Yesterday at Dell World, Dell’s annual customer event, I did a session entitled: DevOps, Containers and Microservices: Buzzwords or fundamental to survival? The idea was to explain these concepts, show how they serve as a foundation for digital transformation and talk about where Dell plays in the space. (see abstract below) Topics and times 2:20 –…
Here is my final post from Dell World. Today’s interview is with Nikita Maheshwari, product marketing manager with Nutanix. I caught up with Nikita on the show floor in front of their booth. I got her to give a brief overview of the company and what they announced with Dell at the show. Check it out. Some…
The week before last I was roaming the expo floor at Dell World and I bumped into Steve Croce. Steve is at Dell and is the product manager and strategist for our OpenStack private cloud offering. I got Steve to spend a few minutes with me and give me the lowdown on what we are offering…
The next interview in my series from Dell World features Julio Tapia of Red Hat. Julio is a global director for Red Hat’s platform as a service, OpenShift. I got Julio to give me a quick overview of OpenShift, where Dell plays and what they are planning going forward. Some of the ground Julio covers…
Last week I participated in Dell World with my trusty Flipcam (yes, I still have one, if it ain’t broke…) and caught a bunch of interviews. Several, not surprisingly, dealt with the cloud space. The first of these is with Red Hat Sr. Solution Architect, Ian Pilcher who was on the expo floor. Ian was…
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…
Today at Dell world, we are rolling out the public beta of the Dell Cloud Marketplace. The marketplace, which is targeted at both sys admins and developers, allows you to set-up, manage, monitor and pay for a variety of cloud services in a self-service model. The IaaS platforms available at launch are provided by Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud…
Last year at Dell World we talked about our approach to Digital Transformation. This year however we have put it front and center and the theme is woven throughout the show. Today at Dell World, supporting this increased focus, Dell Services is unveiling a new dedicated service line called Digital Business Services (DBS). This service line…
Here is the second interview I did from the floor of Dell World. I talk about the following three topics: The Web vertical – understanding and meeting the needs of web companies [1:20] The 4 emerging cloud solutions we were showing at Dell world [2:25] How Dell is promoting innovation internally Check it out: Extra-credit…
At Dell World I was interviewed about Project Sputnik, the resulting XPS 13 Developer Edition we launched and the importance of developers. Here’s the interview (notice my fashion forward blue Dell shirt 😉 Extra-credit reading Dell World Triples Attendance, Rewards Attendees with Prizes & Expanded Online Experience Pau for now…
I wanted to get one more quick post in before I head out for the holidays. Things have been crazy since the XPS 13 Developer Edition launched almost three weeks ago. In fact no sooner did we start to catch our breath from the product’s launch that Dell World took place. We had a lot…
Last week we held Dell’s first Dell World event here in Austin, Texas. The two-day event was targeted at CxOs and IT professionals and featured an expo, panels and speakers such as CEOs Mark Benioff, Paul Otellini, Steve Ballmer and Paul Maritz as well as former CIO of the United States, Vivek Kundra. And of…