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“Cloud Management”, CloudStack, and Other Musings

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Randy Bias gave an on-camera interview to Steve Levine of TheCloudist TV at Cloud Expo in Santa Clara last week. Known for calling it like he sees it, Randy covers a lot of ground in just a few minutes: “Cloud … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Cloud Expo, cloud management, cloudstack, OpenStack, paas | 1 Comment

AMZN ‘Other’ Revenue in 2011+

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Randy Bias

I had meant to put more content together around these numbers, but due to time constraints I won’t be able to.  Regardless, the picture speaks for itself.  Here’s my AMZN ‘Other’ revenue numbers with the blue bar representing my estimates … Continue reading →

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Cloudscaling Presentation Roundup for 2011

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Randy Bias

After the NIST presentation I gave last week in Washington, D.C., there were a large number of requests for the presentation itself.  Rather than reply to all of the individual requests, I thought I would direct folks to the NIST … Continue reading →

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Is Open Compute Ready for Prime Time?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Randy Bias

I just returned from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in NYC. It was an eye opening experience. I thought I would share my take aways plus talk about what I perceive as a core issue: can the Open Compute … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Robert Cathey

We spend a lot of time on stage at conferences talking about building web-scale clouds. This Friday, we’re partnering with Quanta and Arista to deliver a webinar for engineers and anyone else wanting to dig deeper into the details of architecture, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Arista, cloud, cloudscaling, infrastructure, Quanta, scaling, web-scale | Leave a comment

Carriers Catching on to Commodity Cloud: David Bernstein Talks With Ian Scales

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Cloudscaling’s David Bernstein spent some time earlier this week with Ian Scales of Telecom TV while in London to speak at an IEEE event. In the short segment, David and Ian explore the five key points that carriers and large … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, carrier, cloud, commoditization, iaas, OpenStack, scaling, telco, web-scale | Leave a comment

What is Amazon’s Secret for Success and Why is EC2 a Runaway Train?

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Randy Bias

We can all see it Amazon’s continued growth. The ‘Other’ line in their revenue reports is now the #1 area of growth for Amazon, even above consumer electronics. Their latest 10-Q reported 87% year-over-year growth, well over their consumer electronics business. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | 9 Comments

The Evolution of IT Towards Cloud Computing

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Randy Bias

I’ve talked about this idea many times and it’s been picked up and echoed by many in the mainstream media.  The idea is this: Cloud computing is a new paradigm for IT that displaces the current dominant paradigm, enterprise computing. … Continue reading →

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Private Cloud Choices

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Troy Angrignon

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of joining Dustin Fennell, CIO of Scottsdale (Ariz.) Community College, and Paul Roberts, Cloud Architect at Carpathia, on a panel coordinated and emceed by Morgan Gerhart at Citrix Synergy. The topic was  ”Is There … Continue reading →

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Sponsoring Gluecon

Posted on May 25, 2011 by andrew

I’m averaging over 10 tech conferences a year for the last few years. I believe there is an unmeasurable personal value that comes with participating in conferences that is hard to explain to someone who doesn’t already understand the value … Continue reading →

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