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Interview with David Gallo and Cassius Adams from SevenL Networks |
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<?xml version='1.0'?> |
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<!DOCTYPE news SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> |
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<news gentoo="yes" category="gentoo"> |
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<poster>quantumsummers</poster> |
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<date>2010-08-29</date> |
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<title>Interview with David Gallo and Cassius Adams from SevenL Networks, a |
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sponsor of Gentoo for 6 years running.</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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<b>1. Introduction: Who you are, and what is your role at SevenL Networks |
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Inc.?</b> |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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I will start off by introducing myself. My name is David Gallo (<uri |
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link="http://twitter.com/davidgallo">@DavidGallo</uri>), and I was born and |
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raised in Toronto, Canada. I have an athletic and musical background, ranging |
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from golfing to violin playing. My passion for technology has resided in me for |
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as long as I can remember. I have always been intrigued with the idea of using |
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technology to optimize the lives of people and organizations. I hold a strong |
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belief in customer service and personal relationships. At SevenL, we have very |
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little bureaucracy and we are not people of flash or title. At the company, I |
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"technically" hold a position as Managing Partner, but am currently practicing a |
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role in Business Development. In this position, I am in charge of the business |
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side of things, as well as providing the overall vision for the organization… |
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with the help of our team of course! =) |
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</p> |
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And I'm Cassius Adams, also born and raised in Toronto. I hold the positions of |
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Co-Founder & Senior Account Exec at SevenL. Like David, I strongly believe |
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in providing good customer service. I have always found that it helps me to |
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understand customers’ needs better, build better relationships with them, |
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negotiate win-win scenarios, and keep them happy as a customer overall. Ever |
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since my TRS-80, computers and technology have always been a major part of my |
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life, both for the purposes of work and play. |
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<fig link="/images/pr/sevenl.jpg"/> |
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Cassius Adams (left), and David Gallo (right) |
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<p> |
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<b>2.What is 7L (including founding, scale of operations, etc.)</b> |
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</p> |
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<b>David:</b> SevenL was originally established as LabattRacks.Net Managing |
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Services Inc. in 1999. The company owned the Data Center which is located at the |
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east side of Toronto, surrounded by 100 000 sqft. of industrial/commercial |
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office space. Daniel Gallo, the founding director, has an extensive background |
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in the Real Estate industry and has been a tremendous help and mentor over the |
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years. LabattRacks.Net leased the full data center floor to an ISP that was |
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eventually bought out. In the spring of 2003, the DC floor became vacant, and |
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SevenL was born with the help of Cassius Adams, Carey McLelland and Todd Berman. |
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Within a few months of inception, SevenL began donating dedicated servers to |
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Gentoo. |
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<p> |
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<b>Cassius:</b> SevenL provides <uri |
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link="https://www.sevenl.net/vps-hosting">VPS Hosting</uri>, <uri |
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link="https://www.sevenl.net/dedicated-server">Dedicated Servers</uri>, <uri |
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link="https://www.sevenl.net/managed-hosting">Managed Hosting</uri> solutions, |
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and <uri link="https://www.sevenl.net/colocation">Server Colocation</uri> space |
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to businesses and professionals. At the risk of sounding like a sales guy, our |
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affordable prices, network quality, and customer support, or "Relentless Support |
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™", are the largest factors contributing to our continually growing |
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worldwide customer base. |
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</p> |
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<b>3. What services do you provide for Gentoo?</b> |
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<b>David:</b> Currently we host condor.gentoo.org, corvid.gentoo.org, and |
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pigeon.gentoo.org. Gentoo is widely used on our network between internal servers |
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and client servers! Match made in heaven =) |
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<b>4. How do you use Gentoo in your environment?</b> |
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<b>David:</b> Gentoo is primarily used in a Server environment. The servers are |
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configured as Web/mail or as EDGE routers on test networks. Maintaining our |
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systems is primarily done by using Portage. Gentoo has been used on various |
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machines for many purposes within our organization. It has enabled us to test |
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several different branches of software, as well as mix software branches for |
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development and experimentation. Gentoo servers are pretty easy to maintain. |
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Once they are up and configured, emerge and portage can take care of a variety |
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of issues when and if they arise. |
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<b>5. Why choose Gentoo?</b> |
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<b>Cassius:</b> Actually, the choice of using Gentoo for our production servers |
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was initially by association. When SevenL first began we had a developer on |
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staff that contributed significant code to Gentoo Linux. It was his relationship |
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with the OS and the Gentoo Organization that lead us to use it internally and we |
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haven't looked back since! |
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Gentoo was chosen as an alternative to Slackware Linux. We liked the fact that |
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Gentoo had a package management system which allowed the user to update a series |
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of system/user packages in an automated fashion which even included compiling |
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missing dependencies. The advantage of using Gentoo over other flavors of Linux |
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is that it allows the user to only install/compile specific packages and |
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features specially configured for their architecture. Any issues encountered |
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were either solved by the experience of our team or by using the various Gentoo |
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forums and wiki’s. We find the support programs and irc channels very helpful. |
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<b>6. Any concluding remarks?</b> |
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<b>David:</b> Working with the Gentoo community has been such a positive |
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experience for SevenL. You guys know what the heck you’re doing (clearly), and |
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because of your allowance of our donations over the years, we have built up a |
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strong brand recognition being a Gentoo supporter and Gentoo dedicated hosting |
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company. We look forward to the ongoing relationship with Gentoo, and are |
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excited for the future. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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On behalf of the Gentoo Project and Foundation, we extend a <b>huge thanks</b> |
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to David and Cassius for taking the time to talk with us, and for the excellent |
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infrastructure support SevenL has provided Gentoo over the past several years. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</news> |
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