Tag: video
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Dell IoT lab: Smart building demo
Continuing with the third of four entries focusing on Dell’s Internet of Things lab, today we have a two-part look at the smart building demo. In the first clip, Product Technologist, Raja Tamilarasan takes us through a smart building showing how the sensors are attached to Wyse gateway which constantly monitors the data it receives. …
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SXSW: Talking with AllDigital
Im currently downtown at SXSW after having had lunch with a customer, AllDigital. AllDigital delivers digital content from the cloud to multiple endpoints for corporations and entertainment properties. They are here at SXSW to support some of their customers and prospect for new ones. Before Tim Napoleon, AllDigital’s Chief of strategy, took off for…
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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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Dell Acquires Enstratius — So what do they do?
Last week at DevOps Days Austin, I did a couple of interviews with John Willis (aka @botchagalupe), VP Client Services and Enablement at Enstratius. The first video dealt with devops and the idea of culture as a secret weapon in the war of hiring. The second one was about Enstratius the company, which coincidentally today Dell…
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PowerEdge C410x — Whiteboard topology
In the last of my GPGPU/PowerEdge C410x trilogy I offer up a whiteboard session with the system’s architect, Joe Sekel. Some of the topics Joe walks through: How does having remote GPGPUs connected via cable back to a server compare in performance to having the GPGPUs embedded in the server? The topology of the PCI express x16…
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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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My quick spiel on the cloud
At OSCON last week I ran into a compadre from a previous life, Fred Kohout. Fred is now the CMO at UC4, a pure play software automation company, and he, like I, was in Portland to attend OSCON and the Cloud Summit. At the summit Fred did to me what I’ve done to so many…
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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…
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OpenStack Compute – talking to the chief architect
Rick Clark used to be the engineering manager at Canonical for Ubuntu server and security as well as lead on their virtualization for their cloud efforts. He’s now at Rackspace and is applying much of what he learned while at Canonical to his new gig as project lead and chief architect of the just announced…
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Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage
The first code that is available from the OpenStack project, and its available today, is the code for the storage effort, “Object Storage.” The man at the technical helm of this effort is Will Reese of Rackspace. Will’s daytime job is development manager and system architect for Rackspace’s Cloud Files, the source of the code…
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Introducing OpenStack — an open source cloud platform
Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack, an open source cloud platform that they are collaborating on and building a community around. Last week the inaugural OpenStack design summit was held here in Austin with 20 companies from around the world, including Dell, participating. During one of the breaks I grabbed sometime with Rackspace’s cloud president,…
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NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
At the inaugural design summit for OpenStack, an open source set of technologies for building clouds, Nebula’s chief architect Josh McKenty played a prominent role in leading the assembled folks. I caught Josh during a break and chatted with him about Nebula and NASA’s role in the newly announced OpenStack project. Here’s what he had…
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Ubuntu founder stops by Round Rock
My favorite cosmonaut-coder Mark Shuttleworth stopped by our offices this morning for a visit. Mark is the founder of both the Linux distribution Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical. Mark and I sat down in the lobby and caught up. Here is a short interview we recorded. Some of the topics Mark tackles: Where Canonical…
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Talking to the Head of VMware’s Cloud Business
Here is the second in my three part series on Virtualization and the cloud. Today’s entry focuses on the 800 pound gorilla in the virtualization space, VMware. At last month’s Gartner’s Data Center conference, right after his standing room only presentation, I grabbed some time with VMware’s Mr. Cloud, Dan Chu . Hear what he…
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Microsoft, Virtualization and the Cloud
Happy New Year to all! For the first week of this new year I’m going to focus on virtualization and the cloud. Kicking off this mini-series is an interview I did last month at the Gartner DataCenter conference with David Greschler, director of virtualization strategy at Microsoft. I caught up with David right after his…
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Talking to Roger of Citrix about now and Xen
Last month at the Interop/Web 2.0 I was able to drag Citrix’s Roger Klorese away from booth duty for an interview. Roger is a Sr. Director at Citrix who works on Xen server and the Essentials product family. Here is what he had to say: Some of the topics Roger tackles What Roger has been…
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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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Adam of Oracle talks about Oracle VM and the Cloud
A couple of weeks ago on the show floor of Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara I ran into Adam Hawley, Director of product management for Oracle VM. When Adam finished his stint in the Oracle booth he sat down with me to talk about what was going on at Oracle in the world of…