Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing

July 21, 2010

Here are my slides from today’s talk at today’s OSCON, Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing presented with John Willis (VP of Services at Opscode) and Alex Honor (Founder of DTO Solutions and Leader of the Control Tier Project).  The idea we hoped to convey is that integration between open source tools can help [...]

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Is OpenStack Cloud Computing Rocket Science?

July 19, 2010

There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more [...]

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Opscode, Turning Sysadmins into Superheroes

June 21, 2010

For the last few years I have had an interest in configuration management of IT infrastructure. While by no means an expert I have a considerable amount of experience with the problems associated with mass server configuration and have come to believe it also one of the most under-served disciplines in systems management. In a previous [...]

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The How, What and Why of Leadership

June 20, 2010

I saw this presentation linked from my new co-worker  Josh’s blog, it’s Simon Sinek’s TED talk on How Great Leaders Inspire Action. He uses Apple as an example of a success and Tivo as an example of a failure. Sinek asserts that leading companies lead because of the why they do what they do not [...]

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Zenoss on FLOSS Weekly

June 19, 2010

It was a lot of fun to be a guest on Twit.tv’s FLOSS Weekly with Randal Schwartz and Simon Phipps this week. My partner in crime, Zenoss Community Manager Matt Ray, and I gave them the lowdown on Zenoss and had a great time talking to the two excellent co-hosts. If you are podcast listener [...]

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