From the blogger formerly known as Nickapedia
Believe it or not, this is actually the first true big blog post since I announced I was joining Intel. That is 1.5 years of being buried over my head in all the cool things Intel does in the data center. I could write a whole different post just on how much different I see…
Read more What if collecting data center telemetry was a snap?
Intel and OpenStack Interesting new focus from Intel. Seems like something fun to be a part of this year 🙂 .nick
I have been traveling around this year speaking on automation and how it is a positive evolution to technology engineers. I love nothing more than inspiring engineers to push themselves into fun tools and patterns for making themselves more valuable. This week and next I will be speaking at both VMworld 2013 and PuppetConf 2013…
I wake up everyday committed to not doing things the same old way. That is why my title has that funny word ‘Automation’ in it. I am tasked with finding a way to make what is fragile, expensive, risky, and complex; easier to manage. While most of what I am working on at VMware is…
I mentioned in a slightly important recent post that Razor, the new cloud provisioning tool for bare & virtual metal, has a full RESTful API. Now I back that up with some documentation. Freshly added to the Razor Wiki on github is a overview of the Razor API. This includes examples on the JSON format…
I am very prone to drifting off into thoughts about patterns in real life and how they correlate to things I deal with in my work life. I am fascinated by the thought of the constantly blurring line between ourselves and technology. It is really amazing to think about how social and mobile technologies have…
