Tag: open source
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Welcome the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition
Update March 17: Great review in Network World — Review: Dell’s Ubuntu-powered M3800 Mobile Workstation is a desktop destroyer Since the planning stages of project Sputnik over two years ago we wanted to offer two versions of our developer-focused systems. The idea was to have both an ultra mobile laptop and a beefier workstation offering, a beauty…
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Learning about Dell’s OpenStack private cloud offering
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…
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Bernard Golden: PaaS, Standards and Open Source
Last but not least in my series of four videos from the Cloud Standards Customer Council is an interview with Bernard Golden. Bernard, who is the VP of strategy at ActiveState, provided an industry perspective talk entitled: What Should PaaS Standards Look Like. Bernard then sat on the PaaS panel that followed. I sat down with Bernard and…
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The Future of PaaS, its “value proposition” and Docker
At last week’s Cloud Standards Customer Council held in Austin Texas, the first panel of the day dealt with “Current and Future PaaS Trends.” The panel debated whether there should or could be a PaaS standard as well as what its future might look like. One of the panelists was Diane Mueller, community manager of…
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Synaptics Touchpad drivers now in Test Kernels
Great news, yesterday the i2c Linux kernel drivers from Synaptics made it upstream and are in the proposed repository. This is relevant for those Sputnik 3 users who have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to either 13.10 or 14.04 LTS. If you want to start kicking the tires before the drivers hit updates, you can enable the…
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Developers share experiences running Ubuntu on Dell M3800 and XPS 15
Back in November when we launched Sputnik 3, we also announced its “unofficial big brother,” the Dell M3800 Precision workstation and the Dell XPS 15. This announcement was based on the after-hours work that Dell Linux engineer Jared Dominguez did to test and document the system. Quite a few developers have referenced Jared’s work, taken the…
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DevOps Days NYC — Jonathan Reams of MongoDB
As I continue in my series of videos from DevOps days NYC a few months ago, here is an interview with Jonathan Reams of MongoDB. Johnathan is systems engineer on Mongo’s DevOps team and is helping to make MongoDB, the NoSQL non-relational database, more appealing to operations. Some of the ground Jonathan covers: Mongo’s huMONGOus…
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DevOps Days NYC: Mike Ainsworth of SaltStack
Infrastructure automation and configuration management have become a hot topic as organizations, particularly those in the web and cloud space have continued to scale out. The first player, that helped define the space, was CFengine. Heavy weights in this space now include Puppet and Chef, and at Dell we lead, Project Crowbar, an open source effort…
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Insight into the technology behind Goldman Sachs
Last week I attended the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas. I went to talk to customers, do booth duty (I talked about the app-centric world and how IT can best respond to it) and check out a few sessions. The best session I attended was a power-point-free discussion with Don Duet, Co-head of…
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Update: Project Sputnik Profile tool
About a month ago I blogged that, with renewed vigor and resources, we were tackling the Project Sputnik Profile Tool – a tool that enables a developer to quickly set up an environment without cluttering up their system. The announcement included a new collaboration with the folks from Docker and a request for feedback from…
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Introducing Sputnik 3 and its unofficial big brother
First, a little background. Nearly a year ago today we launched the first Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. This Ubuntu-based client-to-cloud platform was the result of an internal skunkworks effort, Project Sputnik. Thanks to strong community input and support the project became a product. Within a few months of launching the initial XPS 13 Developer…
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Project Sputnik Profile Tool: Dell commits engineering resources, Docker joins the cause and we want your input!
When we first introduced Project Sputnik over a year ago we talked about two community projects: the profile tool and the cloud launcher. We garnered a fair amount of attention and made some progress but unfortunately not as much as I would have liked. I am very happy to report therefore that recently we have…
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Talking to the Docker Dudes
This morning a group of us here at Dell met with Ben Golub, Jerome Petazzoni and Nick Stinemates of dotCloud, the company behind the wildly popular open source project, Docker, “the Linux container engine.” They came to sample the great barbecue and to chat about how Docker might potentially work with Project Sputnik, the Crowbar Project…
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My O’Reilly Video — Telling the Project Sputnik story
While I interviewed a bunch of folks at OSCON, I also got the chance to be on the other end of the camera. On Thursday of the event I sat down with Meghan Blanchette, editor at O’Reilly media and we talked about Project Sputnik, where it’s been and where it’s going. Check it out: Some…
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OSCON: Talking OpenShift, RedHat’s Platform as a Service
Last but not least in my series of video from last month’s OSCON is an interview I did with Steve Citron-Pousty, Developer Evangelist for Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS. Take a listen to what the ever-entertaining Steve CP has to say: Note: As with my interview with Neil of Inktank, I used Youtube’s feature that is supposed to fix an unsteady…
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OSCON: AppDynamics and application performance management
Today’s OSCON interview takes us into the land of application performance modeling and features Dustin Whittle, Technical Evangelist at AppDynamics. AppDynamics provides performance management for Java, .Net and PHP applications. Check out what Dustin has to say about the wild and wacky world of APM: Some of the ground Dustin covers What does AppDynamics…
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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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OSCON: Mark Hinkle on his keynote + Citrix and Open Source
Last month at OSCON, after his keynote “Creating communities of Inclusion,” I caught up with Mark Hinkle, Senior Director of Open Source Solutions at Citrix. We chatted about about the talk he delivered and what he and Citrix are up to in the world of Open Source. Some of the ground Mark covers: Getting in ruts…
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OSCON: Dell Multi-cloud manager & Dasein Cloud
Last week at OSCON.I grabbed some time with my new Dell co-worker, James Urquhart. James became a Dell employee not too long ago when Dell acquired Enstratius. I wanted to hear straight from the horses mouth about the Dell Multi-Cloud manager and the Open Source project, Dasein Cloud. Here’s what James had to say: Some of…