Tag: paas
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Red Hat launches OpenShift v3.1, full of Docker/Kubernetes goodness
Im just getting around to publishing my interviews from KubeCon back in November Today’s interview features Red Hat’s Grant Shipley, director of developer advocacy for “container application platform” OpenShift. Grant talks about the launching of OpenShift v3.1 and what’s ahead. Some of the ground Grant covers: Announcing 3.1, the latest upstream version of Red Hat’s open source project OpenShift…
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Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
The next interview in my series from Dell World features Julio Tapia of Red Hat. Julio is a global director for Red Hat’s platform as a service, OpenShift. I got Julio to give me a quick overview of OpenShift, where Dell plays and what they are planning going forward. Some of the ground Julio covers…
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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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Azure architect talks about Kubernetes and the future of PaaS
Here is the third of four interviews that I conducted last week at the Cloud Standards Customer Council. The theme of the conference was “preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption” and there was quite a bit of talk around the role that PaaS would play in that future. The last session of the morning, before…
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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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Preparing for the Post-IaaS world
Today I attended a day-long event put on here in Austin by the Cloud Standards Customer Council. It was a packed agenda focused around the theme “preparing for the post-IaaS phase of cloud adoption.” Craig Lowery, Sr Distinguished Engineer in Dell Software, chaired the event and gave the opening presentation. I grabbed some time with Craig…
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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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Structure: Cumulogic, a Java Platform as a Service
Last Thursday at Structure I ran into a couple of former Sun compadres who have started their own company in the cloud space: Cumulogic. Cumulogic is PaaS for developing Java applications and boasts the father of Java James Gosling and former Sun CIO Bill Vass as the leaders of its technical advisory board. I got…
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Dell’s Billion Dollar Baby
Today Dell is announcing that it is continuing to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to its transformation into a solutions provider, this time to the tune of $1 Billion. The goal of this investment, which is being made this year, is to provide customers with a complete set of resources…
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Architecture Overview: The Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications
Last November, Dell announced the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications. This turnkey offering is composed of Dell systems and Joyent Software along with a reference architecture all supported by Dell services. This solution enables a private Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment to support the development and testing of languages such as PHP, Perl,…
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Dell brings Joyent to the world
Joyent has been a provider of cloud services for the past five years, longer than the term cloud itself has been around. Today at a press conference in San Francisco, Dell announced the availability of the Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications which offers the software from Joyent as a turnkey platform-as-a-service offering. This private…
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The Dell / Azure Cloud & Appliance
Several months ago in the press release that announced our Cloud Solution offerings, there was a particularly cloudy paragraph that talked about Dell’s relationship with Microsoft. The paragraph ended with the sentence: “Dell and Microsoft will collaborate on the Windows Azure platform, with Dell and Microsoft offering services, and Microsoft continuing to invest in Dell…
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Talking to Joyent’s CTO and co-founder: Jason Hoffman
When I was out in the Bay Area for our launch a while back I stopped by Joyent‘s new headquarters (I actually visited them on their very first day in their new digs). I chatted with CTO Jason Hoffman about his background, what Joyent’s all about and what they are doing with Dell. Take a…
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What is ATT up to in the cloud?
A couple of weeks ago I was in New York to visit customers and attend the co-located Interop and Web 2.0 events. One of the attendees/participants I got to know there was Joe Weinman, VP of ATT’s Business Solutions. Joe has been focusing a lot on the cloud lately so I thought I’d put down…
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Learning about Heroku – The Ruby PaaS Solution
Kicking off my series of videos from last week’s Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, here is a chat I had with Oren Teich, of Heroku. Heroku, if you’re not familiar is a 2-yr old Platform as-a-Service company targeting Ruby developers. Oren recently joined Heroku as their head of product management and had the following to…
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Talking to the Co-Founder of Rackspace Cloud
Earlier this month at Cloud World/Open World I bumped into Jonathan Bryce one of the two founders of the cloud platform formerly known as “Mosso” (now known as Rackspace Cloud). Last year when I interviewed Jonathan, I did an audio podcast. This time around I was armed with my Flip Mino and caught it all on…