Cloud Computing
Cloud 2020 Summit: Perturbing the Punditocracy
Two independent analysts who have contributed an unvarnished voice of pragmatism to the cloud conversation are Ben Kepes of Diversity Limited and Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot. They’ve made a name for themselves in providing points of view that everyone might … Continue reading
Making Plans for OpenStack Summit
We’re three weeks away from the biggest gathering of OpenStack community members yet. Nearly 2,200 developers, users, investors, media and analysts will descend on the Oregon Convention Center for the OpenStack Summit April 15-18.Cloudscaling will be there in force, with … Continue reading
OpenStack DIY, Distributions and Systems
As you know, OpenStack is open source software for building private and public clouds. When Cloudscaling took Series A funding and pivoted to a pure product company in late 2011, it was a strategic move to use OpenStack as the … Continue reading
Simplicity Scales: The Cloudscaling Engineering Blog
Historically, we’ve kept quiet about the details of our approach to building software and architecting elastic cloud infrastructure, but that changes now. Our new blog‘s mission is to engage the OpenStack development community and non-OpenStack cloud architects everywhere in a … Continue reading
VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND TWO … FIGHT! — VMW Conceding Impotence?
Two and a half years ago I wrote about the inevitable throwdown between VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS), but recently VMware’s senior leadership appeared to outright admit defeat. The message to VMware’s partners was simple:“We want to own corporate … Continue reading
Turning Shadow IT Into Competitive Advantage
What if you could deploy public cloud capabilities behind the firewall and transform shadow IT from a governance headache into an IT innovation driver? That’s the subject of a webinar that Cloudscaling and RedMonk will deliver on March 7. Elastic cloud … Continue reading
Vote on OpenStack Summit Speaking Submissions
(Note: Deadline is Monday, February 25.)On April 15, a record crowd of as many as 2,500 people will descend on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for what will be the largest gathering of OpenStack developers, users, media and analysts … Continue reading
Cloudscaling OCS 2.0 – with Block Storage and Folsom Support – Now Shipping
This past week was an exciting one for the Cloudscaling team. While we already have customers deployed on our Essex-based OCS 1.x releases, we began our first Folsom-based OCS 2.0 customer deployments last month. As a refresher, Cloudscaling announced OCS … Continue reading
What can CIOs learn from Shadow IT?
(Check out Matt Asay’s piece in Read Write Cloud on shadow IT, referencing this post.)(Register now for our March 7, 2013 webinar on shadow IT.)There’s been a lot of discussion in the past few years on the issue of shadow … Continue reading
Deploying and Scaling Stackato Private PaaS on Open Cloud System
(This post submitted by Diane Mueller of ActiveState.)The logical step for an enterprise that has an elastic cloud up and running is to deploy applications. Following ActiveState’s recent Stackato Partner Program announcement with cloud infrastructure leader Cloudscaling, ActiveState’s Cloud Evangelists … Continue reading
