming in IT in 2010. And what found itself moving up two spaces from last…
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Talking about Dell’s Cloud efforts
Last Friday I got together with Michael Cote of Red Monk and John Willis of Canonical for a podcast. We met up at a nearby coffee shop and chatted about a whole bunch o’ stuff. You can listen to the actual podcast on Cote’s blog. Some of the topics we tackle: What I’ll be doing…