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  • Harnessing Kubernetes – Cloud Foundry Container Runtime

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    A few weeks ago I attended Cloud Foundry summit Europe 2017 held in Basel, Switzerland.  One of the more interesting topics that came up was the “Cloud Foundry Container Runtime,” an effort formerly known as “Kubo.” Kubo, which comes from “Kubernetes on Bosh,” was created jointly by Pivotal and Google in order to provide a simple…

  • Native Hybrid Cloud — The Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer Platform in a Box

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    A few weeks ago at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform event I met Drew Dimmick of EMC.  Drew heads up product management for EMC’s Native Hybrid Cloud offering.  Native Hybrid Cloud, or “NHC” is a complete shrink-wrapped Pivotal Cloud Foundry developer platform that can be set up in as little as two days. I grabbed some time with…

  • VMware’s Photon Platform

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    Last week I attend DockerCon 2016 in Seattle.  Besides spending time working the Dell booth, I grabbed a bunch of folks and did some short, guerrilla-style interviews.  One of my victims was Kit Colbert who heads up VMware’s cloud native applications group. With the onslaught of container-mania VMware, the 800-pound-VM gorilla, has had to take a hard look at…

  • Learning about VMware’s Photon Controller

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    Last week I headed out to San Francisco to attend Kubecon and soak in the Kubernetes and devops-ecosystem goodness.  As the event landing page explained: KubeCon 2015 is the first inaugural community Kubernetes conference, fully dedicated to education and community engagement focused on early Kubernetes, production users and contributors. As I normally do at events like this I prowled…

  • Where Dell plays in the Cloud and how we got there

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    One of the interviews I did at Dell World was a video with IT in Canada.   I did the video with Paul Cooper, Dell’s country manager for Canada. In the first half of the video I talk about how Dell got into the cloud and where we play in the space.  In the second half…

  • Cloud Foundry picks up Crowbar to speed installation

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    In case you’re not familiar with Cloud Foundry, it’s an open source Platform as a Service project initiated at VMware.  More specifically it provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails. The project began two years…

  • Talking to the Head of VMware’s Cloud Business

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    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…