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2026 14

  1. Shipwright: Container Builds on Kubernetes and the CNCF Sandbox
  2. Beyond Hardened Images: Edera’s Approach to Production Security
  3. When Hardware Matters Again: Jonathan Bryce on AI Infrastructure
  4. Exodos Labs: The SBOM is where security starts, not where it ends
  5. Open Source, AI and the Bear — Where We’re Winning (and Where We’re Not)
  6. ops0 in the Age of AI: From Open Source Visibility to Infrastructure Governance
  7. The Gap Your Observability Tools Aren’t Watching
  8. Mendral Built on Claude. Now Its Team Is Joining Anthropic
  9. Shadow IT at Agent Scale — Obot’s on It.
  10. Building the Agentic Enterprise: What WSO2con Got Right, and What’s Still Missing
  11. Who Cares What You Call an Agent: John Willis on Authority, Scope, and Governance
  12. The Five Barriers to Enterprise AI Adoption
  13. DeepSeek on the Horizon: Distillation, Defiance, and Clusters in Inner Mongolia
  14. The 5 Tech Podcasts I Listen to (and You Should Too)

2025 12

  1. Infrastructure Is Eating the World: Circonomics and the Cult of “Bigger Is Better”
  2. ChatGPT-5’s Short-Lived Simplicity: One Week of Clean Design
  3. You Can’t Build an AI Strategy Without a Data Strategy
  4. OpenAI’s Version Mess and Nutty Pricing Strategy
  5. Meta, Llama and Malcolm in the Middle – Prime Time Open Washing
  6. AI Is Struggling to Find Use Cases
  7. Why Storage Matters in Every Stage of the AI Pipeline
  8. Rethinking Monitoring: How Catchpoint Shifts Focus to the End User
  9. Fortinet CNAPP Review: AI-Powered Cloud Security and Composite Threat Detection
  10. How Infoblox Reinvents Network Services for the Multi-Cloud Era
  11. How DeepSeek R1 Triggered a $1 Trillion NASDAQ Drop and caught the AI Industry by surprise
  12. Dell’s Developer line turns 10 — Looking back at a Project Sputnik’s first decade

2024 1

  1. My experience using Google’s new image generator – a tale of consternation, refinement and a maddening inability to count pigs

2020 1

  1. Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)

2019 8

  1. Project Sputnik: Want to join the cause?
  2. XPS 13 developer edition portfolio up 8X in the States, 6 core and more!
  3. Dell’s Linux landing page goes live!
  4. Introducing the XPS 13 developer edition, 9th generation
  5. Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the Dell Precision 5540, 7540 and 7540 developer editions
  6. 2019 Desktop developer survey
  7. Announcing the budget-friendly, Linux-based Dell Precision mobile workstations
  8. The new Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available in the US, Europe and Canada

2018 7

  1. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS now available on Dell Precision mobile workstations
  2. Sputnik turns 6! Presenting the folks behind it
  3. Dell Precision 5530 Developer Edition Now Available!
  4. The XPS 13 Developer Edition goes Bionic, Welcome 18.04!
  5. Precision Developer Editions 7530/7730 now online — Welcome the power pair
  6. Welcome the new Dell Precision developer editions! Gen 3 of the beefy line up
  7. XPS 13 Developer Edition — the 7th gen is here!

2017 7

  1. Project Sputnik Turns Five!
  2. EdgeX – Open Source IoT effort hosted by the Linux Foundation
  3. Harnessing Kubernetes – Cloud Foundry Container Runtime
  4. Open Source Summit videos – Sputnik, Bitnami, ARM and OpenShift
  5. Video Interviews from Cloud Foundry Summit
  6. Ubuntu-based All-in-One joins the brawn brothers
  7. Welcome the new Ubuntu-based Precision line-up — Mobile Workstations plus a new All-in-One

2016 39

  1. Video Walk thru of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition (9350)
  2. Digital Transformation: The Perils and the Keys to Success
  3. Speeding Up App Development for the Digital Enterprise – A conversation
  4. The New XPS 13 Developer Edition Lands in Europe, United States and Canada
  5. Dell EMC’s Ceph Performance and Sizing Guide for the PowerEdge R730XD
  6. Microsoft and Containers
  7. EMC Dojo – Teaching the way of Modern Software Development
  8. An Interview with Cloud Foundry Foundation’s CEO, Sam Ramji
  9. The Spring Platform, Where its Been and Where its Going
  10. Native Hybrid Cloud — The Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer Platform in a Box
  11. When Web Companies grow up they turn into Java Shops
  12. Of Linux Laptops, Open Source and Hawaiian Food
  13. EMC’s hyper converged VxRack – A Guided Tour
  14. EMC {code} — What’s it all about
  15. What the heck’s a Unikernel? And why should you care
  16. VMware’s Photon Platform
  17. Dell at DockerCon — Config guides, developer laptops, plugins and more
  18. Ubuntu comes to the Windows desktop — OpenStack summit
  19. Where LXD fits within the virtualization and container landscape — OpenStack Summit
  20. Looking back at the original OpenStack design summit in 2010
  21. Live in Europe: Next gen XPS 13 developer edition
  22. XPS 13 Developer Edition launches in US, Ubuntu-based Workstations available worldwide
  23. The Project Sputnik story: Innovation at a large company?
  24. Pivotal Labs: Teaching Clients to Fish Agilely
  25. DevOps, Microservices and Containers – a High Level Overview
  26. Dell launches Debian-based Open Networking OS
  27. Working on Triton in the lab, what’s on the horizon
  28. Mark Shuttleworth talks 16.04 LTS, Snaps & Charms
  29. Installation details for Joyent’s Triton — Dell CTO lab
  30. The platform supporting Joyent’s Triton — Dell CTO lab
  31. Intro: Setting up Joyent’s Triton in Dell’s CTO lab
  32. On beyond Crowbar: RackN and Digital Rebar
  33. Covering Mesos and Mesosphere
  34. Talking to ClusterHQ founder about Flocker and the Dell storage plugin
  35. Learning about CoreOS and Tectonic
  36. Containers, VMs and Joyent’s Triton — how they relate
  37. Learning about Joyent and Triton, the elastic container infrastructure
  38. Red Hat launches OpenShift v3.1, full of Docker/Kubernetes goodness
  39. My Blog: 2015 in review

2015 39

  1. Google Kubernete’s new community lead: Sarah Novotny
  2. Containerizing an old school Dell application
  3. Learning about VMware’s Photon Controller
  4. Flocker plugin for Dell storage up on GitHub
  5. Incorporating DevOps into the development of Dell’s Active System Manager
  6. My Dell World Talk: DevOps, Containers and Microservices
  7. Touchpad Palm Detection – the “confidence” feature
  8. Alternate Touchpad Configuration for XPS 9343 Developer Edition Running Ubuntu 15.04
  9. Kernel panics when switching wireless networks — XPS 13 developer edition 9343
  10. ContainerCon: Intel’s mini OS – Clear Linux
  11. Recent Fixes for XPS 13 developer edition
  12. ContainerCon: How Google helps developers with Kubernetes
  13. My new gig — I’ve joined the CTO office!
  14. ContainerCon: Rancher Lab’s founder Sheng Liang
  15. Talking to Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth re: Containers, IoT, Project Sputnik and Cloud
  16. Meet the project Sputnik team + Case Study
  17. Introducing Kubernetes 1.0 and the Cloud Native Computing foundation
  18. XPS 13 developer edition on pause
  19. Container management and landscape
  20. Updated Developer Edition Knowledge base: XPS 13 and M3800
  21. John Willis of Docker – DevOps Days Austin
  22. Cameron of Gartner talks DevOps – DevOps Days Austin
  23. Value Ubuntu systems available for consumers in US along with high end XPS 13 developer edition
  24. Developer Edition Knowledge base: XPS 13 and M3800
  25. Fixing your org by continually breaking it – Devops Days Austin
  26. The coming donkey apocalypse — DevOps Days Austin
  27. Opening Keynote – DevOps Days Austin
  28. Dell IoT lab data center
  29. Dell IoT lab: Smart building demo
  30. What type of customers utilize Dell’s IoT lab
  31. Overview: Dell’s Internet of Things (IoT) lab
  32. 4th gen Dell XPS 13 developer edition available!
  33. HackDFW and the project Sputnik story
  34. Update 2: Dell XPS 13 laptop, developer edition – Sputnik Gen 4
  35. Available in Europe: Precision M3800 developer edition
  36. Update: Dell XPS 13 laptop, developer edition – Sputnik Gen 4
  37. Welcome the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition
  38. Installing Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
  39. 2014 in review – My Blog

2014 54

  1. Nutanix and Dell’s Web-scale converged appliance
  2. Learning about Dell’s OpenStack private cloud offering
  3. Red Hat’s OpenShift PaaS, what its about and where Dell fits in
  4. Talking to Red Hat about how they are working with Dell on OpenStack
  5. Digital Transformation – How to avoid becoming digital prey
  6. Dell Cloud Marketplace launches public Beta
  7. Dell Does Digital, unveils Digital Business Services line
  8. Chatting with the leaders of Major League Hacking
  9. Bernard Golden: PaaS, Standards and Open Source
  10. Azure architect talks about Kubernetes and the future of PaaS
  11. The Future of PaaS, its “value proposition” and Docker
  12. Preparing for the Post-IaaS world
  13. Presenting Cloud at Harvard
  14. Findings from 451’s DevOps study — DevOps Days Austin
  15. Dell Cloud Manager and Customer Transformation– DevOps Days Austin
  16. Rackspace’s DevOps Practice — DevOps Days Austin
  17. Sumo Logic and Machine Data Intelligence — DevOps Days Austin
  18. PagerDuty and incident management — DevOps Days Austin
  19. Digital Transformation – It’s all about the customer
  20. New Relic – DevOps Days Austin
  21. Talkin’ APM and AppDynamics – DevOps Days Austin
  22. CFEngine, where its been and where its going — DevOps Days Austin
  23. Synaptics Touchpad drivers now in Test Kernels
  24. Talking about Chef and Unicorns – DevOps Days Austin
  25. Learning about Puppet Enterprise – DevOps Days Austin
  26. Developers share experiences running Ubuntu on Dell M3800 and XPS 15
  27. LittleIdea: No true DevOps (but we do have Samurai) — DevOps Days Austin
  28. App Think Tank: Cloud vs. hyperscale
  29. App Think Tank: Why would I ever build another data center?
  30. App Think Tank: Legacy platforms and modern cloud systems
  31. App Think Tank: Intel IT turns apps into services
  32. App Think Tank: The importance of application rationalization
  33. App Think Tank: Key application policies at Intel and American Cancer Society
  34. App Think Tank: Open Source all the way
  35. App Think Tank: The skills the CIO of the future needs
  36. App Think Tank: The skills and people IT needs most
  37. App Think Tank: What a CIO must do
  38. SXSW: Talking with AllDigital
  39. 24 Hours of Pizza-fueled Innovation
  40. App Think Tank: The Web Of C-Level Relationships
  41. App Think Tank: The persistently, ubiquitously connected to the network era
  42. App Think Tank: IT is facing competition for the first time ever
  43. App Think Tank: What do customers expect
  44. App Think Tank – Some take aways
  45. Sputnik 3 — Great Reviews from the Blog-o-sphere
  46. Consumerization: setting the bar for IT
  47. “New Age of Apps” Think Tank to be streamed Live
  48. DevOps Days NYC — When DevOps goes wrong
  49. DevOps Days NYC — Jonathan Reams of MongoDB
  50. DevOps Days NYC – Mark Burgess of CFEngine
  51. DevOps Days NYC: Mike Ainsworth of SaltStack
  52. Barton’s Blog — 2013 in review
  53. DevOps Days NYC: Mark Imbriaco of GitHub
  54. Cloud Beat: Talking to Founder of CloudVelocity

2013 45

  1. Sputnik 3 online in Europe just in time for Holidays
  2. Insight into the technology behind Goldman Sachs
  3. IDC predicts fierce battle for developers in 2014
  4. Update: Project Sputnik Profile tool
  5. Whitepaper: Learning from Web Companies to drive Innovation
  6. Introducing Sputnik 3 and its unofficial big brother
  7. Project Sputnik Profile Tool: Dell commits engineering resources, Docker joins the cause and we want your input!
  8. Talking SwiftStack with Founder and CEO Joe Arnold
  9. Automating the Cloud: Talking to the Puppet Master
  10. LinkedIn stitches together single pane of glass with Dell Boomi
  11. Talking APIs with ProgrammableWeb Founder: John Musser
  12. Its all about AWS compatibility – talking to Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos
  13. Talking to the Docker Dudes
  14. My O’Reilly Video — Telling the Project Sputnik story
  15. OSCON: Talking OpenShift, RedHat’s Platform as a Service
  16. OSCON: Talking to Andrew Parker of Puppet labs
  17. OSCON: AppDynamics and application performance management
  18. OSCON: Neil Levine of Inktank, sponsor of Ceph
  19. OSCON: Mark Hinkle on his keynote + Citrix and Open Source
  20. OSCON: Apigee and APIs
  21. OSCON: Dell Multi-cloud manager & Dasein Cloud
  22. OSCON: The Project Sputnik story & giveaway
  23. Project Sputnik now comes with 3 month free trial on Joyent cloud
  24. Dell and Sputnik go to OSCON
  25. Developers + IT ops = cloud innovation
  26. Project Sputnik: Rave reviews, 13.04 and OSCON
  27. Shuttleworth raves about Dell XPS13 developer edition
  28. Dell to go Partner route for public cloud
  29. Update: Project Sputnik Profile Tool and Cloud Launcher
  30. Dell Acquires Enstratius — So what do they do?
  31. DevOps Days Austin — John Willis: Culture as the secret weapon in the war of hiring
  32. DevOps Days Austin: Patrick Debois
  33. Sputnik satellite sited in Portland Oregon
  34. Talking OpenStack, DevOps and Project Sputnik at the OpenStack Summit
  35. Ars Technica provides detailed review of Dell XPS 13 developer edition
  36. Game on! Ubuntu comes to Alienware
  37. Time Lapse: Building Dell’s Big Data/OpenStack MDC — allowing customers to test at hyper scale
  38. Available online in Europe, the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
  39. XPS 13 Developer Edition: Specsheet and a short overview
  40. Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe
  41. Intel and ARM systems in same chassis and managed remotely
  42. Emerging cloud solutions and driving innovation at Dell
  43. Talking about Project Sputnik and the importance of Devs to Dell
  44. Developers — Where the rubber meets the road
  45. 2012 in review – my blog

2012 49

  1. XPS 13 Developer Edition takes off
  2. Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition
  3. Project Sputnik: Profile Tool update
  4. One Miiiiiiiiiiiiillion Cloud Servers
  5. Initial thoughts from the Project Sputnik Beta Cosmonauts
  6. Introducing the Webilicious PowerEdge C8000
  7. MDC in our parking lot, serving up OpenStack & Hadoop
  8. Project Sputnik – Beta Cosmonauts chosen
  9. Quick Sputnik Update
  10. OSCON: Tim O’Reilly chats with Mark Shuttleworth
  11. OSCON: Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote
  12. OSCON: Project Sputnik Explained + Coverage recap
  13. Project Sputnik to go from Pilot to Product
  14. Announcing project Sputnik Beta program
  15. Sputnik update: Touchpad driver now available!!!
  16. Sputnik update: Profile tool and touchpad
  17. Sputnik…Wow!!
  18. Copper: Dell goes out ARMed
  19. Redmonk on Developers and Project Sputnik
  20. Talking about Project Sputnik
  21. Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop
  22. Ferreting out Innovation
  23. DevOpsDays: Crowbar, where its been and where its going
  24. Addressing eBay’s Project Mercury needs with Dell’s Modular Data Center
  25. DevOpsDays Austin — The provisioning panel starring JuJu, Crowbar, Puppet, Chef and Pallet
  26. All the best ideas begin on a cocktail napkin — DCS turns 5
  27. DevOpsDays Austin kicks off, A short history
  28. EnterpriseDB’s new Postgres cloud database
  29. IDC starts tracking the hyperscale server market
  30. On beyond North America — Dell’s OpenStack solution now available in Europe and Asia
  31. SXSW: Our final Dev/Tech meet up
  32. SXSW: Our Saturday night Dev/tech meet up
  33. Gazzang – One of the 10 Austin startups to check out at SXSW
  34. SXSW: Our first developer Chill and Chat
  35. Talking to the CEO of SugarSync — provider of personalized, multi-device cloud storage
  36. Dell Officially Launches Web|Tech vertical — the 100 second overview
  37. Kanban2go — How to build a cloud-based offering
  38. Dell’s Big Data escalator pitch
  39. Hadoop World, a belated summary
  40. Web Glossary part three: Infrastructure tier
  41. Web Glossary part two: Data tier
  42. Web Glossary part one: Application tier
  43. The World of Web and Developers, getting to know it better
  44. Mark Shuttleworth part two: Developers, DevOps & the Cloud
  45. Mark Shuttleworth part one: UbuntuTV
  46. Opscode visits
  47. Cloud Computing: A high-level how-to
  48. The Value of Cloud Computing
  49. 2011 in review

2011 103

  1. What is the Cloud?
  2. Hadoop World: What Dell is up to with Big Data, Open Source and Developers
  3. Hadoop World: Talking to Splunk’s Co-founder
  4. How to create a Basic or Advanced Crowbar build for Hadoop
  5. Open source Crowbar code now available for Hadoop
  6. Hadoop World: NoSQL database MongoDB
  7. Hadoop World: Talking HBase with Facebook’s Jonathan Gray
  8. Hadoop World: Battery Ventures EIR Todd P.
  9. Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju
  10. Hadoop World: Karmasphere and big data intelligence
  11. Hadoop World: Learning about NoSQL database Couchbase
  12. Hadoop World: O’Reilly Strata conference chair, Ed Dumbill
  13. Hadoop World: Cloudera CEO reflects on this year’s event
  14. Hadoop World: Accel’s $100M Big Data fund
  15. Developers: How to get involved with Crowbar for Hadoop
  16. Dell to opensource software to ease Hadoop install & management
  17. Where Dell plays in the Cloud and how we got there
  18. Talking to Nodeable CEO Dave Rosenberg (think Twitter for machines)
  19. Crowbar: Where its been and where its going
  20. Cote and I discuss Dell World and our new Web|Tech Vertical
  21. Big Data is the new Cloud
  22. Check us out at next week’s OpenStack Design Summit
  23. Is Data the currency of the Internet or is it the new oil?
  24. Props from GigaOm for Dell as Web outfitter
  25. A Walk-through of Dell’s Modular Data Center
  26. Bing Maps team on why they went with Dell
  27. Now available: Dell | Cloudera solution for Apache Hadoop
  28. Cote’s first 10 days at Dell
  29. Cloud Foundry picks up Crowbar to speed installation
  30. Does Hadoop compete with or complement the data warehouse?
  31. Introducing the Dell | Cloudera solution for Apache Hadoop — Harnessing the power of big data
  32. Dell’s Modular Data Center powers Bing Maps
  33. OSCON: The Data Locker project and Singly
  34. OSCON: ex-NASA cloud lead on his OpenStack startup, Piston
  35. OSCON: How foursquare uses MongoDB to manage its data
  36. Dell announces availability of OpenStack solution; Open sources “Crowbar” software framework
  37. Intel version of Dell’s third gen Microserver now available
  38. Plug and Play Tech Center – Start up Accelerator and a lot more
  39. Dell opens Customer Solutions Center in Austin
  40. Hadoop Summit: Looking at the evolving ecosystem with Ken Krugler
  41. Hadoop Summit: Chatting with Cloudera’s VP of Product
  42. Hadoop Summit: Talking to the CEO of MapR
  43. Hadoop Summit: Talking to the CEO of Hortonworks
  44. Structure: Thoughts by Rich Miller of DataCenter Knowledge
  45. Structure: Learning about DevOps & Crowbar from Jesse Robbins
  46. Structure: Cumulogic, a Java Platform as a Service
  47. Structure: Why are 1.0 Data Centers suddenly sexy?
  48. Structure: OpenStack launches Incubation program
  49. Cyber Infrastructure org goes with OpenStack and Dell
  50. My Cloud Expo preso: Taking the Revolutionary Approach
  51. Survey Results, is IT optimistic or pessimistic about Cloud?
  52. Talking to RightScale about “myCloud” and their work with Zynga
  53. An Update from Eucalyptus’s CTO and Founder
  54. Ubuntu cloud update — OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Ensemble & Orchestra
  55. Cloud.com on OpenStack and powering RightScale’s myCloud
  56. Cloud Expo: Cloud.com, what’s it all about?
  57. Cloud Expo: Boomi case study — Enterprise Community Housing
  58. Cloud Expo: Talking to Rick Nucci, Boomi CTO
  59. Citrix to launch OpenStack Distro (with a little help from Rackspace and Dell)
  60. GigaOm names the top 50 Cloud Innovators
  61. The New Yorker gets appified – Is it the end of the world as we know it?
  62. Intel Conversations in the Cloud: Dell’s “cloudy” thoughts
  63. Day 2 of Dell’s analyst event and an SMB perspective from IDC’s Ray Boggs
  64. Dell’s Analyst Event – Summary of day 1 and feedback from Redmonk’s Michael Cote
  65. BitNami Cloud Hosting: a demo and chat with the CEO
  66. Gettin’ the scoop on the OpenStack Design Summit
  67. Eucalyptus back at OpenStack Design Summit
  68. Forrester’s James Staten on OpenStack
  69. TIBCO, Dell, Arista & Mellanox deliver Extreme Low-Latency messaging solution for Financial Markets
  70. Savtira streams media and apps from the cloud with beefy PowerEdge C combo
  71. Whitepaper: 5 points to consider when choosing a Server Vendor for Hyperscale Data Centers
  72. A walk thru Facebook’s HQ on Open Compute day
  73. Rackspace’s head of OpenStack talks about Facebook’s Open Compute
  74. Frank Frankovsky of Facebook talks about Open Compute — how they got there and where they go from here
  75. Forrest Norrod of Dell on Open Compute
  76. Facebook, OpenCompute and Dell
  77. Dell’s Billion Dollar Baby
  78. Dell, Equinix and Rackspace launch Free OpenStack Demo environment
  79. Dells Data Center Solutions group turns Four!
  80. Intel’s Jason Waxman on Sandy Bridge, Atom and our new Intel-based Microserver
  81. Live from World Hosting Days – AMD’s John Freuhe talks about the AMD based PowerEdge C systems
  82. A Walk-thru of our new Hyper-scale inspired Microserver
  83. DCS brings its experience to a wider Web Hosting audience — announcing PowerEdge C microservers
  84. DCS Microserver allows French hoster to enter new market (and grab big market share)
  85. Intel, Dell and Microservers
  86. Rackspace evolves OpenStack Governance
  87. OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
  88. OpenStack heads into Interstellar Overdrive
  89. Now Available, HPC monster machine
  90. Rob on Hyperscale Cloud Architecture
  91. And on the other end of the spectrum — Microservers
  92. Dell DCS unveils its 4th HPC offering in 12 months, and its a beefy one
  93. Meet Roy Guillen — GM of Dell’s DCS group
  94. Architecture Overview: The Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications
  95. White Paper: A Revolutionary Approach to Cloud Building
  96. DCS’s Chief Geek takes us on a tour of his mini Home Lab
  97. Dell provides Ubuntu-powered IaaS-in-a-box
  98. DCS systems, solutions and MDC steal show at Dell sales kick-off
  99. “Stacker” Mark Collier gives an OpenStack Update
  100. My interview on the Windows Azure team blog — The Cloud will go away
  101. Low voltage DIMMs can mean huge savings in Hyperscale environments
  102. Mark Shuttleworth on UEC and OpenStack
  103. Construction complete on Microsoft’s “Cloud Farm”

2010 94

  1. Gartner on Extreme Data Centers
  2. The Data Center ecosystem of players
  3. Dell opens its Social Media Command Center
  4. Welcome to the Wild and Wacky World of Data Centers
  5. Michael Dell on Evolutionary & Revolutionary IT paths
  6. Dell brings Joyent to the world
  7. Dell/Greenplum Data Warehousing solution now available
  8. Dell + Aster data analytics solution: Live and in use
  9. Dell Cloud Solutions up and running!
  10. Rackspace’s CTO on the promise of OpenStack
  11. Talking to Social Media Guru Charlene Li
  12. Tier5 first to fire up Dell’s 3rd-gen Modular Data Center
  13. PWC’s Cloud man bullish on OpenStack
  14. Citrix “All in” when it comes to OpenStack
  15. Chatting with Eucalyptus Co-founder about OpenStack
  16. Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark
  17. Accenture’s thoughts on the OpenStack Cloud Platform
  18. Talking to NASA CTO about OpenStack Cloud Platform
  19. PowerEdge C powers OpenStack Install Fest
  20. The Importance of Supply Chain when Serving the Internet’s Cloudy Superstars
  21. Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk on the Dell Analyst summit
  22. Jonathan Eunice of Illuminata on Dell’s Analyst Summit
  23. A Quick look at Dell’s Analyst Summit
  24. Cloud gamers OnLive on working with Dell DCS
  25. El Reg love: “Dell’s DCS is a big shiny server star”
  26. Dell’s hyper scale cloud efforts — Everything you wanted to know in 3 minutes
  27. In-database analytics explained by Forrester’s James Kobielus
  28. Meet OpenStack’s Community Manager
  29. El Reg gives DCS props for HPC innovation
  30. Talking to Aster Data’s brand new CEO
  31. NVIDIA: from gaming graphics to High Performance Computing
  32. What’s happening — A Dell / OpenStack Update
  33. Why cloud provider iland is checking out our new system
  34. Welcome the uber-dense AMD-based Cloud/ HPC machine
  35. Enter the Viking: Light Weight server for Hosting and Web 2.0
  36. Back to the Future with Light Weight Servers
  37. Dell’s Modular Data Center — Hello World
  38. Schlepping a 410x across Austin – A documentary
  39. Aster’s Big Data Architecture
  40. Dell has a BI practice?!
  41. Chattin ’bout Chatter, The new new thing from salesforce.com
  42. Sun’s Chief Open Source Officer’s new Gig
  43. Chief Scientist at BT: “In nature there are no SLAs”
  44. OpenStack insights and code
  45. PowerEdge C410x — Whiteboard topology
  46. Deep dive tour(s) of the PowerEdge C410x
  47. Say hello to my little friend — packing up to 16 GPGPUs
  48. 5 lessons from the Cloud about Efficient Environments
  49. Customer reviews our 4-servers-in-one, the C6100
  50. Ubuntu, the Cloud and the Future — Neil Levine
  51. My quick spiel on the cloud
  52. The OpenStack design summit in review
  53. OpenStack Compute – talking to the chief architect
  54. Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage
  55. Introducing OpenStack — an open source cloud platform
  56. NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
  57. Cloud Billing and the Subscription Economy
  58. Cool Article on the Dell/Azure announcement
  59. The Dell / Azure Cloud & Appliance
  60. The Cloud is a marathon — Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus CEO
  61. Pics from Structure opening festivities
  62. Chocolate covered servers?
  63. Cloud Camp Austin 2010
  64. Onlive’s gaming cloud powered by custom Dell servers
  65. An overview of the worldwide gaming market
  66. Talking to Joyent’s CTO and co-founder: Jason Hoffman
  67. US Military Forges ahead into Cloud & Open Source
  68. Federal Cloud Computing, two steps forward?
  69. Big Data in the Windy City
  70. NetworkWorld Review of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
  71. Datawarehouser Greenplum — Talking to President and Founder, Scott Yara
  72. Dell’s “Custom Tailor” to Internet Stars turns three — Expands to serve the next 1000
  73. Cloud Pioneer, Salesforce.com
  74. Aster Data’s CEO & Co-founder — Mayank Bawa
  75. Dell’s New High Performance Analytics & Cloud Server
  76. Talkin’ to Eucalyptus Founder & CTO — Rich Wolski
  77. Cloud Webinar and Deck now posted
  78. Cloud White Paper now available
  79. PowerEdge C1100 – Skinny & Dense
  80. PowerEdge C6100 – HPC & Cloud machine
  81. Dell Joins Cloud Security Alliance
  82. Greenplum teaser starring Scott McNealy & Me :-)
  83. Dell’s New Cloud Server line – An Overview
  84. Dell Unveils Cloud Solutions (Yippee!)
  85. Private Clouds: Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary
  86. The Cloud Cometh
  87. Ubuntu founder stops by Round Rock
  88. Just flew in from Vegas…and boy are my jokes tired
  89. Dell’s Cloud Plans Grab Virtual Ink
  90. Sun’s Champagne Super Nova
  91. Cast Iron: Integrating Cloud & on-premise Apps
  92. InfoWeek: Dell DCS unit racking up cloud sales
  93. Talking to the Head of VMware’s Cloud Business
  94. Microsoft, Virtualization and the Cloud

2009 100

  1. Dell & the Cloud: Where we’ve been, Where we’re going
  2. Talking to Roger of Citrix about now and Xen
  3. What is ATT up to in the cloud?
  4. 3tera’s CEO and Chairman: Barry Lynn
  5. Talking with Mr. Cloud Camp
  6. Gartner’s Data Center Conference: The Keynote
  7. Back from NYC: Attending shows & visiting customers
  8. Stoneware: Developing & Selling Private Cloud Software
  9. A Quick Overview of Azure: What it is/Where its going
  10. Talking about Gluster: Clustered Cloud Storage
  11. Adam of Oracle talks about Oracle VM and the Cloud
  12. The Planet, from Hoster to Hoster & Cloud Provider
  13. Learning about Heroku – The Ruby PaaS Solution
  14. Back from the Bay Area with a fist full of cloudy videos
  15. Learning about Cloud Storage from Nirvanix’s Geoff Tudor
  16. Gartner’s Bittman: Private Cloud’s value as Stepping Stone
  17. Gartner: Cloud Computing #1 technology for 2010
  18. A Data Center that fits in the Overhead Bin
  19. Talking about Dell’s Cloud efforts
  20. Kibitzing about the Cloud: Ellison goes off
  21. Mark Shuttleworth on the Cloud, Ubuntu on Dell and more
  22. Cloud goes big in Japan (or at least at KDDI)
  23. Talking to Ken O. about Egenera, the cloud and Dell
  24. Cloud Tamer: Right Scale’s CEO Michael Crandell
  25. CEO of GoGrid: IT economy to shrink (big time) over next 10 years
  26. Dell makes list of top 10 vendors shaping the Cloud
  27. Talking to the Cloud’s Puppet Master: Luke Kanies
  28. Forrester’s James Staten Explains the Cloud
  29. Storage in the Cloud — talking to Zmanda’s CEO
  30. Talking to the Co-Founder of Rackspace Cloud
  31. The Cloudy Wisdom of James Urquhart
  32. Brian Aker discusses Drizzle, DB for the Cloud
  33. Back from Cloud World with a Bunch of Interviews
  34. Our trip to Wimberley, Texas
  35. My first week at Dell
  36. Dude, I’m going to Dell!
  37. Tim Bray’s Law of Explanation
  38. 3 Reasons Public Clouds will Dominate: Developers, Developers, Developers
  39. Internal Clouds? We don’t need no Stinking Internal Clouds
  40. Rackspace goes down (2X), their President steps up
  41. Volume Servers: It’s the Software Stupid
  42. How to Community
  43. Lifeguard Stands and Palm Trees in…Chicago!?
  44. JetBlue’s Social Media Strategy
  45. Stephen O’Grady on Red Monk — The Un-Analysts
  46. Thanks to Tim Bray I’m an Honourary Cheeky Brit
  47. James Duncan: From Reasonably Smart to Joyent
  48. RightScale Part 2: Why the cloud? Apple Fanboys and Server Suffrage
  49. RightScale part 1: Mickos joins and control moves up the stack
  50. My Presentation and Interview from Cloud Camp
  51. Got 3 minutes? See what Blueprint’s all about
  52. Production, Operations Mgt and BPM at Texas State
  53. “Accessing outside ideas is no longer optional”
  54. Process Improvement is Everbody’s Business – Blueprint Spring ’09 goes Live!
  55. Call Center outsourcer uses Process Mapping to help it emerge from Chapter 11
  56. Talkin’ to Mosso Co-founder, Todd Morey
  57. Talking to Canonical’s KVM Kid — Dustin Kirkland
  58. Pics and Prose from Cloud Camp Austin ’09
  59. Talking to Ubuntu’s Cloud Man
  60. Symantec, process improvement and Blueprint
  61. Blueprint to Sponsor Cloud Camp Austin
  62. A Few Pics from San Francisco
  63. IBM leverages Web 2.0 for Knowledge Sharing
  64. Teaching Social Media at Georgetown
  65. Lew Moorman and Robert Scoble of Rackspace
  66. Talking with Ford’s Head of Social Media
  67. Top 10 Tech Skills: Process Modeling tops the list
  68. Mark Shuttleworth dicusses the Cloud and Ubuntu
  69. Animoto – The Poster Child for AWS & EC2
  70. Talking with Charlene Li about Social Networks
  71. The other three are…
  72. Forrester Report on Blueprint now Available
  73. Happy St. Patrick’s day — Can you name the other three?
  74. Pics from the show floor at SXSW
  75. Pics from BarCamp Austin 4
  76. Bar Camp Austin – A Quick Walk-thru
  77. Conferences going Virtual
  78. A Batch of Lombardi News
  79. Escape from Visio
  80. It takes a Community (and they could use a Marketing Guide) — Mozilla Debut’s theirs
  81. Lombardi Science Fair ’09
  82. Time: Facebook Is for Old People
  83. Latest Rev of Blueprint (Rock ‘n’) Rolls out
  84. Professor Tedlow of Harvard Business School visits the Valley
  85. Forrester Posts Great Blueprint Review
  86. Force.com at Cloud Connect
  87. Teaching Process
  88. “Stalking and capturing a Business Process” — Blueprint grabs virtual ink in Forbes.com
  89. The rise of the Google Enterprise team and Cloud
  90. Talking “Cloud” with Rajen Sheth — Inventor of Google Apps
  91. Alistair Croll – The Cloud, Meta-data and Predictions for ’09
  92. Talking to Sam Charrington of Appistry
  93. Sun’s New VP of Cloud Computing Strategy: Ian Murdock
  94. Live from Cloud Connect: David Berlind
  95. Today’s the day!
  96. Experience using Excel, Powerpoint…Lombardi Blueprint… a plus!
  97. Meme Alert: 7 Things about Me
  98. West Bend Insurance uses BPM and Process Mapping to Create New Offerings and Streamline Operations
  99. Heading to California, Cloud Connect and Customers
  100. The Cloud — Looking back at ’08 and forward to ’09: Taking with Rackspace’s Head of Strategy

2008 36

  1. The Lights of Johnson City
  2. “Quiet Riot”: Last Blueprint release of ’08 now live
  3. The Sassy part of the Cloud
  4. Who’s Using GWT? Red Hat Joins the Fray
  5. A Quick Peak at Blueprint thanks to Google
  6. Blueprint: See what’s so cool about it
  7. Turning 100 years of “tribal knowledge” into documented processes
  8. Talking with the President of Dell Americas about Cloud Computing and the Economy
  9. Happy Thanksgiving from Austin, TX
  10. Lombardi Analyst Call
  11. Morphis: Accidental Process Consultants
  12. Rackspace’s CTO John Engates and his “Cloudy” thoughts
  13. Chattin’ with Mosso co-founder, Jonathan Bryce
  14. Talkin’ with Rackspace’s CEO Lanham Napier about the Cloud and Hosting
  15. Splitting the Cloud in Three
  16. The Tillamook Podcast — 99 yr old Dairy Cooperative embraces Process Mapping
  17. Microsoft Joins the Cloud Party
  18. “Poison:” Blueprint October ’08 is live
  19. Introducing, Process Mapping 101 – An online course
  20. Pics and Notes from Rackspace’s Cloud Event
  21. Goats in the Trees
  22. What’s in an internal name? A cheesy band?
  23. Blueprint: Built of Java thanks to Google Web Toolkit
  24. Watch Blueprint in Action
  25. Depression good for Cloud
  26. Obama in ’73
  27. Amazon talks about Amazon’s cloud
  28. Who knew San Antonio was so Cool?!
  29. Google Addresses Three Cloud Computing Myths
  30. The Coolest Pumpkin in the Neighborhood ’07
  31. Ellison and Stallman Rain on Cloud Computing
  32. The Gartner BPM Summit: Cool High-Tops, TLAs and The Price is Right
  33. Google out, Zoho in — to the tune of 400,000 desktops at GE
  34. All Creatures Great and Small (in Austin)
  35. Wrapping up my second Week at Lombardi
  36. Hello world!