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My Endorsements for the 2015 OpenStack Individual Director Elections
If you are voting this year in the individual director elections, and I sincerely hope you are, I would appreciate it if you would give special consideration to the following candidates and a super...
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“Vanilla OpenStack” Doesn’t Exist and Never Will
One of the biggest failures of OpenStack to date is expectation setting. New potential OpenStack users and customers come into OpenStack and expect to find:A uniform, monolithic cloud operating system...
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The Future of OpenStack’s EC2 APIs
Recently, some more talk was had around the future of the EC2 APIs, beginning with some comments on the openstack-operators mailing list, followed by threads on the dev and foundation mailing list....
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Vancouver OpenStack Summit – EMC Federation Presentations
Voting for presentations at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit is now open. Please help us by voting on the sessions submitted by EMC Federation speakers along with any other sessions that cover topics...
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DevOps Event @ EMC World 2015
I am super excited to announce that EMC is sponsoring a DevOps event at EMC World 2015. As many of you guessed, with the acquisition of Cloudscaling, and the recent creation of the EMC{code}...
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What AWS Revenues Mean for Public Cloud and OpenStack More Generally
At the risk of sounding like “I told you so”, I wanted to comment on the recent Amazon 10-Q report. If you were paying attention you likely saw it as it was the first time that AWS revenues were...
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OpenStack Self-Improvement Mini-Survey
Want to help make OpenStack great? I’ve put together a very quick survey to get some deeper feedback than is provided by the User Survey. The intention is to provide some additional information...
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State of the Stack v4 – OpenStack In All It’s Glory
Yesterday I gave the seminal State of the Stack presentation at the OpenStack Summit. This is the 4th major iteration of the deck. This particular version took a very different direction for several...
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EMC and Canonical expand OpenStack Partnership
As you saw at last week’s OpenStack Summit, EMC® is expanding its partnership with Canonical amongst others. I want to take a moment to talk specifically about our relationship with Canonical. We see...
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Five Things OpenStack Needs to Do … Now.
At the most recent OpenStack SV 2015 event, I was invited to speak and provide a viewpoint on OpenStack’s future. The year before in 2014 I gave a talk entitled “Lie of the Benevolent Dictator” which...
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