http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/secure/2014-11-05-dell-simplify-transform-cloud-experience

A few of the Pertino guys just came back from Austin after demoing Pertino at Dell World. You're probably wondering, doesn't Dell already have networking equipment in their portfolio (Sonicwall), so why partner with Pertino?

Cool story: Dell acquires Enstratius (web-based management tool for hosted instances). They start to think, where do we fit in in this whole cloud movement? We make hardware. They realize, hosting is a race to the bottom, and you have to continuously invest to differentiate yourself, so let's just make it easier for end users to transition. Thus we still sell hardware (hopefully to end users and data centers) and now we inject ourselves into the movement. Announcing: Dell Cloud Marketplace

The premise is simple. They create a platform that is somewhat like the Priceline (shop your provider) of hosting providers that abstracts all the intricacies of deploying (proprietary configurations, terminology). Let's make it super simple to manage and deploy, and give you one throat to choke. Makes a lot of sense.

Initial technology partners for the announcement: Docker (software dev and deployment), Delphix (data migration), and Pertino (secure networking)

The idea is this will take the fear out of deploying in hosted environments by removing the unknown, vendor lock-in, and distributed management and billing.

Do you think Dell will succeed in becoming relevant in the cloud conversation with this type of offering?

We test it with movies streaming off a Plex server. You should give it a go!

@JaredBusch I actually think we do still have some of those Beta shirts in a closet somewhere. I got a text from one of the SpiceHeads that took one of our shirts. He said that his wife was looking for a comfy shirt to wear and just happened to grab ours without reading it first. She walked in the room and he just started busting up laughing...makes it all worthwhile!

@Dashrender You could do it a few ways. Most just add themselves to the network and then from the Pertino system icon tray, you just select the network that you want to be connected to at that moment in time. It's pretty darn simple.

I was in a Spicecorps yesterday where I accidentally authenticated my device to the wrong network, so I just invited that user to the network that I wanted it to have access to, and then just clicked the icon and chose the right network. Voila, all my SQL apps, web servers, and file shares were then accessible.

@ajstringham This first tier just provides another tool for IT consultants to recommend depending on the environment. It also differentiates from traditional remote access tools. The whole goal is to get broader distribution for small businesses that we would have difficulty reaching and supporting. So we've made it as simple as possible to add this to your portfolio.

The next tiers will be much more comprehensive in terms of billing options, support structure, compensation, etc. This program allows you to literally just recommend and register and we'll take it from there or go full bore and run the PoC with your customer while we support your efforts. And of course, we want to pay out with cash vs. previous Amazon GCs

Hi everyone,

I know a few of you have already heard, but we just launched our formal partner program geared towards IT consultants that primarily server companies with under 250 users with project-based support and break/fix. This includes you "moonlighters"!

Here are the basics:
-Cash compensation for referral or client deployment
-Up to 20% first year revenues
-No obligations
-Sign up in just minutes

You can register here: https://pages.pertino.com/BlueSky-Affiliate-Registration.html

And ping me if you have any program or tech questions: [email protected] or 408-502-5451

Thanks again for all the great support!

@Carnival-Boy a little secret...iOS beta will be announced for October.
@JaredBusch Your explanation is perfect. Pricing is fine for small business today and your customers aren't using the apps so you don't want to pay for them. That's exactly what we're doing. Increasing pricing for businesses that consume apps.

When we launched the original pricing we were solving entirely different challenges than we are today. Anything "more advanced" required some creative minds (like SAM with the original AD integration). Now we're providing those for businesses that need them.

Hope that helps and looking forward to seeing you guys next week!

@josh owes all of you beers for not supporting CentOS 7 yet...

@ajstringham Hey AJ...good question and one we get frequently. We call this feature "grouping". It's essentially like creating a VLAN; one resource that can be accessible via multiple neworks, without exposing said networks to each other. This is a roadmapped item that is becoming increasingly important for our MSPs (program to be launched this month) and to enterprise customers.

Tom Ta (our Dir of IT) has run Pertino on vCenter, but with a Windows install and I think it was 5.0. I don't think you'll be able to install on a SUSE OS.

@Brains Isn't that part of the install?

Jared, AJ, and SAM are right on the money.

There are times when Pertino isn't recommended for specific environments, but we do see a lot of OpenVPN replacements (despite the increase in cost from free to a few bucks/device).

I just deployed a few systems in the UK for a very distributed not-for-profit and one for an eCommerce company that was conducting a complete network upgrade with 2003 to Server 2012. Pertino was a great choice there due to ease of deployment, management and end user experience.

Shoot me an email if you'd like to bounce your scenario off me. [email protected]

How'd it go?

I have a buddy in the UK that has a few performances cars (ie Porsche, Lambo, Range Rover), and his daily driver is the Abarth! That was pretty surprising to me...

Side note: It must be nice to have "company cars"

The YUM instructions didn't work here: https://pages.pertino.com/linux-installation.html

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I've only got Ubuntu boxes up right now, so I'm running apt

Gotcha - If you care to monitor the logs, my suggestion would be to just look for ERROR or FATAL not INFO

Hey SAM - Do you not want Pertino to conduct the pings? Or do you just not want to know about it?

SAM hit the nail on the head. We can secure the RDP sessions for you. The management console should make it easier to manage contractor sessions, especially compared to port-forwarding/opening for RDP or even traditional VPN.

If you haven't set up a Pertino network yet, definitely check it out. I'd want to make sure the topology matches what you had in mind. If you have any additional questions, you can get me at [email protected].

Thanks guys,

Josh

I just started using Amazon Workspaces for my Pertino demos. It is an awesome VDI solution so far. I think it's $35/month (we could probably do it internally for $20/month), but the machine is super quick and doesn't require much in terms of maintenance. My VirtualBox crashed every few days and sucked my 4GB ram dry.

@Hubtech No updates yet...still waiting on the customer. Sorry guys.