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Red Hat Wants to be a Dominant Force in the Cloud (Video)
Red Hat has two primary Cloud Evangelists: Gordon Haff and Richard Morrell. Richard says this about himself: "I'm Red Hat's Cloud Security Blogger and Cloud Evangelist based in Europe. Passionate about good code and Open Hybrid Cloud. Founder of SmoothWall protecting millions of networks for 13 years globally. My blogging and my podcasting is my own editorial and does not represent the views of Red Hat..." We have known Richard since the 20th Century, so this interview has been a long time coming. In it, he talks about how Red Hat is working to become as strong in the Open Source cloud world as it already is in GNU/Linux. This interview may not "represent the views of Red Hat," but it obviously represents the views of a loyal Red Hat employee who is also a long-time Linux enthusiast.
Who doesnt want to be a force in the cloud? Duh...
Red Hat and everyone else.
Good job hopping on the buzzword 5 years late, you open sore humps.
Buzzword bingo anyone?
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A buddy of mine spent a lot of money earlier this year to attend a Red Hat convention and take the (Paid) cloud training. What a waste. While the training was hands but very simple. The trainer didn't know much more than the attendees and it seemed clear to all parties involved it was not ready for prime time.
There's no video showing up, only blank space. This is 2013 guys, Flash died years ago.
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the government NSA spys has killed any trust in telecommunications and internet connectivity, if i had anything of value that i wanted to keep private such as blueprints and plans for products soon to be sold on the market i surely wont keep any of that on any networked computer, and if i had to transport data anywhere it would be put on an encrypted usb thumbdrive which is easily hidden and/or transported anywhere
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WTF ? I mean, with such a job title, how ridiculous can one be ???
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Clown Computing. Clown storage. Clown servers! Clown backup! We're number one in Clown Security! Whoopee! Tape your spreadsheets to the windows facing outward! Put your data in The Clown!
There are a lot of cloud providers, but what would be nice is a standard on client-side encryption and key management [1], regardless of what cloud provider destination. That way, if I'm sending files to Dropbox, S3, Glacier, RH's cloud, Azure, or another provider, all I have to do is change out the name and authentication info, not have to use a completely different API. This would also allow me to have redundant cloud storage for vital documents, automatically retrieving a document even if one of the providers is offline.
[1]: Key management is just as important as encryption, but it is something that gets forgotten about until a disaster, and one has a nice pile of tapes... but no way to decrypt them.
Misread this as "Red Hat Wants to be a Dominant Force in Cloud Video" and thought they were so upset at YouTube/Google + integration they were going to do something about it. So disappointed.
have the cloud-to-butt browser extension?
If I pay for support, and I have my own rpms of openstack, will Redhat support running RHEL5 guests in the Redhat hypervisors? Who can I ask for a clear answer about that?
In short, how much can I deviate from the official redhat openstack packages before they won't help support the code?
Who else can I hire to help support this custom openstack code?
Be calm Red Hat the road is long.
What do you plan to dominate ? Once RHEL 7 gets delivered, all your major customers will rush away switching to alternative Linux Distributions or back to Windows Desktops / Servers. Please don't get me deepter into explaining why! Dominate with an usable Desktop first!
Because Lennart Pottering is a giant tool bag who has no respect and/or understanding for Unix-like design principles?
The company that inflicted systemd on us and shoved it down our unwilling throats, that has bullied and harried virtually every other distro into adopting many of it's worst abortions of the UNIX way, that's single handedly pushing a growing number of people toward *bsd who were once quite happy with Linux, now a dominant player in "cloud" computing.
No fucking thanks. Red Hat is the Microsoft of Linux, and it's really starting to show.
Slashdot video needs a cloud-to-butt plugin. But seriously, Ubuntu is now the dominant OS in the space (surprise!) largely because Canonical has been focused here since 2009, and they've made some very astute decisions backing the right technologies, e.g. shifting quickly from Eucalyptus to Open Stack.