At Cloudscaling, we believe the future of IT platforms rests in the cloud. Predictions are always a gamble, but the following synthesis of insights from our interactions with customers, partners, analysts and our own prescient point of view, point the way to a compelling case for how cloud-enabled IT will...

[](/assets/media/2013/10/Randy-Bias-at-ccevent-chi-13.png) If crowd size and quality of audience participation are any indication, the [OpenStack](http://openstack.org) community in Chicago is keenly interested in the project, and they're actively engaged in learning more. Randy Bias and [Narayan Desai](http://www.linkedin.com/in/nldesai/) (Argonne National Laboratory and OpenStack pioneer) led an OpenStack boot...

[](/assets/media/2012/10/openstack-logo-small-transparent-2.png)Voting is now open for the OpenStack Summit fall 2013 in Hong Kong. Cloudscalers have submitted a variety of presentations, from Randy Bias’ popular “State of the Stack” overview of the project to technical deep dives on security, block storage, networking, SELinux and more. Below, we’ve summarized each...

Since the first quarter of this year, Cloudscaling has secured a number of new customers, including LivingSocial, EVault, Ubisoft and DataFort, launched a channel partner program and announced support for OpenStack Grizzly in the third generation of OCS technology, Open Cloud System 2.5.

Reposting is not something we do often, but this was too good to pass up. Jesse Robbins of Opscode gave an exceptional 20-minute keynote at [Cloud Connect](http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/santaclara/) last month. Check out [the video of his keynote on the Opscode blog](http://www.opscode.com/blog/2012/02/14/automate-all-the-things/). Also, the short video embedded below is a good summary about...

At Cloud Connect earlier this month, Randy Bias spoke with Paul Burns about open clouds, OpenStack, cloud-ready apps and cloud operators finding differentiation in higher layers of the stack rather than in the infrastructure. The [12-minute podcast](http://www.neovise.com/podcast-cloud-connect-2012-cloudscaling-open-cloud-computing) covers a lot of ground. Enjoy! (Note: Requires Flash.)

The week of February 13 is shaping up to be a milestone in the life of our company. There’s a lot going on, and we’d love for you to join us. **Monday, February 13** We’ve got a big announcement on tap related to the next stage of our growth as...

Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: 1. Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key 2. Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 3. AWS again shows that the web scale cloud model has distinct advantages over enterprise...

 Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and [Lew Tucker (Vice President and CTO, Cloud Computing at Cisco)](/assets/pdf/Lew_Tucker_Bio.pdf) delivered on the main...

On November 30, Randy Bias is headed to Redwood City to talk about the future of cloud at [VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2011](http://venturebeat.com/events/cloudbeat2011/). Joining him are folks like Allan Leinwand of Zynga, Amit Singh of Google, Thomas Kelly of Best Buy, Adam Selipsky of AWS, and Lew Moorman of Rackspace. There are...

Randy Bias gave an on-camera interview to Steve Levine of [TheCloudist TV](http://www.thecloudist.com/the-cloudist-tv/) at [Cloud Expo in Santa Clara](http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/) last week. Known for calling it like he sees it, Randy covers a lot of ground in just a few minutes: * "Cloud management" is a term that confuses the market. Smart...

Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias is in Dublin telling the world's largest telcos that web-scale cloud is the only way to be successful in the cloud Carriers have a huge opportunity in the cloud, but only if they embrace the disruption of web-scale cloud and adopt a two-cloud strategy in...