Randy Bias
Co-Founder and CTO
His provocative views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the most influential voices in the industry. Randy uses this influence to advocate an open and honest debate about which technologies will win in driving clouds to large-scale adoption. He has inspired organizations and individuals to embrace the disruption of cloud computing to transform business processes and position themselves to succeed in a new world where computing resources are ubiquitous, inexpensive, instantly scalable, and highly available.
Since 1990, Randy has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, operations, and 24×7 service delivery. He was the technical visionary at GoGrid and built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks. He led the open-licensing of GoGrid's API, which inspired Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, VMware and others to open-license their cloud APIs.
Randy's voice can be heard through the Cloudscaling blog (link), which has tens of thousands of page views monthly. Randy is recognized by The Next Web as one of the 25 Most Influential People Tweeting About Cloud. He is frequently interviewed in the trade and business media on cloud computing, and he speaks at dozens of industry events annually.
Posts by Randy
Simplicity Scales: An Alternative Approach to OpenStack Nova RPC Messaging
Earlier this week, Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) of Cloudscaling presented an alternative mechanism for OpenStack Compute (Nova) RPC. For those who are new to OpenStack or simply haven’t had time to delve into it’s innards, Nova uses a core asynchronous RPC/messaging … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | 2 CommentsLaying a Foundation
When we first began supporting the OpenStack project, we saw in it something that other open source cloud software projects did not have. OpenStack offered a path forward for companies that wanted to launch open cloud infrastructures in the model … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged OpenStack | 2 CommentsAn Appliance Does Not Make Your Software Architecture AWS Compatible
On Saturday morning, an article I wrote went out on GigaOm entitled “True or false: Citrix is more compatible with AWS.” Reactions were generally very positive, with only a a small minority reaction, mostly from Citrix or Citrix fans. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | 4 CommentsCitrix Joins Apache and Contributes CloudStack: Bold Move or Brash Decision?
UPDATED: link added to actual Citrix announcement; clarification re: story sources added at end; clarification of “contributor community” in 8th paragraph. As I write this, Citrix is preparing a big announcement tomorrow. The details are sketchy, but apparently they are … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | 15 CommentsOpen Communities Deserve Equitable Governance
UPDATED: to provide clarity on key sections and fix poor wording choices I applaud Joshua McKenty’s recent Open Letter. Cloudscaling has had similar concerns about the OpenStack Foundation governance model. We participated in a variety of discussions including the recent governance … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | 2 Comments#ChefConf 2012 – Doing DevOps Right
Automation is one of the more tricky disciplines. If it were as easy as it looks, then we would have had cloud years ago. In recent years the DevOps movement as striven to take automation to the next level. One … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Leave a commentClouds are complex, but simplicity scales; a winning strategy for cloud builders
All cloud systems are inherently complex, and complexity is inherently evil. You can’t avoid complexity, since the size and scale that drives efficiency also adds complexity. However, you can choose how complex to make your basic system. A winning strategy … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | 3 CommentsArchitectures for open and scalable clouds #ccevent
Below is the presentation I gave at this year’s 2012 Cloud Connect in Santa Clara. It was extremely well received. Better than I expected really, given it’s last minute nature. For some, I think a lot of the architectural and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Leave a commentOpen, Cloud, Confusion
This weeks’ re-launch of Cloudscaling was amazing. It was all we could have expected and more. My only regret was not being able to walk the halls at Cloud Connect as much as I would have liked, but I think … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Leave a commentCloudscaling’s New Strategy: Open Cloud infrastructure
Over the past two years, I’ve talked at length about the emerging success gap between ‘enterprise cloud’ and the AWS model. In the past, I’ve asserted that these two different approaches to cloud service very different kinds of applications: legacy … Continue reading
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May
21
OSBC
Hyatt Regency San Francisco
San Francisco CA
The 2012 Computerworld Open Source Business Conference will once again present current ideas and implementation case studies bringing open source technologies to broad application. Cloudscaling's Troy Angrignon will present a session on the lessons that market leaders like AWS have to teach, and how those concepts can be applied in open frameworks.
May
22
Open Storage Summit EMEA
Mercure Hotel Amsterdam Aan de Amstel
1096 CJ Amsterdam
This year's Nexenta EMEA gathering will feature in-depth technical tutorials on OpenStorage. Our talk is titled, "Clouds are Complex, But Simplicity Scales." Join us in Amsterdam May 22-24.