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[Disclosure - My employer is EMC]A few weeks ago, my good friend Nick Weaver (@lynxbat) released "Project Razor" in conjunction with EMC and Puppet Labs. It's a framework to simplify the deployment and automation of bare-metal or virtualized server environments, bringing more of the stack into a DevOps models. While I'm biased and think the code is pretty awesome, the more interesting aspect is that a major hardware company (EMC) was part of an open-source project.
As Dan Hushon (Distinguished Engineer, EMC) stated during our podcast prior to the release, this isn't the first time EMC has contributed to an open-source effort (he mentioned contributions to NFS), but it is the first time they've given so broadly to an open-community and with a partner like Puppet Labs.
This isn't about EMC, but rather hardware vendors (in general) trying to adapt to a changing world where software is driving more and more value. Let's take a look at three different (recent) approaches taken by traditional hardware vendors are they engage around software-centric projects.
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An 18 year technology veteran, Brian Gracely is Director of Global Solutions at EMC. He holds CCIE #3077 and an MBA from Wake Forest University.
Throughout his career Brian has led Cisco, NetApp and EMC into emerging markets and through technology transitions. An active participant in the virtualization and cloud computing communities, his industry viewpoints and writing can also be found on Twitter @bgracely, on his blog Clouds of Change and his podcast The Cloudcast (.net). He is a VMware vExpert and was named a "Top 100" Cloud Computing blogger by Cloud Computing Journal.
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