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  • On beyond Crowbar: RackN and Digital Rebar

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    Last, but not least in my KubeCon video-palooza series is an interview with RackN founder, Rob Hirschfeld.  Rob talks about their offering Digital Rebar and how it addresses composable operations. Some of the ground Rob covers How he’s taking what he did at Dell (Crowbar) and taking it beyond physical provisioning and automation. V3 is now…

  • DevOpsDays: Crowbar, where its been and where its going

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    Earlier this month at DevOpsDays here in Austin the Dell Crowbar crew hosted a session and gave a demo.  If you’re not familiar with it, Crowbar is an open source software framework written at Dell.  I grabbed some time with Crowbar architect Rob Hirschfeld and got him to recap how far we’ve come in its…

  • Dell’s Big Data escalator pitch

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    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…

  • Open source Crowbar code now available for Hadoop

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    Earlier this month we announced that Dell would be open sourcing the Crowbar “barclamps” for Hadoop.  Well today is the day and the code is now available at our github repo. Whats a Crowbar barclamp? If you haven’t heard of project Crowbar it’s a software framework developed at Dell that started out as an installation tool…

  • Developers: How to get involved with Crowbar for Hadoop

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    In the previous entry I mentioned that we have developed and will be opensourcing “barclamps” (modules that sit on top of Crowbar) for: Cloudera CDH/Enterprise, Zookeeper, Pig, Hbase, Flume and Sqoop.  All these modules will speed and ease the deployment, configuration and operation of Hadoop clusters. If you would like to get involved, check out…

  • Dell to opensource software to ease Hadoop install & management

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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

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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…

  • Rob on Hyperscale Cloud Architecture

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    Earlier this month when the Bexar release for OpenStack went live, a meet up was held in Santa Clara.  As a part of the event, a series of lightening talks were given by various OpenStack community members.  One of the speakers was Dell’s very own Rob Hirschfeld, a senior cloud solutions architect, who has been…

  • What’s happening — A Dell / OpenStack Update

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    A couple of days ago Bret Piatt, who handles Technical Alliances for OpenStack, came up to Austin to have further discussion with our team’s software engineers around OpenStack.  If you’re not familiar with OpenStack, it is an open source cloud platform founded on contributed code from Rackspace and NASA’s Nebula cloud. The project was kicked…