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This year I cannot make it to 7x24 Exchange Spring event in Boca Raton. And, this event is the 30th year celebration of the event.
This year’s focus is on processing at the edge which is one of the hot topics in data centers.
and I am going to miss the tribute to my dear friend David Schirmacher. Missing David still brings great sadness. The industry lost one of the great ones.
I was chatting with an old Apple friend. How old? We worked together over 30 years ago. Catching up he said he heard that John Medica had passed away.
I found a Remembrance here at Wake Forest University site.
“John’s zest for life was contagious,” reflected Don Flow (MBA ’83), a fellow classmate and University Trustee. “His boisterous laugh brought joy to anyone in his presence and his kind and generous thoughtfulness was a profound expression of how much he cared for all of the people in his life.”
Another more personal post is here.
It sounds like a cliché, but when God conjured up John, he broke the mold. I mean this in the most literal sense possible. He was larger than life in every way that accentuates the few special folks we intersect with throughout our lives who actually make a difference.
Upon reflection, what I remember most about John is not his accomplishments in the technology space at Dell (which were enormous), but the plaintive fact is that he was just a kind and good person. Full stop. When you met John, you instantly wanted to be his friend and you wanted to hang around with him.
I was lucky to work with John when he was Apple as the project leader for the Mac II, taking numerous trips to Japan and Hong Kong with him and the other analog team members who worked on power supplies and monitors. I was amazed that John would go with us so often, but he knew those analog devices had to get done to ship the Mac II.
John’s signature as Project Champion on the Apple IIGS is on this certificate at upper left. First person to sign. After Woz.
When John went to Dell and I was at Microsoft I would keep in touch with John and sometimes visit him when he was working in Dell Japan and I had trips to Japan visiting the MSKK office.
Working at Apple Sheila Brady and John Medica were two people who I learned so much on how to run a large project.
John was so passionate about his work, and he deserved a long retirement after all his hard work. It is so sad that at 59 he left us on Oct 13, 2017. Sorry I missed the news of his passing.
While I was in SF last week I went to Park Tavern with some friends. Below is picture of the restaurant.
On the menu is Poulet Noir. Sounded good, but did not want to wait 30 minutes for the meal.
Curious I found the recipe for the Park Tavern Poulet Noir.
Looking at the recipe it looked like I could do it. One of the recommendations is to use a Staub vertical chicken roaser which is what I use in my weekly chicken cooking. Below is a 5lb roasting chicken. the Park Tavern has a 1 1/2 cornish hen. They do a better job of presentation. I’ll think about taking the roasted vegetables and place them in the roaster.
Data Economy has an article on the 50 power women in the data economy. My first inclination was to look for people and/or companies I think of in leadership positions and have been presenting at data center conferences.
Two Google execs - Heather Dooley and Sarah Clatterbuck.
Two Facebook execs - Delfina Elberly and Rachel Peterson.
Microsoft exec - Julie White.
Going through the article it was nice to see others who made the list and their background. if you click on a person you get more information. Like Heather Dooley’s background.
With over 20 years of experience, Dooley has invested most of her time in helping to build out the internet as we know it.
She is a key team member within Google’s data centre expansion board and has a strong say on the company’s long term and strategic advancements of its cloud infrastructure.
She also leads Google’s program management for metrics and analytics, new products, documentation, and communications.
Prior to joining Google, Dooley has also worked at other giants including Microsoft and Earthlink.
She is also an advocate for gender equality and is actively always pursuing ways to open new doors of opportunities for women in tech and is a member of 7×24 Exchange Women in Mission Critical Operations Committee (WiMCO).
Janakiram MSV has a nice post on Forbes explaining Google’s Anthos. Janakarim starts off with a description of the current state which I totally agree with.
Despite the extensive coverage at Google Cloud Next and, of course, the general availability, the Anthos announcement was confusing. The documentation is sparse, and the service is not fully integrated with the self-service console. Except for the hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud application deployment, not much is known about this new technology from Google.
What is Google’s strategy?
The core theme of Anthos is application modernization. Google envisages a future where all enterprise applications will run on Kubernetes.
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With Anthos, Google wants all your contemporary microservices-based applications (greenfield) in Kubernetes while migrating existing VMs (brownfield) to containers. Applications running in non-x86 architecture and legacy apps will continue to run either in physical or virtual machines.
How does Google Anthos relate to AWS and Azure?
Anthos is a bold move from Google. It is taking a calculated risk in moving away from the clichéd hybrid cloud narrative that its competitors are using to lure enterprises. Anthos is bound to be compared with Microsoft Azure Stack and AWS hybrid story consisting of VMware and Outposts. The fundamental difference between Google and the rest lies in the technology foundation strongly rooted in containers and Kubernetes.
Janakiram did a nice job of putting into one post that can be so hard to figure out what Anthos is.