Recently an announcement was made that took a lot of people by surprise. Canonical and Microsoft announced that Ubuntu was now able to run on the Windows desktop. Ubuntu Goes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 Bash – LinuxInsider Dustin Kirkland was the main man on the Canonical side who drove this. I caught up with Dustin at…
Yesterday here at the OpenStack summit here in Austin I caught a few of the sessions in the track that Canonical was hosting. One of the sessions dealt with Canonical’s LXD and where it fits into the whole virtualization/container space. The talk was given by Dustin Kirkland and after he had finished, I grabbed him…
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…
Today when I was walking the floor at the Cloud Expo here in New York, I ran into fellow Austinite Dustin Kirkland. Dustin is the manager for systems integration team for Ubuntu. I got Dustin to give me the low down on the most recent UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) that concluded a few weeks ago…
At Austin Cloud Camp on Saturday I ran into Ubuntu linux developer and Canonical employee, Dustin Kirkland. Dustin is on the server developer team at Canonical and, as he explains it, focuses on various aspects of virtualization, the plumbing layer below cloud computing. I grabbed Dustin for a few minutes and chatted with him about…
This past Saturday, Cloud Camp Austin was held down on the UT campus. There was a very healthy turnout and a lot of great discussions were generated. Sequence of Events After opening salutations, camp got underway with a series of six five-minute lightening talks delivered by the camp’s gold sponsors. The Main Event From there,…