Thursday, July 30, 2026

The rise of sovereignty

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My first customer roadshow when I was at Red Hat highlighted governance (and security) as one of the concerns that many folks had about doin...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Red Hat Summit: Early production and themes

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The customary dating of AI is to the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project, a gathering of elite researchers at Dartmouth College in New Ha...
Monday, April 13, 2026

The zeitgeist of Kubecon in Amsterdam 2026

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For various reasons, the past year has seen me devoting way too much time and mental energy to house and related matters (middle-of-the-nigh...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: There's no one workload type

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 We're at one of the more interesting periods for virtualization in 25 years of so. That's about the time that Diane Greene, a co-fo...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Making AI more open: It's not all or nothing

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I had a discussion with someone at the Linux Foundation Member Summit after Richard Fontana from Red Hat's talk and they didn't buy ...
Monday, February 03, 2025

What I'm keeping my eye on for computing's future

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A bit over a year ago, I gave a presentation at the Linux Foundation Member Summit , where I took a look at some of the technologies cat...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

What we got wrong about the cloud

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 Not everyone bought my comparison of how the cloud developed and AI is developing that  I posted the other day . But I wanted to flesh out ...

Why AI reminds me of cloud computing

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 Even if you stipulated that cloud computing was going to be a big deal, the early cloud narrative got a lot of things wrong.  To name just ...
Friday, February 23, 2024

The Sinking of the Itanic: free ebook

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Throughout my stint as an IT industry analyst during the 2000s, one of my significant interests was Intel's Itanium processor, a 64-bit ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

AI is looking summer-y

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  It never got to the point where the whispers about an impending AI winter got that commonplace, loud, or confident. However, as widespread...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Kubecon: From contributors to AI

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  I find that large industry shows like KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (henceforth referred to as just KubeCon for short) are often at least as us...