So Matt and I have been trying to record this for an age, technology and ambient noise from the construction crew extending our Westford office got in the way a few weeks back so plan B – DIY remote podcast over Google+ recorded here in the studio in the UK – what we ended up with was a really good tech chat about OpenShift, hosted on-premise PaaS and a deep dive into SELinux … [Read more...] about Podcast: Matt Hicks – OpenShift / SELinux
Value Add – Tough Love in Cloud
There is no doubting the fact that as a lot of enterprise organisations and institutions who have for many years been wholly reliant on silo led computing platform architecture feel a little overwhelmed (or underwhelmed in some parts) by Cloud. Cloud the buzzword de jour, the spin. The undefined re-invention of IT. I see it a lot, and I hear it more. There seems to be this … [Read more...] about Value Add – Tough Love in Cloud
Podcast: Juan Noceda – Mr OpenShift
Juan Noceda who is the Senior Product Manager for OpenShift at Red Hat is in London this week with Ashesh Badani General Manger of Red Hat’s Cloud BU. They are on what can be politely described as a whistlestop tour of customers analysts and thoughtleaders talking Open Hybrid Cloud and OpenShift Enterprise. So whilst they were in territory it gave me the chance to get Juan … [Read more...] about Podcast: Juan Noceda – Mr OpenShift
Playing the part of an incubator in Cloud
“Anybody can build a Linux server – even my grandmother could deploy a Kickstart image”. How many times have you heard that from a sysadmin / Linux admin ? Personally over the last decade I’ve heard it echo around. In 2012 we take it for granted that the work the community and the likes of Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical have bankrolled to ensure that the user experience for … [Read more...] about Playing the part of an incubator in Cloud
Technical accumen beats a Crystal Ball in Cloud
Last week while I was on vacation, before I got waylaid in preparing for todays Cloud Computing World Forum in London and next weeks Open.CH Cloud event in Switzerland I promised my snapshot on Gartner’s release a fortnight ago now on EMEA Cloud activity being a pale comparison of the US’s activity.You can read it here, in fact reading it before digesting this article might be … [Read more...] about Technical accumen beats a Crystal Ball in Cloud