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
Cloud Philosophy: An Interview with Randy Bias
I recently did an interview with Michael Coté of Redmonk. We’ve posted a PDF transcript of the audio interview on our website. It’s a lengthy conversation, so we thought we’d post a text version here, with key parts excerpted. Enjoy! Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, Cote, OpenStack, Randy Bias, Redmonk | 1 CommentCloudscaling on Cloud Networking and Arista
We don’t usually link to vendor material, but in this case, the material in question is a video with yours truly. Not only that, it’s not just any vendor, but Arista Networks, who have been an incredible change agent for … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Arista | 1 CommentPodcast w/ Blue Mountain Labs & Cloudscaling
Great podcast this morning with David Linthicum and Bill Russell of Blue Mountain Labs. Dave kept it lively and fast-paced as usual, so it won’t take you long to listen. We covered: The recent AWS outage Why you need two … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, Blue Mountain Labs, Linthicum | 2 CommentsOpenStack Design Summit 2011 – Schedule
There has been a little bit of confusion on the schedule for the upcoming OpenStack Design Summit. It is running Tuesday through Friday this week in Santa Clara. The complete schedule can be found at this link. You can register … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged conferences, OpenStack | Leave a commentSalesforce.com Shows Us Enterprise Clouds Will Fail
NOTE: This posting will make a lot more sense if you read my previous posting on Enterprise Cloud Myths. The success of Salesforce.com (SFDC) can teach us a lot about cloud and the emergence of new disruptive business models. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged SFDC | Leave a commentSupport Japanese Relief Efforts
Many of you have undoubtedly been watching the unfortunate events unfold in Japan post-earthquake. Many of the Cloudscaling team are sympathetic, both because many of us live here in earthquake-prone SF Bay Area and also because some of us were … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentAWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, audits, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, EC2, enterprise, predictions, Security, Storage, Virtualization | 1 CommentAWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Add new tag, aws, cio, cloudscaling, enterprise, infrastructure, Virtualization | Leave a commentCloud Connect 2011 & The Cloudscaling Keynote #ccevent
Cloud Connect 2011 – The Defining Event in Cloud Cloud Connect billed itself as the “Defining Event” in cloud computing this year and I have to say that it seemed to largely prove itself in this regard. It’s one of … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, Cisco, CloudConnect | 3 CommentsAmazon Web Services’ Rapid Release Cycle
Last year I asked: “Is Amazon Web Services Winning the Cloud Race?” And during the Cloud Connect 2011 keynote this week I made some assertions that AWS is indeed running away with the ball and backed it up with actual … Continue reading
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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.
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22
Open Storage Summit EMEA
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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.