There have been a lot of rumblings in the press about Dell going private lately. We care deeply, because we work closely with Dell Corporation and many of our short-term and medium-term goals can be affected by unpredictability in its behavior.  Now that the story is confirmed, I am reading articles (like this one by [...]

There have been many discussions in the cloud landscape comparing VMware and OpenStack. In fact, it’s one of the most popular topics among those thinking about using OpenStack. I’ve given a couple of presentations to the SF Bay OpenStack Meetup on this topic and many peers have asked me to write about it. To make it [...]

With news this past week that BlackBerry’s Not Dead Yet, Consumerization of IT is again topical. If you think that means that the workplace technology debate revolves around iPad vs. Android, you may be missing a fundamental point. Hint: think OpenStack. Consumers are fickle, and expect constant innovation. And to be sure, smartphone vendors and [...]

A few months ago, I described the design of on-disk per-user encryption of objects in Swift, so I’m excited to announce a first working prototype of this feature. It has very basic functionality at the moment, but most of its components are pluggable and can be enhanced or replaced with more advanced versions. We already [...]

With the biggest holiday of the year behind us, it’s time to look past the post-prandial carbohydrate bloat and what to do with all those holiday leftovers. Now, think about what you’re going to make 2013 even more fun at work than you had in 2012. A good place to start: apply for a job [...]

For those of you who missed our recent webcast on ‘Storage as a Service with OpenStack Cloud’ a week or two back, I’ve listed the questions that I was asked there below for your reference. If you want to download the slides or view the recorded webcast, you can sign up for that here. “You [...]

I’m something of a political junkie. Independent of the outcome, the results of the presidential election were a letdown in that the game was over. But notwithstanding the fact that I still read Nate Silver religiously, I rarely resist the impulse to try and quantify some social phenomenon. And there are more elections coming soon [...]

There’s enough going on in the OpenStack ecosystem that you can pretty much find a comfortable niche drilling down on anything from hypervisor compatibility to driver support to who’s in the foundation. But as you find yourself working on IaaS, whether from a deployment automation perspective or just building out your cloud, it’s useful to [...]

There’s a tremendous amount of talk about the shift in the networking business from hardware-bound networking to SDN. I worry when I hear that SDN is the next ‘big data’ or ‘cloud’ trend. It makes me think that just as every application and infrastructure company is now offers ‘cloud’ and every data technology company is [...]

Sign up today. Date & Time: Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 | 10am PT | 1 PM ET | 7pm CET Following the success and popularity of our webcast earlier this year on ‘What’s new in OpenStack Folsom’, we’ve put together another online technology review of OpenStack and Storage, in a webcast next Wednesday (time and dates [...]

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