Tag: DevOps
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EMC Dojo – Teaching the way of Modern Software Development
Last but not least in my series of interviews from SpringOne Platform stars Brain Roche of EMC. Brian heads up engineering for EMC Dojo, headquartered in Cambridge Massachusetts. The dojo, which has been around for a year, teaches modern software development practices based on DevOps and focuses on Cloud Foundry. Take a listen as Brian…
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EMC {code} — What’s it all about
When you hear “EMC” you most likely think storage, you most likely don’t think open source or devops. That’s where EMC {code} comes in. Started nearly two years ago and championed by executive sponsor Josh Bernstein, this group of developers, evangelists and community activists is focused on enabling developers and on making EMC more relevant in the open source and…
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Incorporating DevOps into the development of Dell’s Active System Manager
As Dell as a company continues to evolve we have started implementing DevOps practices in our software development. Dell IT is employing DevOps as are some of our product development teams. In the following video, systems engineer Chris Gully explains how Dell’s Active System Manager has incorporated DevOps into its development. (the audio could be a…
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My Dell World Talk: DevOps, Containers and Microservices
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 –…
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Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
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…
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LittleIdea: No true DevOps (but we do have Samurai) — DevOps Days Austin
Earlier this week the third annual DevOps Days Austin took place. Given that it was Cinco de Mayo, and given that it was Austin, as we walked in on the first day we were greeted by a mariachi band. Also on the first day we were treated to an opening keynote by Andrew Clay Shafer. Shafer,…
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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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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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Automating the Cloud: Talking to the Puppet Master
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…
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OSCON: Talking to Andrew Parker of Puppet labs
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…
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OSCON: Neil Levine of Inktank, sponsor of Ceph
The next in my series of interviews from last month’s OSCON features the ever affable Neil Levine of Inktank. Neil, who has been with the company nearly a year, heads up product management and we talked about Ceph, the company and where its going. Warning: I used Youtube’s feature that is supposed to fix shaking…
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Dell Acquires Enstratius — So what do they do?
Last week at DevOps Days Austin, I did a couple of interviews with John Willis (aka @botchagalupe), VP Client Services and Enablement at Enstratius. The first video dealt with devops and the idea of culture as a secret weapon in the war of hiring. The second one was about Enstratius the company, which coincidentally today Dell…
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DevOps Days Austin — John Willis: Culture as the secret weapon in the war of hiring
DevOps Days Austin took place earlier this week here in our fair city. Kicking off the festivities was Mr. John Willis who delivered the DevOps state of union. I grabbed sometime with John on day two to discuss what he talked about: Some of the ground John covers: Culture as the secret weapon in the war…
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Talking OpenStack, DevOps and Project Sputnik at the OpenStack Summit
Last week Dell’s cloud group was out in force at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon. Its amazing to see how the event has grown since the first design summit back in July of 2010. I got to catch up with a bunch of people, and attend a few sessions and some parties. I also…
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Ars Technica provides detailed review of Dell XPS 13 developer edition
If you’re thinking about getting a Dell XPS 13 developer edition you might want to check out the comprehensive review published by Ars Technica this weekend: “It just works: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux Ultrabook review — Dell’s substantial investment in making a functional Linux Ultrabook pays off.” Here is the summary intro: In an…
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Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition
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…
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OSCON: Tim O’Reilly chats with Mark Shuttleworth
Here’s the last of my posts from OSCON. The conversation below took place right after Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. Tim and Mark start off by talking about Mark’s persistence of vision and what keeps driving him. At the 2:00 minute mark they talk about Project Sputnik, the buzz around it at OSCON and where it has…
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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…