Happy Father's Day, a day to celebrate your kids

Foxnews has a post on what Father’s day is really about - cherishing your sons and daughters.

Father’s Day has always been a special day for me. But today, as with the previous seven Father’s Days, the feelings of pride and satisfaction over my son Travis and daughter Ryan will be mixed with a void in my heart that can never be replaced.

That is because Travis will not be with us. 

In April of 2007, he was serving as a Marine first lieutenant when he was killed in action in Iraq’s Al Anbar Province, cut down by a sniper’s armor-piercing bullet after his unit was ambushed while searching a suspected insurgent house. He had just helped save two wounded comrades when the bullet struck him in the heart. He was 26.

I am one of thousands of fathers whose thoughts will turn today to a son or daughter lost serving our country.

My kids are the reason why I celebrate Father’s day.  Hope all of you get to spend a special day with yours.

Microsoft 622, Google 371 - # of Publications on Machine Learning and AI

The way some people act, Machine Learning is something new.  It is something that has been around for quite a while.  To give you an idea Microsoft Research has 622 publications on the subject.

Google has 371 on the same subject.

Michael Dell says Being A Public Company limits Ability to Transform a Business

Dell is a private company now and is going through a transformation.  USAToday has an article on a Michael Dell interview.

It's a challenge Dell relishes after feeling handcuffed by the expectations from the market for a public company undergoing a significant makeover. "The market encourages (public companies) to not make investments in new areas," he says, wincing at the notion. "It is short-term focused."

IDC chimes in.

A private Dell allows it to move at its own speed to transform to an end-to-end technology solutions company without quarterly pressures from Wall Street and comparisons to rivals HP, Lenovo and Microsoft, says IDC analyst Matthew Eastwood, who closely follows Dell.

More and more companies are realizing being private has advantages vs. being public.

For now, the ending appears happy. "What I saw at Dell's analysts' meeting (in May) was a relaxed, confident Michael Dell," Moorhead says. "He is no longer under the thumb of Wall Street. He can make moves at his pace."

How many companies like Twitter who have gone public wish the old days of being able to take risks were part of DNA?  Like the days before the IPO.

IBM Softlayer uses Docker to Demo NetflixOSS

At IBM Impact which was going on the same time as Data Center World in LV, IBM presented Docker used to run NetflixOSS.  If you know the NetflixOSS, you’ll recognize the modules - ZuuL, Asgard, Cassandra, and the infamous Chaos Monkey.  Docker is throughout the system.

Back in Jan 2014, IBM presented at NetflixOSS’s event on running on IBM Softlayer.

Server Hugger Habit is Dying, VMware suffers as users migrate to Dockers

One of the reasons why VMs succeeded and VMware is it virtualized a server.  Which allows the server hugger habit to morph into server VM huggers.  The trouble about this is VMs are large which brings overhead for deployment, storage, management.  Which is great if you are selling management tools like VMware.  Now that users are realizing VMs don’t save as much money as they thought, there is a clear need for something better.

This where Dockers comes in.

The server huggers are in the past.  The current and future has huggers maybe hugging their services for users instead of servers.

This move can also be illustrated by the move from old way of shipping goods and the use of containers which supports abstractions of concerns, automation, efficiency, and bigger ecosystem

Why go through this effort?  If you want to have a future that looks like this.  Where your services can be easily deployed to a range of cloud environments including your own private cloud.