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Podcast – Jason Hoffman on Edge and Joyent Reflections

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Joining us this week is Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX, a startup “creating a global marketplace for organizations to deliver and drive the business of these edge enabled services and products.”

Highlights

  • Joyent – Cloud Computing’s Amiga
  • Technology for You vs Technology for Customer
  • How we Got Here and will Get to Edge
  • Anchoring Edge into Current Needs
  • Humans and Machines Integration – Computer Vision
  • Software and Hardware Support and Aging Issues in House
  • Mixed Reality solves Social issues of Smartphones
  • Reality of Physics in Building the Edge ~ Battery Life is Killer App
  • Network to Data Centric View Switch ~ Edge Data is the S3 of Cloud
  • Lack of Understanding in Early Web Infrastructure vs Email Understanding
  • Lack of Evolution in Hardware Provisioning – Evil Firmware
  • Horrible Parenting Advice

Topic Time (Minutes.Seconds)

Introduction 0.0 – 1.55

Quick History on Joyent 1.55 – 2.54

Is Edge too Early or Right on Time 2.44 – 5.04

How to Jump Start an Edge Market 5.04 – 8.32

Does Edge have its Simple Product Available? 8.32 – 11.13

Understating the Scale of Edge 11.13 – 14.16

Humans and Machines 14.16 – 20.20

Edge Ecosystems in the Home 20.20 – 30.07

Solve Problems with Today’s Tech 30.07 – 32.52

Is Network Everything? 32.52 – 34.27

Reflections on Amazon and Cloud for Edge Creation 34.27 – 39.57

Hardware Remains Stuck in the 80’s 39.57 – 43.19

Wrap Up 43.19 – END

Podcast Guest: Jason Hoffman, CEO MobiledgeX

Jason Hoffman is the Chairman and CEO of MobiledgeX, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary focused on edge computing. Previously he was a CTO at Ericsson AB and was P&L responsible for their cloud and datacenter infrastructure business. While at Ericsson his group created the world’s first hyperscale, disaggregated system and led the market in the modernization of telecom infrastructure. Prior to Ericsson, he was a founder and the CTO at Joyent (now owned by Samsung), a pioneering high performance cloud IaaS and software provider, where he ran product, engineering, operations and commercial management for a decade. Joyent launched the world’s first container-as-a-service offering in 2004, the most popular asynchronous runtime (node.js) in 2009, the most secure KVM-based VMs in 2009 and the world’s first serverless offering in 2013. He is considered to be one the pioneers of large scale cloud computing, in particular the use of container technologies, asynchronous, high concurrency runtimes and converged server, storage and networking systems. Jason is also an angel investor, strategy and execution advisor, venture and private equity advisor and has served on the boards of companies and foundations.

Jason has a BS and MS from UCLA and a PhD from UCSD. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and children.

VM != Cloud! Comparision draws ire, misses point

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Having the requirement benefit of working with both Dave McCrory and Joyent on a daily basis at Dell, I cannot resist weighing in on the blog pong between them.

Dave’s post comparing VM pricing prompted Joyent to blog that VMs are not the only measure of cloud.

While I completely agree that clouds are not all about VMs, I think that Joyent is too limited in their definition of cloud in their reply.  We’re seeing an emergence of services as the differentiator between clouds.

Looking at Amazon, Azure, and Google, the clear way to reduce cloud spend is to migrate applications to consume their services (SQL, Storage, Bus, etc).

If cloud users are primarily concerned about price per hour (which I’m not convinced is the case) then they have real motivation to migrate from purely VM (or SmartMachine(tm) ) based applications to ones that use services.

Dell goes to the Clouds (hardware & Joyent)

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As a Dell employee, I’ve had the privilege of being on the front lines of Dell’s cloud strategy.  Until today, I have not been able to post about the exciting offerings that we’ve been brewing.

Two related components have been occupying my days.  The first is the new cloud optimized hardware and the second is the agreement to offer private clouds using Joyent’s infrastructure. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be exploring some of the implications of these technologies.  I’ve already been exploring them in previous posts.

Cloud optimized hardware grew out of lesson learned in Dell’s custom mega-volume hardware business (that’s another story!).  This hardware is built for applications and data centers that embrace scale out designs.  These customers build applications that are so fault tolerant that they can focus on power, density, and cost optimizations instead of IT hardening.  It’s a different way of looking at the data center because they see the applications and the hardware as a whole system.

To me, that system view is the soul of cloud computing.

The Dell-Joyent relationship is a departure from the expected.  As a founder of Surgient, I’m no stranger to hypervisor private clouds; however, the Joyent takes a fundamentally different approach.  Riding on top of OpenSolaris’ paravirtualization, this cloud solution virtually eliminates the overhead and complexity that seem to be the default for other virtualization solutions.  I especially like Joyent’s application architectures and their persistent vision on how to build scale-out applications from the ground up.

To me, scale should be baked into the heart of cloud applications.

So when I look at Dell’s offings, I think we’ve captured the heart and soul of true cloud computing.