At Cloud Field Day, I sat in on a presentation from Catchpoint, a company focused on digital experience monitoring. Their platform delivers real-time insights into the performance and availability of applications, services, and networks. What sets Catchpoint apart is how they’re reframing observability—moving away from infrastructure-centric monitoring and placing the focus squarely on end-user experience….
At Cloud Field Day 22, cybersecurity leader Fortinet shared its vision for managing the growing complexity of cloud-native environments. Their focus: enabling security teams to move faster, reduce alert fatigue, and make smarter decisions using AI-driven threat detection and automation. Navigating Modern Cloud Security Challenges In traditional data centers, firewalls protected predictable network chokepoints. But…
Presented at Cloud Field Day in Santa Clara Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to participate as a delegate at Cloud Field Day in Santa Clara. As delegates, we engaged directly with the presenting companies, offering feedback on what resonated, what needed clarification, and how their strategies could evolve. The first presenter was Infoblox,…
Originally published February 3, 2023 10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada. What made this product unique was not only that it had been developed out-of-process and by a team largely made up of volunteers, but it targeted a constituency completely new…
As we’ve talked about before, a few of us in Dell’s CTO group have recently been working with our friends at Joyent. This effort is a part of the consideration of platforms capable of intelligently deploying workloads to all major infrastructure flavors – bare-metal, virtual machine, and container. Today’s post on this topic comes to us complements of Glen…
Last week at Dell World I interviewed a bunch of folks and will be posting these videos in the upcoming days. On the last day of the event however I got to sit on the other side of the camera and talk about Digital Transformation. Take a listen below as I explain what I’ve learned…
Digital transformation may seam like the latest in a long line of marketecture-based high tech concepts but it actually is pretty straight forward. In a nutshell, digital transformation is about adopting and often combining the digital technologies of Cloud, Mobility, Social Media and Analytics to better serve customers. More generally, digital transformation, is about extreme customer-centricity…
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…
Today we conclude the mini-series of videos around the topic of application and software strategy. Today’s segment features Barry Libenson, SVP and CIO at Safeway talking about legacy platforms vs. modern cloud-based systems like the loyalty platform they have implemented. Take a listen as Barry talks about the differences between the two. While it might not make sense…
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…
The week before last Dell Services held a think tank out in Silicon Valley at the venture firm, NEA. We had 10 panelists representing both old school and new school organizations: Intel, Safeway, American Cancer Society, Puppet Labs, NGINX, Stormpath, Stanford Business School, 451 Research and TechCrunch (see complete list of participants below). I had…
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…
In the cloud you can turn on 100s or 1000s of servers at the click of a mouse, but what happens when you want to configure them? If you do it by hand it will take you months if not longer. That’s where Puppet comes in, an automation tool that allows you to configure and…
Here’s the next in my series of interviews from VentureBeat’s CloudBeat, held last week in San Francisco. After his panel, I got a chance to chat with Andres Bang, head of global sales and operations systems at Linkedin. I talked to Andres about how they used Dell Boomi to integrate their cloud and on premise…
Im now at the penultimate interview in my video series from OSCON 13. Today’s installment features Puppet Labs‘ Andrew Parker, team lead for the core platform team. Check out what Andrew has to say: Some of the ground Andrew covers What is Puppet and how does it work? DevOps: How does Puppet help bridge the…
Last month at OSCON, after his keynote “Creating communities of Inclusion,” I caught up with Mark Hinkle, Senior Director of Open Source Solutions at Citrix. We chatted about about the talk he delivered and what he and Citrix are up to in the world of Open Source. Some of the ground Mark covers: Getting in ruts…
A couple weeks ago Dell put on a half-day Cloud summit on BrightTALK. The event, led out of our services group, was made up of six hour-long presentations that ranged from Cloud security to compliance to HPC. John Willis, who recently joined Dell via the Enstratius acquisition, and I presented the deck below. We began…
At the OpenStack summit last month we caught up with Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Below is a quick snippet taken from our chat with Mark where he talks about the Dell XPS 13 developer edition aka Project Sputnik. Mark dubs the system “freakin’ awesome” and the “environment of choice for anyone doing web…
On Monday, we announced the new 1080p display for the XPS 13 developer edition and its upcoming availability in Europe and beyond. To support that launch, here is the official spec sheet as well as a brief presentation on the project and resulting product. Stay tuned for more news. Pau for now…
A little over six months ago we announced a scrappy skunkworks project to pilot a developer solution based on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and our sleek XPS 13 laptop. Thanks to the amazing feedback and support we have received from the community, today we are announcing the availability of the resulting official product – the Dell XPS…