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A friend pointed me at a new bittorrent lab project, Sync. While it took me a few minutes to wrap my head around what was going on and how this is being used, I’d have to say I’m impressed.

The concept is simple, using a local client on your desktop or laptop Sync will synchronize the contents of the selected folder to other remote Sync clients sharing the same key. Synchronization is done securely via an encrypted (AES) bittorrent session. This ends up being effective for moving a lot of data across multiple devices and while I think it was initially designed for secure private dropbox style replication, I’ve been testing this as an alternative method of geo-replication between glusterfs clusters on Fedora.
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I just wrapped up my presentation at the Gluster Workshop at CERN where I discussed Open Source advantages in tackling converged infrastructure challenges. Here is my slidedeck. Just a quick heads up, there’s some animation that’s lost in the pdf export as well as color commentary during almost every slide.

During the presentation I demo’ed out the new QEMU/GlusterFS native integration leveraging libgfapi. For those of you wondering what that means, in short, there’s no need for FUSE anymore and QEMU leverages GlusterFS natively on the back end. Awesome.

So for my demo I needed two boxes running QEMU/KVM/GlusterFS. This would provide the compute and storage hypervisor layers. As I only have a single laptop to tour Europe with, I obviously needed a nested KVM environment.
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This started as a response to a twitter conversation with @DuncanYB and @joshobrien77  re: converged infrastructure. Duncan recently posted a great blog post about Converged compute and storage. Go read that first. I’ll wait here.

Welcome back! Ok, to start I agree with Duncan’s comments that Nutanix is certainly in the leader group for what’s viewed today as “Converged Infrastructure”, in that it’s delivering a whole stack solution. The other company mentioned in Duncan’s blogpost is Simplivity. Both companies are doing awesome stuff, and have figured out ways to solve REALLY complex problems.

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Dell has recently kicked off #ProjectSputnik, a beta program to deliver a Linux based laptop to developers featuring a tweaked out version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for a Dell XPS laptop with all the drivers ready to go.

Most intriguing was the idea that additional tools for devs specifically cloud tools that enable you to create “microclouds” on your laptop, simulating an at-scale environment, and then deploy that environment seamlessly to the cloud would be provided. Now, I get this is some of the work around Ubuntu juju, but I haven’t had a chance to dig in. I was hooked.
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