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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Seven Reasons to Deploy Your Enterprise Cloud on Ubuntu OS (Webcast I'm giving at Intel.com)

I'm giving a live webcast on Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 7:30am US Pacific time on Intel.com, through Intel's CloudBuilder program, where Canonical and Intel partnered to produce a whitepaper about the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.

The title and abstract:

Seven Reasons to Deploy Your Enterprise Cloud on Ubuntu OS

Join Canonical and Intel for a lively discussion on Canonical's Ubuntu OS, a key enabling technology for Enterprise Clouds. Learn how Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud implementations address Amazon EC2 compatibility, public/private cloud interoperability, Intel Virtualization Technology and more. Ask a question of our experts and gain insights that will guide your own cloud deployment.

To attend, go to:

Hope to see you there!

:-Dustin

Monday, May 17, 2010

A UEC Beginner's Guide

Murthyraju Manthena dropped me an email last week, pointing me to some excellent documentation (including charts, diagrams, code snippets, and commands) that he and his company put together based on their experiences with the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and Eucalyptus:

http://cssoss.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/eucalyptus-beginner%E2%80%99s-guide-%E2%80%93-uec%C2%A0edition/

You might find some benefit from their documentation, supplementing the wiki docs at:

http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC

And the upstream documentation at:

http://eucalyptus.com/resources/overview

Cheers,
:-Dustin

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Server Bug Zapping: Eucalyptus, Euca2ools, Cloud-Init, Cloud-Utils

Mathias Gug, Scott Moser, and I traveled to Santa Barbara, California to sprint with Dan Nurmi of Eucalyptus Systems.

It was a bit of a hectic week, as Eucalyptus had just named Marten Mickos their new CEO. Congratulations to Eucalyptus on what appears to be a huge step forward in their business development in the open source cloud space!

We spent quite a bit of the week triaging and fixing bugs in Ubuntu's cloud packages. Here's a few stats, looking back at the week:

eucalyptus - 6 uploads, 11 bugs fixed
euca2ools - 3 uploads, 13 bugs fixed
cloud-utils - 1 upload, 1 bug fixed
cloud-init - 1 upload, 1 bug fixed

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is really shaping up to be a great UEC release. I'm quite looking forward to it!

:-Dustin

About the Author

Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Seven Reasons to Deploy Your Enterprise Cloud on Ubuntu OS (Webcast I'm giving at Intel.com)

Monday, May 17, 2010

A UEC Beginner's Guide

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Server Bug Zapping: Eucalyptus, Euca2ools, Cloud-Init, Cloud-Utils

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