Dell revealed that it will deliver a new developer-focused, Ubuntu-powered laptop as part of its Project Sputnik in the fall. Dell announced this and other open-source moves at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2012 (OSCON).
PORTLAND, Ore. Dell has announced the
expansion of three open-source software and cloud computing initiatives: the
formalization of
Project
Sputnik resulting in a Dell product in the fall, its
Dells Emerging Solutions Ecosystem to include Pentaho
and Datameer, and enhancements to Dells OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution and
the Dell Cloudera solution.
Dell officially launched Project Sputnik,
which was initially designed as a six-month exploratory pilot to create an
Ubuntu-based developer laptop. However, Dell is taking Project Sputnik from
pilot to product this fall. At that time, the company plans to deliver an
official developer laptop based on the Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu 12.04LTS
preloaded, available in select geographies.
Made possible by an internal innovation fund,
the system will offer developers a complete client-to-cloud solution. The
included software will allow developers to create microclouds on their
laptops, simulating a proper, at-scale environment, and then deploy that
environment seamlessly to the cloud.
Dell announced the official launch of Project
Sputnik and its product plans at the OReilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
2012 here. In an OSCON keynote, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, maker
of Ubuntu, said, Dell is going to start preinstalling Ubuntu in the American
market on developer notebooks as part of Project Sputnik.
Project Sputnik is a great example of the employee-driven
innovation we built Dells incubation program to enable, said
Nnamdi Orakwue, executive sponsor of the Dell incubation
program and executive assistant to Michael Dell, in a statement. This project
represents the first of many new ideas Dell employees will test with customers
or partners through the program, and we look forward to supporting Sputnik to
be successful as it becomes a product this fall.
Since we announced project Sputnik a little
over two months ago, we have continued to be amazed by the amount and quality
of interest and input we have received, said Barton George, Project Sputnik
lead and director Dells Web vertical marketing, in a statement. By listening
to developers, Dell can provide them with solutions and products to help make
them more productive and allow for greater innovation.
We realized there was a gap in the developer
laptop market, Joseph George, director of product strategy for Cloud Solutions
at Dell, told eWEEK at OSCON. The developer community is looking for a laptop
that fits their needs. Its a thin, light laptop that gives them everything
they need.
Meanwhile, as a new member of Dells Emerging
Solutions Ecosystem,
Datameer has
completed Dells certification process. In a
single application, Datameer enables business users,
analysts and data scientists to integrate, analyze and visualize all of their
data, regardless of its source, whether its big or small, structured or
unstructured. Dell is offering Datameer in conjunction with its Apache Hadoop
solutions.
Pentaho joined the Dell Emerging Solutions Ecosystem
with its
Business Analytics Solution, which couples data integration
with business analytics to easily access, integrate, visualize, explore and
mine business data. Pentaho leverages a graphical extract, transform and load
(ETL) environment for creating and managing Hadoop MapReduce jobs and in the
same integrated environment allows users to start exploring their structured
and unstructured data.
With our partner programs, we can meet
customers where they are, said John Igoe, executive director, Dell open-source
Cloud and Big Data Solutions, in a statement. For those with in-house
developer expertise or who need to enable business users to perform big data
analytics, Emerging Solutions Ecosystem partners can help quickly fill gaps in
their cloud or big data taxonomy. These cloud and big data solutions are key to
the future of IT, so Dell is committed to bringing these and future
technologies to enable customers to quickly and cost effectively stand up
OpenStack cloud or Hadoop clusters.
To help customers build cloud infrastructure,
Dells
OpenStack-Powered
Cloud Solution is now available with additional server, networking and
services options, and in additional regions, including the United Kingdom,
Germany and China. Along with
OpenStack
Essex, customers can buy with Dell 12th generation PowerEdge servers,
including the R720, R720XD or PowerEdge C servers; PowerConnect or Force10
switches; services from Dell, Canonical or Mirantis.
To quickly stand up a big data cluster,
the
Dell Cloudera
Solution is now available with additional server, networking and
services options, and in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the
Netherlands. Along with
CDH4, customers can buy this solution with Dell 12
th generation
PowerEdge servers, including the R720, R720XD or PowerEdge C servers;
PowerConnect or Force10 switches; services from Dell and Canonical.
Dell SecureWorks recently leveraged this
solution, which includes Clouderas distribution of Apache Hadoop running on
optimized Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers, and delivered with joint service and
support along with the
Dell
Crowbar software framework, a Dell-developed installer to speed and ease
bare-metal deployments. These combined resources helped SecureWorks accelerate
the deployment of a robust Hadoop environment by more than six months, and
helped to slash the organizations storage-per-gigabyte costs from $17 to 23
cents, Dells Joseph George said.
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