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Dell to opensource software to ease Hadoop install & management

Nov 8, 2011

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It wouldn’t be surprising if you were surprised to learn that Dell is developing software. To say that this is an area we haven’t been known for in the past would be an understatement. While we may not pose a direct threat to Microsoft any time soon, we have been coding in a few focused…

Crowbar: Where its been and where its going

Oct 24, 2011

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Barton George

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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…

Structure: Learning about DevOps & Crowbar from Jesse Robbins

Jun 27, 2011

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Barton George

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Last week on Day two of Structure the morning sessions ended with an interesting discussion moderated by James Urquhart. The session was entitled “DevOps – Reinventing the Developers Role in the Cloud Age” and featured Luke Kanies – CEO, Puppet Labs and Jesse Robbins – Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode. After lunch I ran into Jesse and…

Citrix to launch OpenStack Distro (with a little help from Rackspace and Dell)

May 25, 2011

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Barton George

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Today at Citrix Synergy, Citrix announced “Project Olympus,” their up coming OpenStack distribution. In case you’re not familiar with it, OpenStack is an open source cloud platform based on the code from NASA’s Nebula cloud as well as Rackspace’s storage code. The OpenStack project kicked of last summer and already has gathered support from over…

OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW

Mar 15, 2011

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Barton George

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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…

OpenStack heads into Interstellar Overdrive

Mar 8, 2011

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Barton George

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One small step for OpenStack, one giant step for mankind! Ok, that may be taking it a bit far but today there is some exciting news that Dell and Rackspace have announced. If OpenStack is new to you it’s the open source cloud platform based off of the Nebula cloud code base donated by NASA…

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Dell to opensource software to ease Hadoop install & management

Crowbar: Where its been and where its going

Structure: Learning about DevOps & Crowbar from Jesse Robbins

Citrix to launch OpenStack Distro (with a little help from Rackspace and Dell)

OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW

OpenStack heads into Interstellar Overdrive