Earlier this month we announced that Dell would be open sourcing the Crowbar “barclamps” for Hadoop. Well today is the day and the code is now available at our github repo. Whats a Crowbar barclamp? If you haven’t heard of project Crowbar it’s a software framework developed at Dell that started out as an installation tool…
Rob Hirschfeld, aka “Commander Crowbar,” recently posted a blog entry looking back at how Crowbar came to be, how its grown and where he hopes it will go from here. What’s a Crowbar? If you’re not familiar with Crowbar, its an open source software framework that began life as an installation tool to speed installation…
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…
A couple of days ago Bret Piatt, who handles Technical Alliances for OpenStack, came up to Austin to have further discussion with our team’s software engineers around OpenStack. If you’re not familiar with OpenStack, it is an open source cloud platform founded on contributed code from Rackspace and NASA’s Nebula cloud. The project was kicked…