You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used independently. In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for Docker, covered the union between the two topics and why this is important. He provided an overview of Immutable Infrastructure then showed how an Immutable Continuous Delivery pipeline can be applied as a best practice for "DevOps." He ended the session with some interesting case study examples. Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Speaker Bio John Willis is Technical Evangelist for Docker, which he joined after the company he co-founded (SocketPlane, which focused on SDN for containers) was acquired by Docker in March 2015. Previous to founding SocketPlane in Fall 2014, he was VP of Customer Enablement at Stateless Networks, and prior to that he was Chief DevOps Evangelist at Dell, which he joined following the... (more)

Announcing @GGU to Exhibit at @CloudExpo | #DevOps #BigData #Serverless

SYS-CON Events announced today that Golden Gate University will exhibit at SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Since 1901, non-profit Golden Gate University (GGU) has been helping adults achieve their professional goals by providing high quality, practice-based undergraduate and graduate educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions. Many of its courses are taught by faculty actively working in their field of expertise, providing students with skills that can be applied immediately. The new MS in Business Analytics, like most of its programs, is available fully online or in-person in downtown SF. To learn more, visit GGU at www.ggu.edu. 21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Con... (more)

EC Objects to Oracle-Sun; Oracle Vows To Fight

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The European Commission Monday served Oracle and Sun with a statement of objections (SO) that takes exception to their $7.4 billion combination. Sun immediately told the SEC that "The Statement of Objections sets out the Commission's preliminary assessment regarding, and is limited to, the combination of Sun's open source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and its potential negative effects on competition in the market for database products." Oracle then issued a statement saying that it's going to fight the EC and then the Justice Department waded in with its own statement siding with Oracle and saying the proposed merger no threat to competition. The situation, predictable all around, promises to get testy. Oracle's sharply worded statement reads: "Oracle's acqu... (more)

How PowerBuilder Got Its Groove Back

PBDJ Feature Story One of the main issues that PowerBuilder and PowerBuilder developers have been facing for the last few years is the lack of mind share for the product. Interest in PowerBuilder - as measured by news articles in Google's archive - ramped up from its inception in 1991 until it hit its peak in 1996 with the release of PowerBuilder 5.0. It dropped a bit off the peak but remained steady until it peaked again in 2003 with the release of PowerBuilder 9.0 and PocketBuilder 1.0. It's been dropping steadily since then though, with the current activity about that of 1993. A look at Google trends also shows the rapid decline in search activity since 2004 (as far back as Trends has data). That is most likely the reason in the last year or so that PowerBuilder keeps dropping off the end of the Tiobe Index. All that seems to have changed with Sybase's announceme... (more)

Ex-IBM Server Chief Expected To Plead Guilty to Corruption Charges

Robert Moffat, the former head of both IBM's server and chips units, who was arrested in October in the first dragnet of culprits connected with the now infamous Galleon Group hedge fund and its alleged insider trading ring, is expected to wave indictment and plead guilty, according to papers filed with the courts Tuesday. Based on wire taps, Moffat, widely characterized as a potential replacement for IBM CEO Sam Palmisano, was charged in October with disclosing the earnings of both IBM and Sun Microsystems and the details of an AMD restructuring to Danielle Chiesi, then a trader at New Castle Funds. Moffat had access to the Sun financials because IBM was doing due diligence on the company with a thought to buying it. He knew all about AMD's deal with Abu Dhabi because IBM Microelectronics, which he ran, was AMD's semiconductor process partner and would be licensing... (more)

Novell Owns Unix

Novell Session at Cloud Expo A federal jury Tuesday found that Novell owns the Unix copyrights. They never transferred to the Santa Cruz Operation and so they never transferred to its descendent SCO. A decision in SCO's favor would have opened the door for it to pursue its original multibillion-dollar case against IBM and to levy a tax on every one of the thousands of Linux systems out there. Without the copyrights SCO has no standing to go after IBM. SCO was also hoping to collect perhaps at much $215 million in lost business from Novell and an uncalculated amount of punitive damages, enough to put itself back on its feet. Register Today and Save $550 ! Explore Sponsorship Opportunities ! The seven-year experience has drained SCO of resources and it's currently operating under the protection of the bankruptcy court, its management replaced with a trustee. The los... (more)

Cloud-Chasing To Cost CA 1,000 Jobs

CA Session at Cloud Expo CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69. It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one, blames on expenses. So, apparently, does CA. Therefore, in the name of "profitable growth" and efficiency, it's going to terminate a thousand people, about 8% of its global workforce, to right-size for its new cloud computing strategy. The move will include consolidating more of its facilities to reduce real estate costs as well as further rationalizing its product portfolio. CA said most of the cuts would be in North America and most people would know they're laid off by the end of April; the rest won't know until the end of September. In a memo to employees T... (more)

[Update 3] Novell Sells Out to Attachmate; Microsoft Gets Patents

Novell, which has been on the block for months, said Monday morning that it’s selling out to Attachmate Corporation for $6.10 a share, or roughly $2.2 billion in cash. At the same time Novell said it’s also selling certain unidentified intellectual property to a thing called CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of equally unidentified technology companies organized by Microsoft, for $450 million in cash, a payment that’s cozily reflected in the $2.2 billion Attachmate is paying. Less the $1.03 billion Novell has in the bank and the $450 million for what Novell told the SEC was 882 patents, Attachmate’s price works out to a mere $720 million. The Microsoft-side of the news immediately sent people to the Patent and Trademark Office where they could find only 461 patents in Novell’s name going back to 1992. They also found 287 patent applications. Presumably the IP sale ... (more)

My Two-Year-Old Daughter Sofia Facing Life-Long Disability in Syria

The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department on Sofia's welfare in Syria. Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story Sofia was abducted by her mother from the United States to Syria last July, following her diagnosis of GDD with possible autism. She had 13 remaining medical appointments left at the time of her abduction, none of which she was able to keep. Last week's welfare report prepared by our Embassy in Damascus, Syria, after their second welfare visit to the home in Syria where Sofia remains with her mother and grandmother, showed a bleaker outcome for my daughter than the previous report dated November 2010. At two years and two months of age, Sofia still doesn't speak a single word, make or follow simple hand gestures... (more)

What Kind of Software Company Should You Work For?

I met Peter Griess last night and heard him talk about his career. Even though he still has plenty of years ahead of him, he has already worked for NetApp, Yahoo, and now Facebook. He was part of a nine-person startup that worked on some interesting social email apps that eventually got acquired by Yahoo. Along his career he has seen very different kinds of cultures in these various software engineering departments, and as I was listening to his talk, I thought about the many software companies that I have covered over the years. I would break them down into three different kinds of cultures (the names are my own construct): Mature Turtles. Until the Internets came along; this was your typical enterprise software company, such as IBM, Microsoft, Sun/Oracle and others. It was a slow adopter, came out with new releases once a year or so, after careful testing and lots... (more)

Google Copies Amazon [Update]

Google has copied Amazon and wheeled out an EC2 Infrastructure-as-a- Service imitator at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco Thursday proving the scuttlebutt to be on the money. It’s called Compute Engine and Google will rent out the spare stripped-down servers (Ubuntu 12.04 or the CentOS 6.2 Linux virtual machines with KVM) in its data centers to run compute-intensive third-party apps, putting its skills and gargantuan scale up for sale. It claims it’s “50% more power per dollar” than Amazon, which recently trimmed its prices and now is likely to again. Jealous of other people’s success and innovation, Google claims Compute Engine is not about stealing market share. Google already has the platform-as-a-service App Engine and the S3-like Google Cloud Storage but the money is in IaaS. It’s said Amazon Web Services may do $2 billion this year. Micros... (more)