Tag: cloud
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MDC in our parking lot, serving up OpenStack & Hadoop
Why use valuable internal real estate when you can just set up a Modular Data Center (MDC) in your parking lot? The point wasn’t lost on the Dell Solution Center team who, with help from our partners Intel, is doing just that here in Round Rock. The new MDC, which should be online in a…
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OSCON: Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote
On the Thursday at OSCON, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth gave a great keynote entitled, “Making Magic From Cloud To Client.” He did the entire keynote and live demo on a project Sputnik laptop (a Dell XPS13 running Ubuntu 12.04LTS)! Here it is in its entirety: Some of the ground Mark covers: A fantastic…
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Talking about Project Sputnik
Last Friday Cote and I took a break from the mad rush getting ready for today’s Sputnik announce and grabbed a conference room to record a short video. Below we discuss the project, how it came about, what its goals are and where it could go from here. -> Weigh in on Dell IdeaStorm: Project…
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Gazzang – One of the 10 Austin startups to check out at SXSW
Last night we held our first SXSW meet up at Opal Divines. Opals is very close to the worldwide headquarters of Gazzang, which last week was named by GigaOm one of The 10 Austin startups you need to meet at SXSW 2012. Gazzang focuses on securing your data in the cloud via transparent data encryption. Given…
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Talking to the CEO of SugarSync — provider of personalized, multi-device cloud storage
Yesterday morning, Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync stopped by for some meetings here at Dell. SugarSync, if you’re not familiar with it, provides instant and secure online file sync and backup for your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Before Laura’s first meeting we grabbed a cup of coffee and did a quick video. Here it…
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Kanban2go — How to build a cloud-based offering
Dell corporate strategist by day, entrepreneur by night, Prabhakar Gopalan recently launched a SaaS offering called kanban2go that helps you manage and share your task list in the cloud. Prabhakar’s endeavor provides a quick overview of what it means to launch a cloud-based app today. Take a listen as he talks about the process and…
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Mark Shuttleworth part two: Developers, DevOps & the Cloud
As I mentioned in my last entry, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame stopped by Dell this morning on his way back from CES. Between meetings Mark and I did a couple of quick videos. Here is the second of the two. Whereas the first focused on the client, this one focuses on the Cloud and…
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Structure: Thoughts by Rich Miller of DataCenter Knowledge
To close out my series of interviews from last week’s Structure conference in San Francisco, below is the chat I had with Data Center Knowledge‘s founder and editor, Rich Miller. Last week’s event was the 4th Structure conference that Rich attended and I got his thoughts on some of the hot topics. Some of the…
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Structure: Cumulogic, a Java Platform as a Service
Last Thursday at Structure I ran into a couple of former Sun compadres who have started their own company in the cloud space: Cumulogic. Cumulogic is PaaS for developing Java applications and boasts the father of Java James Gosling and former Sun CIO Bill Vass as the leaders of its technical advisory board. I got…
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GigaOm names the top 50 Cloud Innovators
As a run up to next months Structure conference, GigaOm has put together a list of the top 50 companies “that are influencing how the cloud and infrastructure evolves.” Those who made the list, entitled The Structure 50, are described as follows These are the ones to watch — at least in 2011. You’ve heard of…
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Dell’s Billion Dollar Baby
Today Dell is announcing that it is continuing to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to its transformation into a solutions provider, this time to the tune of $1 Billion. The goal of this investment, which is being made this year, is to provide customers with a complete set of resources…
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OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
Last week and this, Austin’s downtown has been taken over by the South by Southwest festival (SXSW). What started out nearly 25 years ago as a music festival/conference has grown to include parallel film and interactive events as well. During the event every bar and venue downtown is occupied with bands, films or tech companies…
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Accenture’s thoughts on the OpenStack Cloud Platform
Another of yesterday’s featured speakers at the OpenStack design summit was Accenture partner, Joe Tobolski. Joe is part of Accenture labs which looks at emerging technologies and he is responsible for assets and architecture as part of Accenture’s global cloud program. I sat down with Joe in the cafe downstairs and got his thoughts on…
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PowerEdge C6100 – HPC & Cloud machine
As a follow on to last week’s PowerEdge C line overview, here is the first individual system overview: the C6100. Click below and let Dell Solutions Architect Rafael Zamora guide your thru the design and features of this densely packed machine targeted at HPC and cloud workloads. Some of the highlights: The PowerEdgeC 6100…
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Greenplum teaser starring Scott McNealy & Me 🙂
Last week I arrived a day before our launch to record videos with some of our cloud partners. My first stop was Greenplum to interview co-founder and president, Scott Yara (look for that video here in the near distant future). Given that turnaround is fair play they asked me to appear in a short promo…
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Dell’s New Cloud Server line – An Overview
At last week’s Dell Launch, “Solutions for the Virtual Era,” we unveiled the first three systems in our new PowerEdge C line. These “hyper-scale inspired” systems are based on designs that we have built for our largest scaled-out customers such as Windows Azure, Facebook, Ask.com and Tencent. The PowerEdge C line is targeted at both…