Over 20 years ago, I started my professional career joining GE working as a Systems Engineer for a large bank and doing several public sector assignments. After a few years, I worked for Sprint. Several years later, I founded my first startup which was sold to Quest Software (which in turn was bought by Dell). […]
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Networks, Openness, Istio (The Future of Networks Part 4)
This is Part Four in the series “The Future of Networks”, to start at the beginning go here. There are many possibilities as to where the previously mentioned trends drive networking. As I continue to interact with the community and evolve my thoughts about the Future of Networks, I am going to cover more of […]
The Future of the Network
This is part 1 of 5 in a series that will be posted daily this week. The Future of the Network or “Direct-Connect Switchless Networks” For the past few months, I have been considering how Networking technology will (and in some cases should) evolve over the next 3–7 years. Networking technology has stagnated from the breakneck […]
Service Energy – Complimenting Data Gravity
It has been a while since I posted anything referring to Data Gravity. While Data Gravity is interesting and can explain many motivations of Cloud Companies and their Data Services, there are other influential forces at work. Service Energy What am I referring to as a Service in this case? Any code or logic that […]
Microsoft Azure Cloud – Top 20 Lessons Learned about MSFT’s PaaS
Two weeks ago, Rob Hirschfeld (@Zehicle) and I (@McCrory) had the benefit of intensive Azure training at Microsoft HQ to support Dell’s Azure Stamp. We’ve assembled a top 20 list of things to know about programming for Azure (and really any PaaS leaning cloud): If you want performance, optimize to reduce fees. Azure (and any […]
Microsoft Azure vs. Amazon EC2 – Instance Comparison
I decided to do this based on today’s PDC 2010 announcement of the Microsoft Extra Small Instance. I wanted to compare and contrast Amazon’s EC2 Instances with Microsoft Azure’s Instances. I came across what I believe to be an error on Microsoft’s website (both Medium and Large Instances currently show as $0.48/CPU hour. Below […]
Great Rails Rumble Projects
I decided to look at the Rails Rumble projects today and have found several that look very promising. Some could be applied to the cloud and some just solve some interesting problems. Below are some of my top picks: Top Pick: GitWrite – A Blogging Platform backed using Git, Rails, and Twitter! Monitoring: StillAlive– Focuses […]
Landing at Dell
A lot has occurred since my last blog post. I am continuing the development of my technology and working in the Cloud, however I have chosen to do this with a great team at Dell. I was approached a while back about this opportunity and as I dug deeper and saw the potential I began […]
VMware Fusion Cloud Foundry ?
As I have been working on getting a prototype together of a new technology I’ve been working on, I’ve been using VMware Fusion 3.1 . Yesterday, I finally worked out the last issue with what I cut as Prototype-1 . I backed up all of my code and of course my VM . Today, I […]
Where Am I?
As all things change and new opportunities arise. I have left Hyper9 and am now pursing consulting opportunities until I’m able to get my new startup off the ground (yes, I have something in mind). I could spend a lot of time explaining why I left, but I think this is better said by someone […]
Data Gravitas 