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Sponsoring Gluecon

Posted on May 25, 2011 by andrew

I’m averaging over 10 tech conferences a year for the last few years. I believe there is an unmeasurable personal value that comes with participating in conferences that is hard to explain to someone who doesn’t already understand the value … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Company, Events | Tagged carbon offsets, Gluecon | Leave a comment

There is no half steppin’ in Cloud

Posted on April 5, 2011 by andrew

Randy Bias, Cloudscaling Co-Founder and CTO chats about cloud with Redmonk’s Michael Coté. Randy and Michael walk through the history and future of Cloudscaling, throwing out insights and musings along the way. Cloud market segments, rogue IT, Starving the Beast, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, Cote, Randy Bias, Redmonk | 1 Comment

Cloudbuilders At Arms

Posted on March 9, 2011 by andrew

The rising tide raises all boats. Today Rackspace announced a new OpenStack governance model and Cloudbuilders to provide commercial support and training for OpenStack. Rackspace Cloudbuilders gives the OpenStack ecosystem a formal center of gravity for organizations needing help to … Continue reading →

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Cloud CodeRetreat

Posted on September 23, 2010 by andrew

Cloudscaling and the great crew from Cloudkick want you to come sharpen your cloud coding skills Saturday, Nov 6th, 2010. Yes, it’s a Saturday. Yes, it’s pretty much all day. Yes, it will be fun. Bring a laptop and the willingness … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged CodeRetreat, Learning | 1 Comment

Getting Good Advice

Posted on September 17, 2010 by andrew

Cloudscaling has been hard at work building clouds, but not so hard that we don’t try to stop and listen. For anyone following the clouds space, these names probably don’t need an introduction, but sometimes it is nice to introduce … Continue reading →

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AWS Price Reductions Relentless

Posted on September 7, 2010 by andrew

Last week, amidst the din of VMWorld and people up in arms that OpenStack is implementing Rackspace’s APIs, Amazon’s Web Services Blog announced a significant price reduction on High-Memory Double Extra Large and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances. This reduction … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged AWS Trends, Price Reduction | 9 Comments

A Most Interesting Cloud Meetup

Posted on September 1, 2010 by andrew

Relax after VMWorld and come share Dos Equis with the OpenStackers. We’ll be discussing cloud, cloud, cloud and maybe dodgeball Thursday evening. 5PM-8PM Sept. 2nd @ Tres Agaves Restaurant 130 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 (Just a few blocks … Continue reading →

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Leaders in the Cloud: OpenStack

Posted on August 25, 2010 by andrew

“People don’t realize that lock-in actually occurs at the architectural level, not at the API- or hypervisor-level” Randy Bias discusses the impact of OpenStack on the cloud computing ecosystem with sandhill.com’s Kamesh Pemmaraju. Kamesh outlines the current state of cloud … Continue reading →

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OpenStack: Swift Barn Raising

Posted on August 19, 2010 by andrew

At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged OpenStack, Swift | 2 Comments

Getting Velocity – Economy of Motion

Posted on June 8, 2010 by andrew

Last time, I implied that scale alone doesn’t always lead to the operational efficiency in the datacenter There is no class someone can take that will teach them everything they need to know to run a datacenter, and the applications … Continue reading →

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