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OpenStack “Operating Hyperscale Clouds” preso given at Design Summit on 4/27.
Today, I gave the a presentation that is the sequel to the “bootstrapping the hyperscale clouds.“ The topic addresses concerns raised by the BlackOps concept but brings up history and perspectives...
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The unexpected openness of OpenStack: why it’s important to learn from...
During the OpenStack Design Conference, Forrester’s James Staten (@Staten7) raved about OpenStack’s transparency compared to AWS. Within the enclave of OpenStack fan boys supports (Dell alone sent...
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#OpenStack Blueprint for Cloud Installer (#crowbar, #apache2)
Tonight I submitted a formal OpenStack Common blue print for Crowbar as a cloud installer. My team at Dell considers this to be our first step towards delivering the code as open source (next few...
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Austin CloudCamp 7/20 – Lightening Talk
If you’re in Austin on 7/20 then come to the 2011 ATX CloudCamp @ 6pm (Downtown) In addition to the normal great unconference format, I’ll be giving one of the lightning talks. My topic will be about...
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Videos about Crowbar, CloudOps, and Dell OpenStack Cloud
I’m not usually a big fan of launch videos (too much markitecture); however, these turned out to be nice and meaty. The meaty part explains why it looks like I’m about to eat a big sandwich in the...
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Crowbar near-term features: increasing DevOps mojo and brewing Diablo
We’ve been so busy working on getting RHEL support ready to drop into the Crowbar repos that I have not had time to post about what’s coming next for Crowbar. The RHEL addition has required a...
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Dell Crowbar Project: Open Source Cloud Deployer expands into the Community
Note: Cross posted on Dell Tech Center Blogs. Background: Crowbar is an open source cloud deployment framework originally developed by Dell to support our OpenStack and Hadoop powered solutions....
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Seven Cloud Success Criteria to consider before you pick a platform
From my desk at Dell, I have a unique perspective. In addition to a constant stream of deep customer interactions about our many cloud solutions (even going back pre-OpenStack to Joyent &...
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The real workloads begin: Crowbar’s Sophomore Year
Given Crowbar‘s frenetic Freshman year, it’s impossible to predict everything that Crowbar could become. I certainly aspire to see the project gain a stronger developer community and the seeds of this...
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Do Be Dense! Dell C8000 unit merges best of bladed and rackable servers
“Double wide” is not a term I’ve commonly applied to servers, but that’s one of the cool things about this new class of servers that Dell, my employer, started shipping today. My team has been itching...
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Mayflies and Dinosaurs (extending Puppies and Cattle)
Josh McKenty and I were discussing the common misconception of the “Puppies and Cattle” analogy. His position is not anti-puppy! He believes puppies are sometimes unavoidable and should be isolated...
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Ops is Ops, except when it ain’t. Breaking down the impedance mismatches...
We’ve made great strides in ops automation, but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to ops because abstractions have limitations. Perhaps it’s my Industrial Engineering background, I’m a huge fan of...
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Physical Ops = Plumbers of the Internet. Celebrating dirty IT jobs 8 bit style
I must be crazy because I like to make products that take on the hard and thankless jobs in IT. Its not glamorous, but someone needs to do them. Analogies are required when explaining what I do to...
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Short lived VM (Mayflies) research yields surprising scheduling benefit
Last semester, Alex Hirschfeld (my son) did a simulation to explore the possible efficiency benefits of the Mayflies concept proposed by Josh McKenty and me. Mayflies swarming from Wikipedia In the...
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Podcast – Ian Rae talks Cloud, Innovation, and Updates from Google Next 2018
Joining us this week is Ian Rae, CEO and Founder CloudOps who recorded the podcast during the Google Next conference in 2018. Highlights 1 min 55 sec: Define Cloud from a CloudOps perspective Business...
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