Cloud Computing
Looking back, looking ahead: 200th Linthicum podcast
Bloggers who consistently provide clarity, useful information and opinions backed by knowledge can be hard to find in the cloud space. One who consistently delivers is Dave Linthicum. When he’s not writing for InfoWorld or blogging, he’s CTO of Blue … Continue reading
Lesson in simplified storage shows how complexity fails
(This post originally appeared at O’Reilly Radar.) The default approach to most complex problems is to engineer a complex solution. We see this in IT, generally, and in cloud computing specifically. Experience has taught us, however, that large-scale systems belie … Continue reading
Production Engineering and OpenStack
(A version of this post originally appeared at my personal blog.) On April 19th, I gave a brief presentation at the San Francisco Large Scale Production Engineering (LSPE) meetup group. The night’s topic was “Private Clouds.” I talked about an … Continue reading
Simplicity Scales: An Alternative Approach to OpenStack Nova RPC Messaging
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
Laying a Foundation
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
An Appliance Does Not Make Your Software Architecture AWS Compatible
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
Citrix Joins Apache and Contributes CloudStack: Bold Move or Brash Decision?
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
Open Communities Deserve Equitable Governance
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
Opscode, Chef and Automation: Jesse Robbins Video
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
#ChefConf 2012 – Doing DevOps Right
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
