Tag: ubuntu
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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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Announcing project Sputnik Beta program
Last week project Sputnik got an official presence on dell.com. While the project is still a skunk works effort rather than a product, we are rapidly gaining traction within the company. If you’re not familiar with project Sputnik, its a laptop pilot targeted at developers and based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS. The new…
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Sputnik update: Touchpad driver now available!!!
If you’ve been following project Sputnik — a developer laptop pilot based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS — you’ll know that the biggest draw back in these initial weeks has been the lack of multi-touch support in the touchpad. For some this has been annoying, for others this has been such a pain…
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Sputnik update: Profile tool and touchpad
I’ve meant to blog more frequently around Sputnik but it’s been crazy busy marshalling resources within Dell for our little skunk works project. We have captured a lot attention within the company and are trying to leverage that attention to help beef up our core team. One of the areas outside the company we have…
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Sputnik…Wow!!
We knew that project Sputnik, the idea of creating a developer laptop based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS, would have appeal but we never could have anticipated the response we’ve gotten. To put it into perspective, the most cumulative views I’ve had of a blog entry before Sputnik was 2,700. My post introducing…
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Redmonk on Developers and Project Sputnik
Today at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit here in Oakland I grabbed sometime with Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. It was Stephen who originally brought up the idea of creating a Dell laptop running Ubuntu targeted at developers. I talked to Stephen about how he would characterize today’s world of developers and what he feels project Sputnik…
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Talking about Project Sputnik
Last Friday Cote and I took a break from the mad rush getting ready for today’s Sputnik announce and grabbed a conference room to record a short video. Below we discuss the project, how it came about, what its goals are and where it could go from here. -> Weigh in on Dell IdeaStorm: Project…
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Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop
-> Update 2/18/2013: Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe -> Update 11/29/2012: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is: Made possible by an internal…
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Mark Shuttleworth part two: Developers, DevOps & the Cloud
As I mentioned in my last entry, Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu fame stopped by Dell this morning on his way back from CES. Between meetings Mark and I did a couple of quick videos. Here is the second of the two. Whereas the first focused on the client, this one focuses on the Cloud and…
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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…
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An Update from Eucalyptus’s CTO and Founder
Yesterday at Cloud Expo I bumped in to Dr. Rich Wolski, CTO and co-founder of Cloud player, Eucalyptus. It had been a while since we had last talked so I grabbed some time with him and got him to give me the skinny: Some of the ground Rich covers: Eucalyptus’s major release which is coming…
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DCS’s Chief Geek takes us on a tour of his mini Home Lab
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has some pretty colorful folks. One of the more interesting members is Jimmy Pike, the man IDG New’s James Niccolai refered to as the “Willy Wonka of servers.” Jimmy, the self-proclaimed “chief geek” of the DCS team is the consummate tinkerer whether that involves constructing a data center in…
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Dell provides Ubuntu-powered IaaS-in-a-box
Yesterday, the announcement went out that the Dell | Canonical Enterprise Cloud, Standard Edition was out and ready for consumption. What this cloud-in-a-box allows folks to do is to set-up affordable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas)-style private clouds in their computer labs or data centers. The cool thing is that, because the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) software is…
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Mark Shuttleworth on UEC and OpenStack
Mark Shuttleworth, the ever gracious founder of Ubuntu, stopped by Dell this morning to talk to various folks about various subjects. I was able to grab some time with him between meetings and get his thoughts on a few topics. I was particularly interested in getting his thoughts on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) which will…
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Chatting with Eucalyptus Co-founder about OpenStack
Continuing in my series of videos from the OpenStack design summit this week in San Antonio, here is an interview I did yesterday with Eucalyptus systems co-founder Graziano Obertelli. Eucalyptus allows enterprises to set up open source infrastructure-as-a-service private clouds. Eucalyptus is also one of the key ingredients in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud that is…
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Dell’s hyper scale cloud efforts — Everything you wanted to know in 3 minutes
Last week a couple of us went down to San Antonio to help represent the OpenStack project at Rackspace’s partner summit. While there I met up with the VAR Guy. Mr. Guy got me chatting about Dell’s Data Center Solutions group, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Below is the resulting video he…
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Ubuntu, the Cloud and the Future — Neil Levine
After the cloud summit last week at OSCON, I sat down with Neil Levine of Canonical to see what was in store for Ubuntu cloud-wise (Canonical is a partner of ours in our cloud ISV program). Neil is the VP of Canonical’s corporate services division which handles their cloud and server products. Here’s what Neil…
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The OpenStack design summit in review
Tuesday after the OSCON cloud summit I sat down with Rick Clark over a well deserved beer. Rick is the chief architect and project lead for the OpenStack compute project that was announced on Monday. Last week I interviewed Rick on the first day of the inaugural OpenStack design summit and I wanted to catch…