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June 24, 2019 3:54 pm
1,587 viewsHarnessing hybrid cloud for HPC
Harnessing Hybrid Cloud for High Performance Compute
From Boffins to Big Business
As a grizzled veteran of the IT industry, I have been involved in many high performance computing (HPC) projects over the years, both from a hardware and software perspective. I have always found them to be intensely interesting mainly because the projects were […]
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September 14, 2018 8:34 am
3,022 viewsMode 1 vs Mode 2 – the Infrastructure Wars
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain
Do phrases such as CI/CD, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, etc leave you baffled? If someone mentions an agile scrum, do you think of […]
Categories: DevOps, Digital Transformation, Kubernetes, SUSE CaaS Platform
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March 23, 2018 12:02 pm
2,396 viewsSDI – The implications for the Channel
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” Benjamin Disraeli
“Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.” Anon
Change is unavoidable and yet, despite our best efforts, predicting the future seems impossible. If we could, then, as Del Boy puts it, “this time next year, Rodders, we’ll be […]
Categories: Expert Views, Partners, Software-defined Infrastructure
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November 26, 2017 2:52 pm
1,963 viewsCatch the Open Source wave
“Software Defined” is a current industry hot topic or annoying buzz phrase, depending on your point of view. If it means anything (and often these buzz words mean absolutely nothing at all), then it articulates the trend to de-couple hardware and software and invest the latter with all the Intellectual Property. At this point, […]
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November 13, 2017 10:25 am
1,467 viewsThe Chameleon's African adventure
In October this year, myself and David Winter from SUSE UK went to Tanzania to climb the world’s highest free standing mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. We were raising money for two charities, 1) The British Red Cross London Fire Appeal and 2) Alzheimer’s Society.
In order to give ourselves the best possible chance of […]
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