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Simplicity Scales: An Alternative Approach to OpenStack Nova RPC Messaging

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Laying a Foundation

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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An Appliance Does Not Make Your Software Architecture AWS Compatible

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Citrix Joins Apache and Contributes CloudStack: Bold Move or Brash Decision?

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Open Communities Deserve Equitable Governance

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Opscode, Chef and Automation: Jesse Robbins Video

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Robert Cathey

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 last month. Check out the video of his keynote on the Opscode blog. … Continue reading →

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#ChefConf 2012 – Doing DevOps Right

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Clouds are complex, but simplicity scales; a winning strategy for cloud builders

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Randy Bias talks with Paul Burns of Neovise

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Robert Cathey

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 covers a lot … Continue reading →

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Architectures for open and scalable clouds #ccevent

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Randy Bias

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 →

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