Tag: open source
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Hadoop World: Talking to Splunk’s Co-founder
Last but not least in the 10 interviews I conducted while at Hadoop World is my talk with Splunk‘s CTO and co-founder Erik Swan. If you’re not familiar with Splunk think of it as a search engine for machine data, allowing you to monitor and analyze what goes on in your systems. To learn more, listen…
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Hadoop World: Talking HBase with Facebook’s Jonathan Gray
At Hadoop World, Facebook’s Jonathan Gray gave two talks: HBase Roapmap, and Building Realtime Big Data Services at Facebook with Hadoop and HBase. While I wasn’t able to attend the sessions, at the end of the conference I was able to catch up with the man himself. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the…
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Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju
I’m always interested in what’s happening at Canonical and with Ubuntu. Last week at Hadoop World I ran into a couple of folks from the company (coincidentally both named Mark but neither Mr. Shuttleworth). Mark Mims from the server team was willing to chat so I grabbed some time with him to learn about what he…
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Hadoop World: Karmasphere and big data intelligence
One thing Hadoop isn’t great at right out of the box is data analytics, that’s where a company like Karmasphere comes in. Karmasphere provides business intelligence software that data analysts can use to use to mine the data that Hadoop sucks up. Last week at Hadoop World I grabbed some time with Karamsphere’s Chairman and…
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OSCON: The Data Locker project and Singly
Who owns your data? Hopefully the answer is you and while that may be true it is often very difficult to get your data out of sites you have uploaded it to and move it elsewhere. Additionally, your data is scattered across a bunch of sites and locations across the web, wouldn’t it be amazing…
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Hadoop Summit: Chatting with Cloudera’s VP of Product
The next in my series of videos from the Hadoop Summit features Cloudera‘s Vice President of product, Charles Zedlewski. If you’re not familiar with Cloudera you can think of them as the Red Hat of Hadoop world. I sat down with Charles to learn more about Cloudera, what they do and where they came from.…
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Cloud Expo: Cloud.com, what’s it all about?
Tonight at the opening reception for Cloud Expo, I ran into Peder Ulander, CMO of Cloud.com. We found a quiet spot off the show floor and I got him to tell all about Cloud.com, where they’ve been and where they’re going. Some of the ground Peder covers What is cloud.com, where does it play in…
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BitNami Cloud Hosting: a demo and chat with the CEO
Last week at the OpenStack Design Summit I met up with Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock who was accompanied by BitRock’s founder and CTO Daniel Lopez Ridruejo. Although BitRock’s recently announced BitNami Cloud Hosting currently runs solely on Amazon’s EC2, Erica and Daniel were at the OpenStack event to see if OpenStack might make sense as…
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Gettin’ the scoop on the OpenStack Design Summit
Earlier this week, I attended the first two days of the OpenStack Design Summit out in Santa Clara, CA. Before I took off I grabbed sometime with Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders and the leader of Rackpace’s OpenStack efforts. I got Jim’s thoughts on how the summit was going, how the project was…
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Eucalyptus back at OpenStack Design Summit
At the last OpenStack design summit, I sat down with Eucalyptus co-founder Graziano Obertelli and got his thoughts on the effort. This morning I bumped into a now clean-shaven Graziano and thought Id get his input on this week’s summit. Some of the ground Graziano covers: What Graziano’s goals are for this weeks OpenStack summit…
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Forrester’s James Staten on OpenStack
Earlier today the OpenStack Design Summit kicked off here at the Hyatt in Santa Clara. This four day event is bringing together developers, users and business people to discuss OpenStack and design its future. Among this morning’s attendees was James Staten Forrester Research’s cloud guru. I grabbed James at the first break and got his…
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Rackspace’s head of OpenStack talks about Facebook’s Open Compute
This morning at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto the company announced their Open Compute project Partners and kindred spirits were there to tell the story behind Open Compute and explain what they think it means to the industry. One group of kindred spirits were the individuals from Rackspace. I got some time with Jim Curry…
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Facebook, OpenCompute and Dell
Today at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook and a collection of partners such as Dell, Intel and AMD — as well as kindred spirits like RackSpace’s founder (the company behind OpenStack) and the CIO of the Department of Energy — are on hand to reveal the details behind Facebook’s first custom-built data center and…
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Dell, Equinix and Rackspace launch Free OpenStack Demo environment
OpenStack, the open source cloud platform based on code donated by NASA and Rackspace, has gained considerable traction since it was launched eight months ago. The community has rapidly grown and there have been several releases. Now its time to get potential customers trying it out and kicking the tires. With the idea of removing…
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Rackspace evolves OpenStack Governance
One of the trickiest things to get right in an open source project is the governance model. Who makes up the various boards and gets what authority is something struggled over and something that virtually no one gets right straight out of the gate. Its particularly interesting if you are a commercial entity sponsoring a…
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OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
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…