Tag: openstack
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Native Hybrid Cloud — The Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer Platform in a Box
A few weeks ago at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform event I met Drew Dimmick of EMC. Drew heads up product management for EMC’s Native Hybrid Cloud offering. Native Hybrid Cloud, or “NHC” is a complete shrink-wrapped Pivotal Cloud Foundry developer platform that can be set up in as little as two days. I grabbed some time with…
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Looking back at the original OpenStack design summit in 2010
Yesterday the OpenStack summit kicked off here in Austin, TX. This week’s event is being attended by 7,500 individuals. To give some perspective on the project’s growth, at the inaugural design summit back in 2010 there were 75 people in attendance. The purpose of this initial invite-only event was to “develop a roadmap for the first…
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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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Talking to Red Hat about how they are working with Dell on OpenStack
Last week I participated in Dell World with my trusty Flipcam (yes, I still have one, if it ain’t broke…) and caught a bunch of interviews. Several, not surprisingly, dealt with the cloud space. The first of these is with Red Hat Sr. Solution Architect, Ian Pilcher who was on the expo floor. Ian was…
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Presenting Cloud at Harvard
In June I got to attend and present at the Harvard University IT Summit. The one-day summit, which brought together the IT departments from the 12 colleges that make up the University, consisted of talks, panels and breakout sessions. The day kicked off with a keynote from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen of The Innovator’s Dilemma and “disruptive innovation”…
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Talking SwiftStack with Founder and CEO Joe Arnold
At Venture Beat’s CloudBeat I moderated two panels, the first was with PayPal and Puppet Labs and the second was with Disney, CloudStack and SwiftStack. After the Disney panel I grabbed some time with SwiftStack’s CEO and Founder Joe Arnold. SwiftStack is based on the OpenStack storage project, Swift, and helps operations teams implement and manage…
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Dell to go Partner route for public cloud
As you may be aware Dell has been offering and hosting a public, multi-tentant IaaS cloud offering. After getting that business off the ground and many customer conversations, we’ve come to realize that the greatest way we can provide value for our customers is to focus our investments on more strategic components of the cloud and…
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Time Lapse: Building Dell’s Big Data/OpenStack MDC — allowing customers to test at hyper scale
Back in September I posted an entry about the Modular Data Center that we set up in the Dell parking lot. Here is a time lapse video showing the MDC and the location being built out. The MDC allows customers to test solutions at scale. It is running OpenStack and various Big Data goodies such…
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EnterpriseDB’s new Postgres cloud database
A little while ago, EnterpriseDBs VP of Biz Dev, Sean Doherty popped in for a visit. While he was here I got him to tell me what EnterpriseDB, the certified professional distribution of the PostgreSQL open source DB, has been up to and fill me in on their new cloud database. Some of the ground…
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Dell’s Big Data escalator pitch
At our sales kickoff in Vegas, Rob Hirschfeld chose a unique vehicle to succinctly convey our Big Data story here at Dell. Check out the video below to hear one of our chief software architects for our Big Data and OpenStack solutions explain, in less than 90 seconds, what we are up to in 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…