tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31028000040923999032024-02-19T00:37:39.875-05:00Bryan's BlogBryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-75715598041281293662012-02-15T06:00:00.000-05:002012-02-15T06:00:01.533-05:00I've Moved!I have started a new blog, <a href="http://tentenet.net/">tentenet.net</a>. I won't be posting here anymore. Please check out my <a href="http://tentenet.net/">new blog</a>!Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-50425885762636825852010-11-30T21:19:00.000-05:002010-11-30T21:19:47.708-05:00Welcome Makara!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-liBWwqalqFH5x334Ki4VNpiN9PL3BG7yNDzdYxHTO8Rr-yP1mF9-gWF4ChEpGRwDbQiyAM5VBLF3yK212Mp6Lfqzg2SS6jsGkjHi1ABDrdjxctFeIfKaC2NZkzrgKvVr5T_0-4iY_A/s1600/makara-picture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-liBWwqalqFH5x334Ki4VNpiN9PL3BG7yNDzdYxHTO8Rr-yP1mF9-gWF4ChEpGRwDbQiyAM5VBLF3yK212Mp6Lfqzg2SS6jsGkjHi1ABDrdjxctFeIfKaC2NZkzrgKvVr5T_0-4iY_A/s320/makara-picture.JPG" width="239" /></a></div><br />
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Today, we <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/makara.html">announced</a> that Red Hat has acquired <a href="http://makara.com/">Makara</a>. This acquisition is going to accelerate significantly Red Hat's <a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/PaaS/">offerings around Platform as a Service</a>. Makara includes many capabilities like auto-scaling, fantastic monitoring, and self-service portals for Java and LAMP applications in the cloud.<br />
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Combined with Red Hat's <a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/foundations/">Cloud Foundations</a> offerings as well as JBoss and Red Hat middleware platforms, we will be able to deliver the leading PaaS offering with:<br />
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<ul><li>Support for your choice of programming model and language, from full JEE to Spring to Ruby to LAMP and not just a proprietary or restricted API. This means you can run the broadest set of applications with the benefits of PaaS--including existing applications</li>
<li>Support for your choice of cloud--whether private or hybrid or public</li>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Welcome aboard, Makara, and I look forward to working together!</div>Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-91284707159125469722010-10-14T17:49:00.000-04:002010-10-14T17:49:40.286-04:00MRG 1.3 is ReleasedI'm pleased to announce the release of <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> 1.3. MRG 1.3 is a significant update that features many new enhancements, including:<br />
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<b><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">MRG 1.3 offers updated clients with improved performance, new protocol version independent C++ and Python clients, Windows C++ client and additional QMF APIs. Clustering enhancements include durable stores to provide optimized performance in clustered environments and stability improvements.</span></div></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The update also enables MRG Messaging to be recognized as a supported messaging transport for JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, and offers security improvements such as SASL support for Python, including Kerberos support.</span><br />
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Realtime<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">With MRG 1.3, Realtime will move to a 2.6.33-based kernel, and will include the new Performance Counter subsystem in the kernel and the new associated perf performance tool to enable greater performance capabilities for customers. The update also features new hardware enablement and certifications, which will incorporate a MRG Realtime hardware certification program that is expected to be introduced shortly for 1.3.</span><br />
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Grid<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">MRG Grid is a key component of Red Hat's <a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/foundations/">Cloud Foundations</a> and also for HPC markets. The release includes new user tools, Windows Execute Node support, enhanced workflow management, resource restriction capabilities, update configuration management and new admin tools. With these updates, customers will gain the ability to scale to tens of thousands of devices, be able to provision virtual machines, centralize configuration and management and utilize cloud spill-over capabilities.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For additional information on MRG 1.3, see the <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/14/red-hat-expands-messaging-realtime-and-grid-technology-capabilities-to-advance-cloud-leadership/">official release announcement</a>.</span></b>Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-67880318006138178772010-08-25T13:32:00.000-04:002010-08-25T13:32:35.299-04:00Red Hat Cloud UpdatesRed Hat made a number of cloud announcements today:<br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/cloud-foundations.html">Red Hat Cloud Foundations Centers on Portability and Interoperability, Garners Broad Industry Support</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825005997/en/Red-Hat-Announces-Developments-Cloud-Foundations-Portfolio">DreamWorks Animation to Utilize Red Hat Cloud Foundations for Future Film Releases</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/PaaS.html">Red Hat Outlines Comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Strategy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://press.redhat.com/2010/08/25/deltacloud-update-momentum/">Deltacloud Update & Momentum</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/DMTF.html">Red Hat Makes Step Toward Common Cloud API in Partnership with DMTF</a></li>
<li><a href="http://press.redhat.com/2010/08/25/apiwanted-org-we-want-the-right-cloud-apis/">APIwanted.org: We Want the Right Cloud APIs</a></li>
</ul>Additionally, I participated in a webcast where we outlined details around these announcements and our strategy. You can <a href="http://www-waa-akam.thomson-webcast.net/us/dispatching/?event_id=4823cc54f791257334ecc3038e901faf&portal_id=af9b227bf07c733390c2738ee0330646">view a replay of the webcast</a> if you missed it live.<div><br />
</div><div>Finally, if you'd like additional information on Red Hat's cloud solutions, check out <a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/foundations/">Cloud Foundations</a> and information on the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/portable/">Portable Cloud</a>. <br />
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<blockquote>Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX; TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end connectivity solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise MRG with the open Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol (AMQP) standard and Red Hat Enterprise Linux achieved Ethernet-based data center fabric performance, delivering a 42 percent reduction in latency using Mellanox ConnectX-2 with RDMA over Ethernet (RoE), with throughputs up to 1.2 million acknowledged messages per second, with latencies in the 10 microseconds range in tests conducted by Red Hat.</blockquote><br />
We'll also be presenting details of these results at the <a href="http://redhat.com/summit">Red Hat Summit</a> this week in the sessions:<br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/sessions/index.html#950988">Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging Performance Seminar</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/sessions/index.html#951119">Red Hat Enterprise MRG Update & Roadmap</a></li>
</ul>Additionally, Mellanox will be highlighting these results this week at their booth at <a href="http://events.sifma.org/2010/487/index.html">SIFMA</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-88078356890286933912010-06-21T10:54:00.001-04:002010-06-22T11:43:17.318-04:00Red Hat Summit 2010 This WeekThe <a href="http://redhat.com/summit">Red Hat Summit</a> is taking place this week in my hometown of Boston. The conference kicks off tomorrow, and I'll be presenting three sessions there:<br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/sessions/cloud.html#509467">Cloud with Red Hat: What, Where, and How</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/sessions/index.html#951119">Red Hat Enterprise MRG Update & Roadmap</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2010/sessions/index.html#951126">Next-Generation Red Hat Management Tools for the Datacenter & Cloud</a></li>
</ul>I'll also be meeting customers and partners at our Systems Management VIP lounge and other events. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you at the Summit this week!Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-49283376845242736962010-04-15T13:18:00.000-04:002010-04-15T13:18:09.373-04:00Condor Week 2010 PresentationsThis week is <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2010/index.html">Condor Week</a>, and this is always a big event for the <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/">Condor project</a>, from which we build <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mrg/grid/">MRG Grid</a>. Red Hat has a strong <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mrg/grid/condor/">partnership</a> with the University of Wisconsin, and we are happy to participate in this year's event with two presentations today. <br />
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In case you're not able to attend the sessions in person, here are links to them:<br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.wisc.edu%2Fcondor%2FCondorWeek2010%2Fcondor-presentations%2Ffarrellee-red-hat-mrg.pdf">Red Hat MRG</a> by Matthew Farrellee</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.wisc.edu%2Fcondor%2FCondorWeek2010%2Fcondor-presentations%2Fbenton-wallaby.pdf">Improving Condor Configuration Management with Wallaby</a> by Will Benton and Rob Rati</span></li>
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Here's a quote from the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/ibm-cloud.html?intcmp=70160000000INqiAAG">press release</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Our decade-long partnership with Red Hat has always been focused on customer value and innovation. Today, we are extending this partnership to include cloud computing – broadening our reach and answering the strong customer demand for cloud computing services," said Maria Azua, vice president of Cloud Computing Enablement at IBM. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is an optimal hypervisor technology for the infrastructure offerings on the IBM cloud."</blockquote><br />
Virtualization is one of the foundational technologies of cloud computing, so it's great to see that when it came to building its own cloud, IBM chose Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the optimal solution amongst all the available possibilities in the market.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-88546246551971942882010-03-03T12:31:00.001-05:002010-03-03T12:32:58.608-05:00Deutsche Börse Customer Case Study for MRGToday, Red Hat published an <a href="http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/deutsche-borse.html">announcement</a> and a <a href="http://customers.redhat.com/2010/03/03/deutsche-boerse-red-hat-mrg-case-study/">case study</a> on how <a href="http://deutsche-boerse.com/dbag/dispatch/en/kir/gdb_navigation/home">Deutsche Börse</a>, the German Stock Exchange, is using <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> for their new risk management system as well as their upcoming trading platform:<br />
<blockquote>"We decided to implement Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging with AMQP because we wanted to make it as easy as possible for our client banks to access the relevant risk data. Using the open standard AMQP helps us to avoid complex and time-consuming development of customized adaptors," said Gerhard Lessmann, member of the executive board at Deutsche Börse Systems.</blockquote>Furthermore,<br />
<blockquote>“In addition to the risk management system, we are in the process of building an entirely new trading platform for Deutsche Börse Group, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise MRG,” said Gerhard Lessmann, DBS. “In this context it was a logical decision to work with Red Hat also for our risk management project. We always work to keep our IT operations focused on their core tasks and to minimise support workload on the team. Having Red Hat support readily available as a single point of contact is an excellent way to achieve just that.”</blockquote><br />
As a leading exchange, Deutsche Börse, has extremely high requirements for their software infrastructure. So, we're glad to have such a positive endorsement from them. We're also happy to be working with Deutsche Börse on the <a href="http://amqp.org/">AMQP</a> specification itself as part of the AMQP working group.<br />
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You can read the <a href="http://customers.redhat.com/2010/03/03/deutsche-boerse-red-hat-mrg-case-study/">full case study here</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-22195874263645128012010-03-02T10:06:00.000-05:002010-03-02T10:06:25.532-05:00Open Source Energy Savings with Condor<a href="http://www.forbes.com/">Forbes</a> has an article today on <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/01/energy-management-software-technology-cio-network-condor.html">Open Source Energy Savings</a> using <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/">Condor</a>. In addition to highlighting how Condor can help with saving energy in a data center, the article features Red Hat and our work around Condor with <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> a couple times:<br />
<blockquote>Two years ago Red Hat worked out a partnership deal with the university to make Condor open source using the Apache Foundation license.</blockquote>and<br />
<blockquote>Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies at Red Hat, is working on combining a large collection of open source projects into a cloud provisioning and management suite. "The move to cloud computing as the next generation architecture has only been possible by integrating many of these open source projects, such as Condor," says Cormier. "It is only natural that the software for creating and managing these virtual environments come from the world of open source as well."</blockquote><br />
The energy savings policies you can implement with Condor are nice, but we see these features as truly beneficial for most enterprises as part of a cloud solution. For example, we have added virtualization support to Condor, which can further improve power management in a cloud deployment. Let's say you had two servers each running at 50% capacity with one virtual machine job on each of them. You could have a Condor job which moved one of the virtual machine jobs to the other server, consolidating all work on one machine. Then, you could have a Condor job turn off the other machine.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-77201549961154271282009-12-07T10:00:00.004-05:002009-12-07T10:00:06.833-05:00Red Hat Virtual Experience 2009This Wednesday December 9, 2009, Red Hat will be hosting its <a href="http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/rhexp/about.php">Red Hat Virtual Experience</a> event focused on cloud computing. I have a session there in the afternoon regarding <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">MRG</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Building and Leveraging Compute Clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG<br />
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This presentation will cover the current state of Red Hat's cloud efforts and provide technical information that details how to build a cloud infrastructure based on Red Hat's technologies and blueprints. The presentation will also provide an overview of the capabilities and features Red Hat Enterprise MRG and Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtualization jointly provide and how workload scheduling and virtualization can be used as an enterprise management platform.<br />
</blockquote>There's also many other great sessions. You can see the agenda <a href="http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/rhexp/agenda.php">here</a>.<br />
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The Red Hat Virtual Experience 2009 is free to attend, and you can register <a href="http://vs.virtualevents365.com/redhat/pregateway?page=summits/1100/enter/registration.jsp">here</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-38749627372466839752009-12-07T08:22:00.000-05:002009-12-07T08:22:22.824-05:00MRG 1.2 is AvailableI'm pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mrg/">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> 1.2 is now available. MRG 1.2 provides many improvements, including:<br />
<ul><li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 support</li>
<li>Significant messaging performance updates and benchmark data. For example, results include over 1.5 million reliable messages/second throughput per system and under 40 microsecond latency for reliable messaging on infiniband with our RDMA drivers. Perhaps even more impressively, we have achieved over 1 million messages per second virtualized on KVM with 10GB networks--this is within 5% of bare metal</li>
<li>New and updated Realtime tools. RTEval is a new tool that detects hardware latencies in systems and complements our realtime hardware certification program in helping customers get the best performance from their entire application platform--both hardware and operating system<br />
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<li>Grid enhancements like support for hierarchical fair share, KVM virtual machines (the new standard in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4) and Condor 7.4</li>
<li>Many more optimizations and updates<br />
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You can read more about the MRG 1.2 release at <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/12/07/red-hat-enterprise-mrg-1-2-release-features-expanded-cloud-and-virtualization-enablement/">press.redhat.com</a>. You can also read MRG 1.2's <a href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.2/html-single/MRG_Release_Notes/index.html">release notes</a>. <br />
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Existing MRG customers can <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">yum update</span> their systems to get the new release. Prospects can <a href="http://www.redhat.com/mrg/buy/">contact Red Hat</a> for more information.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-82978515170956424472009-10-29T17:54:00.000-04:002009-10-29T17:54:56.224-04:00How to Forward Your Mobile Phone's Voicemail to Google Voice with a Full Google Voice Account (and Still Use Your Mobile Phone with Your Google Number)Google recently announced the option to use <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/use-google-voice-with-your-existing.html">Google Voice with your existing number</a>. By selecting this option when you sign up for Google Voice, Google Voice effectively becomes an enhanced voicemail service with capabilities like SMS alerting, archiving, and transcripts, but you <a href="http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?answer=164819">lose out on many other great features</a> like ringing multiple phones or ListenIn. Given this, I'm not sure why anyone would want to sign up for this limited service.<br />
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Instead, you can sign up for a full Google Voice account and get Google Voice voicemail for your existing number--plus preserve the option to use all of Google Voice's other features with a new number if you like. With this option, whether someone calls your mobile phone number or your Google number, Google Voice will handle your voicemail.<br />
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Here's how to setup your mobile phone to use Google Voice's voicemail with a full Google Voice account:<br />
<ol><li>Sign up for a <a href="http://www.google.com/voice">Google Voice</a> account. Note that you'll need an invite to join, currently</li>
<li>Select the option to create an account with a Google Number rather than a non-Google number</li>
<li>Add your mobile phone to your Google Voice account</li>
<li>Go to <a href="https://www.google.com/voice/?#phones">Settings</a> in Google Voice and click on the <span style="color: blue;">"Activate Google voicemail on this phone"</span> link</li>
<li>Follow Google Voice's popup instructions to forward your phone's voicemail to Google Voice<br />
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<li>Go back to <a href="https://www.google.com/voice/?#phones">Settings</a> in Google Voice and click the <span style="color: blue;">"Edit"</span> link on the settings for your mobile phone</li>
<li>Click <span style="color: blue;">"Show advanced settings"</span></li>
<li>Under the "Forwarding Options" section, set <span style="color: blue;">"Go straight to voicemail."<span style="color: black;"> This will ensure that Google Voice won't try to ring your other phones once your mobile phone has forwarded to voicemail</span></span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></li>
</ol><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">That's it! Now, when someone calls your mobile phone number and you don't answer, it will go to Google Voice's voicemail--just like with Google's Google Voice With Your Own Number service. But, you still have the option to switch to your Google number in the future and take advantage of all of Google Voice's other features. So, for example, if someone calls your Google number, it will also ring your mobile phone. <br />
</span></span>Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-24869504424648043512009-10-16T10:51:00.000-04:002009-10-16T10:51:21.807-04:00Cloud Storage HubbubWhy is it that the media is <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/?p=902&tag=content;col1">still</a> writing articles about whether Microsoft and T-Mobile's Sidekick <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10368709-56.html?tag=mncol;txt">data loss issue</a> is going to put a damper on cloud storage, but nobody is asking whether Apple's <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/12/snow_leopard_data_eating_bug/">bug in Snow Leopard that deletes all personal data</a> is going to stop people from storing data locally? Articles reporting initially on each incident came out within a few days of each other.<br />
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Part of the reason that the Sidekick failure--and it is a catastrophic failure--is causing people to question cloud storage is because everyone is writing articles asking this question. But, nobody is writing articles asking anything similar about Apple.<br />
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The Sidekick incident doesn't illustrate a fault of cloud storage versus local storage--it just shows that you still need to care about protecting your data, no matter where you store it. Maybe the fact that everyone is writing about Sidekick rather than Snow Leopard illustrates that Cloud Computing is even sexier and more buzz-worthy than Apple!Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-16400255454807903532009-09-08T18:57:00.000-04:002009-09-08T18:57:24.444-04:00MRG Presentations and Videos from the SummitI'm back from Chicago from another great Red Hat Summit. I have uploaded my two presentations from the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/">2009 Red Hat Summit</a> online: <br />
<ul><li><a href="http://people.redhat.com/bche/presentations/summit2009-mrg-update.pdf">Red Hat Enterprise MRG Update</a></li>
<li><a href="http://people.redhat.com/bche/presentations/summit2009-mrg-cloud.pdf">Building and Leveraging Compute Clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a></li>
</ul>As an additional treat, you can also view videos of one of my sessions, as well as our CTO Brian Stevens' keynote, which highlighted cloud computing with MRG and other technologies. I can't link to the videos directly, but you can find them at<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/highlights/">http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/highlights/</a> </li>
</ul>Brian Stevens' keynote is on the first tab. My MRG presentation is on the <i>Summit Sessions </i>tab.<br />
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Finally, you can watch a demo video of cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise MRG. In this video, I bridge and aggregate three different clouds together (a local render cloud, an internal cloud provisioned by Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and Amazon EC2) into one seamless render cloud for film rendering. This video created quite a buzz at the Summit, so enjoy!<br />
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<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oSm7Ff8kKjk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oSm7Ff8kKjk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-46929925034415159422009-08-28T16:10:00.001-04:002009-08-28T16:13:14.830-04:00Red Hat Enterprise MRG at the Red Hat SummitNext week is the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/">Red Hat Summit</a> in Chicago. We'll be featuring <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> there prominently:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/abstracts_whatsnew.html#572416">Building and Leveraging Compute Clouds with Red Hat Enterprise MRG <br />
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<li><a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/abstracts_whatsnew.html#581917">MRG Messaging: A Programmer's Overview</a> </li>
<li> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/abstracts_whatsnext.html#572433">Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, Grid) Update and Roadmap</a></li>
<li>A booth demonstrating cloud computing with MRG</li>
<li>A special demo during our CTO Brian Stevens' keynote on cloud computing</li>
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I'll be at the Summit presenting the cloud computing and MRG update sessions. I hope to see you there!<br />
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(The direct links to the sessions at the summit web site don't load that well due to the fancy javascript on that site. You can go to <a href="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/">http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2009/agenda/tracks/</a> and find the tracks manually to get a much better view of the info)Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-79598681942141337372009-08-26T21:31:00.001-04:002009-08-28T11:30:05.214-04:00The Easy Way to Install TweetDeck on Linux and Work Around Error #5100I tried installing <a href="http://tweetdeck.com/">TweetDeck</a> on my <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a> Linux laptop and ran into an <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Error #5100</span>. I did a <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=tweetdeck+error+5100">Google search</a>, and it turns out that many other people have run into this error and solved it by doing things like downloading Adobe AIR and TweetDeck, and installing these files manually as root.<br />
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<strike>I found a much easier way: run FireFox (or whatever browser you use) as root, go to <a href="http://tweetdeck.com/">http://tweetdeck.com/</a>, and click the "Download Now" link. Everything works!</strike><br />
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Update: according to <span class="fn"><a href="http://twitter.com/smmehadi">smmehadi</a> at Adobe, installing xterm first is the truly easy and recommended way to solve this issue. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/air/systemreqs/">http://www.adobe.com/products/air/systemreqs/</a><br />
</span>Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-3297537384295626772009-07-13T18:23:00.000-04:002009-07-13T18:23:08.976-04:00MRG In The Open Source Cloud Computing ForumRed Hat is hosting an online event, the <a href="http://www.redhat.com/cloudcomputingforum/">Open Source Cloud Computing Forum</a>, on July 22, 2009. <a href="http://spinningmatt.wordpress.com/">Matt Farrellee</a> from the MRG team will be presenting on how <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/">Condor</a>, the <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg/grid">Grid</a> component in <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">MRG</a>, helps with building and adopting clouds during the 5th session at 11:30am.<br />
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The event is free also features lots of other great sessions. Read more about it <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/07/13/open-source-cloud-computing-forum-agenda-posted/">here</a> and then <a href="https://inquiries.redhat.com/go/redhat/CloudForumAttend">register</a> to attend!Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-71784929803859576892009-07-13T18:13:00.000-04:002009-07-13T18:13:10.339-04:00Introducing QpidComponents.orgWe've launched a new Web site, <a href="http://qpidcomponents.org/">http://qpidcomponents.org</a>. This site features additional components and tools for enterprise AMQP messaging that we have developed for <a href="http://qpid.apache.org/">Apache Qpid</a>. We also ship productized and supported versions of these components and tools in <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a>.<br />
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Notably, <a href="http://qpidcomponents.org/">QPidComponents.org</a> includes a high-speed persistence library and management tools. Why don't we just include these components in the QPid project? One major reason is that they're licensed under open source licenses other than the Apache license. For example, because the persistence library tightly ties to Linux, which is licensed under the GPL, we can't license that code under the Apache license.<br />
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Check out <a href="http://qpidcomponents.org/">http://qpidcomponents.org</a> if you use QPid!Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-79393599838258892192009-06-24T07:37:00.001-04:002009-06-24T08:51:32.792-04:00Carl Trieloff Keynote about AMQP/MRG at SIFMA 2009SIFMA's <a href="http://www.sifma.org/events/2009/315/index.html">Technology Management Conference & Exhibit </a>is perhaps Wall St's biggest such annual event. Carl Trieloff will deliver this morning's opening keynote, followed by Stanley Young, the CEO of NYSE Technologies.<br />
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Carl's talk is on <a href="http://events.sifma.org/2009/315/event.aspx?id=6986">Building Financial Use Cases Directly into Messaging Software for Better Performance and Productivity</a> and will cover work we've done in <a href="http://amqp.org/">AMQP</a> and <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> to provide a leading messaging platform and ecosystem.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-24431545058891813532009-06-18T21:15:00.000-04:002009-06-18T21:15:30.317-04:00MRG Realtime Slides From HP Tech Forum 2009I've posted online my slides from my presentation today at the <a href="https://www.hptechnologyforum.com/">HP Technology Forum and Expo</a> about <a href="https://www.hptechnologyforum.com/content/sessionDetail.do?SESSION_ID=2906">Realtime Performance with Red Hat Enterprise MRG and HP Systems</a>. <br />
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You can <a href="http://people.redhat.com/bche/presentations/hptf2009-RealtimePerformanceWithMRGAndHP.pdf">download them here</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-5031326646812828302009-06-18T12:52:00.000-04:002009-06-18T12:52:57.205-04:00Cloud, Utility, Grid and Other Mixed MetaphorsI've written a new blog post for <a href="http://press.redhat.com/">press.redhat.com</a>: <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/18/cloud-utility-grid-and-other-mixed-metaphors/">Cloud, Utility, Grid and Other Mixed Metaphors</a>. It discusses three terms that people typically use together but are often unclear about how they fit: cloud computing, utility computing, and grid computing. The post illustrates the differences between the concepts and also describes how they fit together by using <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">Red Hat Enterprise MRG</a> as an example of how to achieve all three. <br />
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Check out the post at <a href="http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/18/cloud-utility-grid-and-other-mixed-metaphors/">http://press.redhat.com/2009/06/18/cloud-utility-grid-and-other-mixed-metaphors/</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-20666614013909721182009-06-16T02:36:00.000-04:002009-06-16T02:36:24.853-04:00MRG at the HP Technology Forum 2009I'm at the <a href="https://www.hptechnologyforum.com/">HP Technology Forum and Expo 2009</a> in Las Vegas right now. On Thursday morning, I'll be speaking on <a href="https://www.hptechnologyforum.com/content/sessionDetail.do?SESSION_ID=2906">Realtime Performance with Red Hat Enterprise MRG and HP Systems</a>. The session is first thing after breakfast, so it's early--but it will be worth it! Also, we are demonstrating MRG Messaging and Realtime at the Red Hat Booth in the Expo center. So, stop by to see MRG in action (and also to pick up a free red hat).Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-59512398768722231222009-06-08T14:14:00.015-04:002009-07-27T20:58:50.743-04:00Simultaneously Charging the Novatel MiFi 2200 via USB and using Wifi, and Other MiFi Thoughts<i>Updated 7/27/2009</i><br />
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I recently upgraded my wireless USB modem from a Sprint Novatel Ovation U727 to a <a href="http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?phoneSKU=NV2200WFDO">Sprint Novatel MiFi 2200</a>. The MiFi 2200 is a great, tiny device that integrates a 3G modem with a wireless router so that you can connect multiple wifi-enabled devices to your 3G modem. There are all sorts of <a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=novatel+mifi+2200+review&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=novatel+mifi+2200+review&aqi=&fp=ngLn-GQt4P4">reviews of the MiFi 2200</a> on the Web already, so I won't add an in-depth review. I will say, though, that:<br />
<ul><li>The Sprint version of the MiFi 2200 doesn't come with an included USB Micro data cable, so you'll need to get one if you want to tether or charge from your computer. On the other hand, unlike the Verizon version which does come with a cable, the Sprint version doesn't require being connected to a Windows PC for activation, so it's easy to setup</li>
<li>The Sprint version of the MiFi 2200 includes GPS, but it's pretty useless. You have to go to a Web page on the router and go to linked searches from that specific interface for local resources</li>
</ul>If you connect the MiFi 2200 to your computer via a USB Micro cable, it acts as a tethered modem. The instructions I wrote for <a href="http://bryanche.blogspot.com/2008/05/creating-wireless-3g-network-connection.html">using a Novatel Ovation U727 modem on Fedora</a> work for the MiFi 2200 as a tethered modem as well.<br />
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One of the limitations of the MiFi 2200 is that if you connect it to your computer with a USB Micro, it won't work as a wifi router. This creates problems if you want to charge your MiFi 2200 via USB while also sharing your connection or using an operating system/laptop without adequate drivers for using the MiFi 2200 as a tethered modem. I've worked around this limitation in two ways:<br />
<ul><li>Purchase a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Mini-Surge-Mount-Charger/dp/B0016IXEWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1244483572&sr=1-1">Belkin Mini Surge 3OUT</a>. <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31OuYdZ1tdL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="96" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31OuYdZ1tdL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" width="96" /></a> This is a fanstastic, travel-sized power strip with 3 outlets and 2 USB jacks. You can use this to power your MiFi 2200 via USB and also share a power outlet with other devices, like your laptop. The Belkin Mini Surge is great if you want to use a power outlet in public, but it's already full. By plugging in the Mini Surge, you can share that power outlet with other people<br />
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<li>Purchase an <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/b43f/">iPhone USB Charging Adapter</a>. <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/b43f_iphone_usb_charging_adapter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="52" src="http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/b43f_iphone_usb_charging_adapter.jpg" width="96" /></a><br />
Even though this adapter says its for iPhones, what it really does is take a USB cable and strip out the data across it, leaving only power. By plugging this adapter to a USB Micro cable, you can then attach your MiFi 2200 to your laptop's USB port to charge it but still have the MiFi 2200 function as a wireless router </li>
</ul><i>Update 7/27/2009</i><br />
One important thing to note is that the MiFi 2200 requires a lot of power to charge, and many off-the-shelf USB micro cables won't be able to send enough power to the MiFi 2200 to charge it from a USB port. In fact, I've tried several different USB micro cables with my MiFi with varying degrees of successful charging. So, if you buy an iPhone USB Charging Adapter or try using the Belkin Mini Surge but aren't able to charge your MiFi, the chances are that it's your USB Micro cable which is the problem.<br />
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I've recently purchased a <a href="http://3gstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=273&products_id=1476">Tekkeon TekCharge MP1800</a>, which is a portable battery back that can power and charge the MiFi 2200 as well as other power-hugry devices (like my iPhone). <br />
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The TekCharge comes with a retractable cable that is able to charge the MiFi from a computer's USB port, and it also provides a compact battery for giving your other electronic gadgets additional runtime and charge. Since purchasing the TekCharge, I just use the cable that came with it and no longer need the iPhone USB charger.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3102800004092399903.post-34847267483817327212009-06-01T10:07:00.000-04:002009-06-01T10:07:09.699-04:00MRG/AMQP Keynote at STAC Performance Summit in NYC on June 4, 2009I'll be at the <a href="http://www.stacresearch.com/node/4904">STAC Performance Summit</a> this Thursday, June 4, in New York City. Carl Trieloff from my team will be delivering a keynote there and discussing new developments around <a href="http://amqp.org/">AMQP</a> and <a href="http://redhat.com/mrg">MRG</a> as well as industry changes that we see coming as a result. He'll also be highlighting some interesting performance data and work that we're doing with STAC.<br />
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The STAC Performance Summit is free to attend for end-user firms--you can find more information and register at <a href="http://www.stacresearch.com/node/4904">http://www.stacresearch.com/node/4904</a>.Bryan Chehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523969276010294944noreply@blogger.com1