Tag: oscon
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What the heck’s a Unikernel? And why should you care
Just when the tech world was starting to get their heads around containers, along come unikernels. Like containers, unikernels have been around in some form or another for quite awhile. Their resurgence has to do in large part to their container-like functionality. In a nutshell, unikernels combine an uber-stripped down version of an OS packaged with…
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Introducing Kubernetes 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing foundation
This morning at OSCON a special event was held to announce the launch of Kubernetes 1.0 (Google’s open source container management framework) as well as the introduction of the Cloud Native Computing foundation. One of the key speakers at the event was Craig McLuckie of Google who is a founding member of Kubernetes’ team. Craig has also been working with the Linux…
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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: Talking to Andrew Parker of Puppet labs
Im now at the penultimate interview in my video series from OSCON 13. Today’s installment features Puppet Labs‘ Andrew Parker, team lead for the core platform team. Check out what Andrew has to say: Some of the ground Andrew covers What is Puppet and how does it work? DevOps: How does Puppet help bridge the…
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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: Apigee and APIs
The week before last when I was out at OSCON I caught up with Sam Ramji VP of Strategy at Apigee. I got Sam to tell me about his company and the future of APIs. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the ground Sam covers: What does Apigee do. How well is the…
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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…
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OSCON: The Project Sputnik story & giveaway
Last week, Dell was out in force in Portland, Oregon, representing at OSCON. We had a booth and gave a few talks. The talk that Cote and I delivered covered the story behind the Project Sputnik: Connecting the client to the cloud – The Sputnik Story : Give it away, give it away, give it…
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OSCON: Tim O’Reilly chats with Mark Shuttleworth
Here’s the last of my posts from OSCON. The conversation below took place right after Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. Tim and Mark start off by talking about Mark’s persistence of vision and what keeps driving him. At the 2:00 minute mark they talk about Project Sputnik, the buzz around it at OSCON and where it has…
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OSCON: Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote
On the Thursday at OSCON, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth gave a great keynote entitled, “Making Magic From Cloud To Client.” He did the entire keynote and live demo on a project Sputnik laptop (a Dell XPS13 running Ubuntu 12.04LTS)! Here it is in its entirety: Some of the ground Mark covers: A fantastic…
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OSCON: Project Sputnik Explained + Coverage recap
The week before last I had a fantastic time at OSCON, seeing old friends and making new ones. As always, the hallway track was the one I found most enlightening. On the second day we announced that project Sputnik would be going from project to product in the fall and got a fantastic response (see…
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Project Sputnik to go from Pilot to Product
A couple of weeks ago we announced a Beta program for the four-month old Project Sputnik — an effort to investigate creating a developer focused laptop based on Ubuntu and Dell’s XPS13 laptop. Since the beta announcement we have received thousands of applications from around the world. This tremendous response, on top of fantastic amount…
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Does Hadoop compete with or complement the data warehouse?
Dell’s chief architect for big data, Aurelian Dumitru (aka. A.D.) presented a talk at OSCON the week before last with the heady title, “Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Data Flow Analysis and Optimization.” The session, which was well attended, explored the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse. AD posted a fairly detailed overview…
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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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OSCON: ex-NASA cloud lead on his OpenStack startup, Piston
Last week at OSCON in Portland, I dragged Josh McKenty away from the OpenStack one-year anniversary (that’s what Josh is referring to at the very end of the interview) to do a quick video. Josh, who headed up NASA’s Nebula tech team and has been very involved with OpenStack from the very beginning has recently…