Rob Hirschfeld has been working in Cloud automation since 1999 where he co-founded one of the first IaaS companies. He is CEO of RackN: a company dedicated to commercial support OpenCrowbar, the bare metal DevOps platform. He is also a long serving OpenStack board member who is passionate about Agile/Lean process and scale data center automation.

Dockerhub (and alternatives) are more important than you realize. Package Repos 2.0
“Oh, Docker may be able to rule the commercial container ecosystem” That was the conclusion that Bernard Golden and I came to after discussing immutable infrastructure over breakfast the 24 Diner in ...

Four ways containers threaten VMware’s 10 year dominance
Can containers threaten VMware’s beachhead? Yes. Combined with an exploding ecosystem, they address the top use-cases and add something additional. I started working with VMware during its first ESX beta (nearly 15 ...