June, 2011

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Filter cloud noise through a level head

Posted 10 months ago

by Nicole Smith
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I started my work week mulling over a couple of commenters on my post “Don’t Hit Snooze on the Cloud Conversation.” Part of the commenters’ critique of the cloud conversation was that there’s plenty hype, but too little hard information to support it. Nasimson said: “Every time I read the over-hyped sponsored blogs on benefits of cloud without any solid real-business case studies measuring tangible benefits, I shrug my shoulders and press Alt+F4.” To...
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Structure: Thoughts by Rich Miller of DataCenter Knowledge

Posted 10 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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To close out my series of interviews from last week’s Structure conference in San Francisco, below is the chat I had with Data Center Knowledge ‘s founder and editor, Rich Miller . Last week’s event was the 4th Structure conference that Rich attended and I got his thoughts on some of the hot topics. Some of the ground Rich covers How the discussion of cloud has evolved over the last four years (1:21) Rich’s thoughts on OpenFlow and the networking space (2...
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Structure: Learning about DevOps & Crowbar from Jesse Robbins

Posted 10 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last week on Day two of Structure the morning sessions ended with an interesting discussion moderated by James Urquhart . The session was entitled “DevOps – Reinventing the Developers Role in the Cloud Age” and featured Luke Kanies – CEO, Puppet Labs and Jesse Robbins – Co-Founder and CEO, Opscode. After lunch I ran into Jesse and got him to sit down with me and provide some more insight into DevOps as well as explain what Opscode was doing with project Crowbar ....
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Dell acknowledged for engineering excellence

Posted 10 months ago

by Andre Fuochi
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Last week we received news that the editors of R&D Magazine selected the Dell PowerEdge R810 server as one of the winners of its 49th Annual R&D 100 Awards , which salutes the 100 most technologically significant products introduced during the past year. This prestigious award highlights Dell’s overall engineering excellence, unique intellectual property and innovative approach to addressing technology challenges such as FlexMem Bridge technology. What sets this server apart, is...
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Structure: Cumulogic, a Java platform as a service

Posted 10 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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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 some time with Cumulogic’s CEO Rajesh Ramchandani and learned a bit about their new venture. Some of the ground Rajesh covers: Targeting enterprise Java PaaS for federated...
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Structure: OpenStack launches Incubation program

Posted 10 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Today was second day of the two-day Structure conference here in San Francisco. Cloud was the topic du jours with heavy referencing of big data and concepts and projects such as OpenFlow , Open Compute and OpenStack . The format consisted mainly of moderated panels seated in comfy chairs with break out sessions scheduled a couple of times during the day. While some of the panels and speakers were quite enlightening, I find the true benefit of a show like Structure comes from the networking and...
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Structure: Why are 1.0 data centers suddenly sexy?

Posted 10 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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If you’re looking for someone who is totally connected in the field of data centers, look no further that Green Data center blogger Dave Ohara . I met Dave, who is a veteran of HP, Apple and Microsoft, last year at Gartner’s data center summit and learned a lot from him at a our first meeting. I was therefore very glad to run into him yesterday at the Structure conference. I got some time with him today and asked Dave a few burning data center questions that have been on my mind. ...
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Updating that old operating system doesn’t just add new features and capabilities

Posted 10 months ago

by Franklin Flint
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In the OEM world where companies are building solutions from PC based platforms there is a reluctance to change the operating system (OS) they have spent significant resources developing their solution upon. I can understand why they may not want to assign their limited development resources on converting their applications to a new OS simply because some new OS happens to have been released. Once all of the testing, qualifying, and field experience has been completed, repeating that work again for...
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Avoiding a software “crisis” by leveraging a tier-one hardware manufacturer

Posted 11 months ago

by Karen Siuda
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Recently, I was reading a post on the blog CTO Edge. The piece, “ A Software Crisis is Waiting to Happen ,” caught by eye and I couldn’t help but dial this IT-level conversation back a bit to the OEM solutions our customers build to sell to IT customers. The quote that really got me thinking about this from the OEM perspective… As a result, there are frequently large numbers of defects in software that have to be fixed at great cost before they have an adverse impact...
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Dell Storage Forum and the emergence of a new community

Posted 11 months ago

by Gina Rosenthal
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A goal we had for the Dell Storage Forum was to bring together all users of Dell Storage - whether they use PowerVault, EqualLogic, or Compellent, into one Dell Storage community. For me, one of the biggest take-aways from the Forum was the emergence of a visible, coherent community. Community Definition One sociological definition of community holds that the following things are required to call a group of people a community: Place : Territorial or place community can be seen as...
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TIA 2011 – A telecom show with a heart of gold

Posted 11 months ago

by Franklin Flint
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The future of the telecom world has been shrouded in mystery for me since the breakdown of previous trade shows and the heavy focus on future wireless outshining the wire and fiber world that makes communications possible. With more and more Dell OEM customers falling into the Telecom space, and with partners already offering Dell’s OEM specific solutions into the same markets, I have been doubling down my research into this amazing market. I have a long history dancing around the periphery...
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Dell Storage Forum – the big fat review post

Posted 11 months ago

by Gina Rosenthal
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I've been holding off on doing my wrap-up post of the Dell Storage Forum because I wanted to wait until other folks finished posting about their conference take-aways. But you people are maniacs -- the content just keeps rolling in! :) I give up, here's my wrap-up. If I miss something you posted, or if you post something after this goes live (ahem Mr. Lund...), please add a comment with your link! Fluid data architecture The theme of the conference was Dell's fluid data architecture...
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My Cloud Expo preso: Taking the Revolutionary Approach

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last week Dell was out in force at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York as the event’s diamond sponsor. Besides the Keynote that President of Dell services Steve Schuckenbrock delivered, Dell also gave, or participated in 11 other talks . I also gave one the talks and mine focused on the revolutionary approach to the cloud and talked about how this approach was setting a new bar for IT efficiency. Here’s the deck: Taking The Revolutionary Approach To Cloud Building, How To Architect...
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Cloud Expo: Boomi case study — Enterprise Community Housing

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Earlier today at Cloud Computing Expo here in New York, Boomi CTO Rick Nucci conducted a session entitled “Cloud Integration: Best practices for IT Executives.” Rick did a great job sketching out the issues to consider and what to take into account with regards to integration. The most compelling part of the talk, however came from Pradip Sitaram , CIO of Enterprise Business Partners and Boomi customer. Enterprise is a not-for-profit that builds affordable housing across the U.S. After...
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Getting IT Contained

Posted 11 months ago

by Joy Ruff
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Today, there is a lot of buzz about implementing containment in data centers. IT organizations are grappling with the challenge of getting enough cool air to their equipment while also keeping their operating costs under control. Containment provides one method to reduce the amount of air conditioning that is being provisioned into the data center by as much as 50%. It’s interesting to look at the wide range of solutions being devised to help address this challenge. The options offered tend...
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Survey Results, is IT optimistic or pessimistic about Cloud?

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last week at Cloud Expo in New York, Dell commissioned an independent third party, Marketing Solutions Corporation, to conduct a survey of IT professionals who were attending the show. The survey, which excluded IT members of technology providers, posed a series of cloud related questions and asked the IT professionals to answer both from their point of view and from the point of view of their non-technical senior management. The results are in Not surprisingly, the 223 IT respondents were...
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Talking to RightScale about “myCloud” and their work with Zynga

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Earlier this week at Cloud Expo, I talked to both Peder Ulander of Cloud.com and Rich Wolski of Eucalyptus about their involvement with RightScale ‘s myCloud solution. Yesterday I thought I would go straight to the source so I got a hold of RightScale’s VP of business development, Josh Fraser . Besides the myCloud announcement, Josh also told me about their work with Zynga . Zynga, as detailed in a recent InformationWeek article , has a hybrid cloud model. Zynga uses the Amazon...
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An Update from Eucalyptus’s CTO and Founder

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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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 out in the next 4 weeks [0:40] The RightScale myCloud integration that they announced yesterday (linking Eucalyptus private clouds with various public clouds) [2:01] Eucalyptus’s...
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Ubuntu cloud update — OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Ensemble & Orchestra

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Today when I was walking the floor at the Cloud Expo here in New York, I ran into fellow Austinite Dustin Kirkland . Dustin is the manager for systems integration team for Ubuntu. I got Dustin to give me the low down on the most recent UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) that concluded a few weeks ago in Budapest: Some of the ground that Dustin covers The big areas of focus on the server side coming out of Budapest Getting behind OpenStack as the Ubuntu IaaS platform [1:09] The...
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Cloud.com on OpenStack and powering RightScale’s myCloud

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Last night at Cloud Expo , I got some time with Cloud.com ‘s CMO Peder Ulander to learn how they are working with two key partners, OpenStack and RightScale . Peder told me how OpenStack is a key relationship for Cloud.com and gave me a quick overview of today’s announcement that Cloud.com is powering RightScale’s myCloud Private Cloud offering: Some of the ground Peder covers: Open Stack: The development work Cloud.com is doing on OpenStack; their work on a Swift implementation;...
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Cloud Expo: Cloud.com, what’s it all about?

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Tonight at the opening reception for Cloud Expo , I ran into Peder Ulander , CMO of Cloud.com . We found a quiet spot off the show floor and I got him to tell all about Cloud.com, where they’ve been and where they’re going. Some of the ground Peder covers What is cloud.com, where does it play in the cloud ecosystem and what does it help customers do? [01:22] Who are some of Cloud.com’s customers (hint: Nokia, Zynga, Korean Telecom…) and in what industries are...
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Cloud Expo: Talking to Rick Nucci, Boomi CTO

Posted 11 months ago

by Barton George—Director, Web & Tech Vertical Market
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Today, day one of the Cloud Computing Expo kicked off here at the Javits center in New York city. The event began with a keynote delivered by Steve Schuckenbrock , president of Dell Services. Dell is the Diamond sponsor at the event and Steve talked about finding the real business value in cloud computing and the business of “ Yes, now .“ Another of today’s speaker was the founder and CTO of Boomi , Rick Nucci . Boomi provides a SaaS-based cloud integration offering and was acquired...
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Dell Storage Forum Day 2 - the virtual era is fluid

Posted 11 months ago

by Gina Rosenthal
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Yesterday was day 2 of the Dell Storage Forum (see this post for a recap of day 1). Day 2 was a continuation of information for the partner channels, as well as instructor-led training and hands-on labs for customers. The first general session was led by Greg Davis (VP and GM of global commercial channels for Dell) and Brian Bell (executive director of worldwide sales for Dell Compellent). They talked to our partners about how to bring fluid data architecture to our shared customers. The hands...
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Dell Storage Forum – preview reviews, and what’s on deck for Day 1

Posted 11 months ago

by Gina Rosenthal
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I'm writing this from the Dell Storage Forum Fluid Blogger's Lounge. We still have some set up to do - the hotel IT guys are here right now setting up some ethernet drops for us. We should be ready to rock and roll tomorrow morning! I thought I'd take a minute to share some of the great posts folks have made as they are getting ready to come outo Orlando, and then let y'all know what we'll be doing today, on the official Day 1 of the Dell Storage Forum. Preview Reviews...
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Dell Storage Forum Tweet of the Day – we need your help!

Posted 11 months ago

by Gina Rosenthal
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If you are in Orlando for the Dell Storage Forum, you are eligible to participate in the Tweet of the Day contest. Just do what you would normally do at a conference – tweet your thoughts, observations, etc. Use the hashtag #dellsf11. If we think your tweet is the best, you will win a $25 gift card. (check out the General Info section of your conference guide). We need the community’s help to identify the best tweets. If you see a good tweet, please retweet it. Make sure the #dellsf11...

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