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Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

Dell Boomi Announces New Milestones and Partnerships

By Ben Kepes on February 8, 2013

Only days after the announcement that Dell was going to return to private ownership, Dell subsidiary Boomi has come out with some news about its integration platform This is really timely given the near universal acknowledgement that software lies at the core of Dell’s future (more on this in a later post) and that it […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged boomi, dell, deloitte, IBM, infosys, personal computer, rick nucci, SnapLogic, wipro | 1 Response

Hewlett Packard: a tale of many clouds

Hewlett Packard: a tale of many clouds

By Paul Miller on December 13, 2012

Hewlett Packard used its Discover event in Frankfurt last week to reassert the company’s cloud credentials. Public, private, hybrid; HP is painting pictures that encompass them all, whilst seeking to protect hardware revenues and reassure conservative executives at some of its largest and most profitable customers. But HP has been here before, making bold claims […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, dell, dell world, discover2012, Enterprise Computing, Frankfurt, hewlett packard, hp cloud, HP Discover, HPDiscover, hybrid cloud, michael dell, openstack, private cloud, public cloud, Service level agreement, sla, vmware

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

By Ben Kepes on October 22, 2012

I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or, more often, hat already is. Anyway – with that said, the latest IaaS MQ is pretty […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Bob Gill, cloud computing, dell, fujitsu, gartner, magic quadrant, OpSource, platform as a service, simon wardley | 1 Response

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

TechCrunch Wrote a Post, Oracle got Pissy. Sigh

By Ben Kepes on August 13, 2012

So Alex Williams (a great guy, good friend and awesome cloud pundit) wrote a post a week or two ago entitled “Why The Open Cloud Wins And Oracle Loses When IT Gets Virtualized.” (subtle huh?) Oracle wasn’t overly happy at Alex’s comments and counter posted saying that “TechCrunch is Clueless about Oracle Cloud.” So… some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged blog, databases, dell, Florian Müller, google, java, netsuite, Oracle, Oracle Corporation, techcrunch | 1 Response

Premature Dell Obituary?

Premature Dell Obituary?

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 13, 2012

Last week, Pando Daily had an obituary written for Dell (previous CloudAve coverage) based entirely on their dismal performance in the consumer sector. In a week and a half, Dell will announce its second-quarter earnings results. Expect a bloodbath. In the first quarter, back in May, Dell gave the market a goose egg — analysts […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged consumer, dell, Enterprise, insights, obituary, pandodaily, services, software

not *this* Sputnik...

Project Sputnik–A Beachhead to Dell’s Brave new World

By Ben Kepes on August 2, 2012

At OSCON Dell announced the inclusion of Project Sputnik into its generally available product line. For those not in the loop, Project Sputnik is a developer focused Ubuntu based laptop, the unit is based on the beautiful Dell XPS13 and comes with Ubuntu preloaded. While many see this as merely

Posted in Technology | Tagged Datameer, dell, github, openstack, pentaho, Project Sputnik, ubuntu

GigaOM Pro report on Hadoop and cluster management

GigaOM Pro report on Hadoop and cluster management

By Paul Miller on July 24, 2012

My latest piece of work for GigaOM Pro just went live. Scaling Hadoop clusters: the role of cluster management is available to GigaOM Pro subscribers, and was underwritten by StackIQ. Thanks to everyone who took the time to speak with me during the preparation of this report. As the blurb describes, From Facebook to Johns […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged Administrivia, Apache Hadoop, big data, cluster management, dell, facebook, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, hadoop, IBM, Johns Hopkins University, rocks, stackiq

Preparing Developers For Tomorrow’s Cloudy World

Preparing Developers For Tomorrow’s Cloudy World

By Ben Kepes on July 19, 2012

As we started talking about extending the CloudU content beyond the introductory series of modules, one area that people asked us time and time again to give some thought to was the changes that developers would see in their working life because of the cloud. One only needs to take a look at the CloudU LinkedIn […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged Apigee, CloudComputing, dell, deploycon, platform as a service, Sam Ramji

VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

By Ben Kepes on July 2, 2012

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally announces the fraught with stress acquisition of Quest and marks a rapid heating up of the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, bmc, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, dell, DynamicOps, rightscale, vmware | 2 Responses

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

By Ben Kepes on April 17, 2012

Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniably truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and automate said cloud are becoming increasingly critical – this is even more the case in an ecosystem that is becoming ever more heterogeneous. Given this fact, […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged dell, morphlabs, openstack, opscode, puppet, Puppet Labs

SnapLogic Adds Monitoring to Integration

SnapLogic Adds Monitoring to Integration

By Ben Kepes on March 29, 2012

Application integration in a cloudy world is an important and often forgotten area that I am predicting will see significant movement in the months ahead. One of the long standing providers in the field who still remains independent (after Dell’s purchase of Boomi and IBM’s purchase of CastIron) is SnapLogic (more on them here) who […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged boomi, cloud computing, dell, IBM, salesforce.com, SnapLogic

Dell’s Rock and Hard Spot

Dell’s Rock and Hard Spot

By Dave Michels on February 24, 2012

The Apple iPad is booming, but does that mean the PC is dying? The enterprise seems to to view the iPad not as an OR, but an AND. But the consumer PC is not so resilient. This week Dell reported Fourth Quarter Results: “Dell Inc.’s (DELL) fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell 18% as the computer maker saw revenue […]

Posted in Business, Technology | Tagged dell, hewlett packard, ipad, microsoft, personal computer, telecom, vmware

Microsoft Killed the Netbook – not the Tablet

Microsoft Killed the Netbook – not the Tablet

By Dave Michels on December 19, 2011

What we have here is a case of the victors writing the history book. We learned recently that Dell decided to discontinue selling Netbooks. Netbooks? You remember them – the small, inexpensive notebook-like computers with a lightweight operating system. They came in a few different flavors of Windows and Linux. They were the rage a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged dell, linux, Microsoft Windows, netbook, tech

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 17, 2011

This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, chef, Cloudfoundry, crowbar, dell, enstratus, opscode, paas, paasfuture, platform services, rightscale, ubuntu, vmware | 2 Responses

Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar

Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 3, 2011

Dell recently announced an OpenStack cloud solution that came with an installer, called Crowbar, which makes installation of OpenStack Cloud on bare metal servers seamless and less time consuming. In fact, with Crowbar, one can install OpenStack cloud on a rack within 30 mins or so. Dell has decided to open source Crowbar under Apache […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, chef, cloud computing, crowbar, dell, iaas, Infrastructure services, open source, openstack, opscode | 1 Response

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