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Facebook’s new virtual meeting app is ‘great news’ and ‘validating’ for these Seattle entrepreneurs

GeekWire

Facebook today unveiled its vision for the future of work: a virtual reality experience called Horizon Workrooms that uses avatars and VR headsets to replicate in-person collaboration. “It will cause more people to experiment with virtual workspaces and consider using them as a key part of their remote or hybrid teams.”

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Docker for Smarties (e.g. non-dummies) from VMworld 2014

Storage IO Blog

Docker is a new way of abstracting applications and the data infrastructures (servers, storage, networking, hardware) they run on using containers. Check out this StorageIO Industry Trends Perspective video podcast to get an overview of docker including hearing from a docker.com systems engineer from VMworld 2014.

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IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of IDF 2014 session DATS002, titled “Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)” The speakers are Brian Johnson (Solutions Architect, Intel) and Jim Pinkerton (Windows Server Architect, Microsoft). IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2014 this week in San Francisco. Here’s a liveblog of the IDF 2014 day 1 keynote. I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Day 1 Keynote.

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Watch A New World Of Innovation Launch At O’Reilly Solid Conference 21-22 May 2014 in San Francisco

CTOvision

Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. Sebastopol, CA, February 26, 2014 —The “punctuated equilibrium” theory asserts that rapid bursts of change upend the leisurely pace of species stasis, creating events that result in new species and leave few fossils behind.

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IDF 2014 Day 2 Recap

Scott Lowe

Following on from my IDF 2014 Day 1 recap , here’s a quick recap of day 2. First, deliver more computing power in the hardware, either through the addition of FPGAs to existing CPUs or through the continued march of CPU power (via more cores or faster clock speeds or both). Overall, another solid day at IDF 2014.

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21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds

CTOvision

Here are details: Solid Heralds the Merging of the Physical and Virtual Worlds. Sebastopol, CA, February 26, 2014 —The “punctuated equilibrium” theory asserts that rapid bursts of change upend the leisurely pace of species stasis, creating events that result in new species and leave few fossils behind.