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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
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
A response to Geoffrey Moore: Manifest Disruption
Sometimes, when you see something sufficiently off-track, you need to respond, even when the person in question may be a personal hero of yours. Geoffrey Moore (yes *that* one), recently wrote an article about Cloud Computing that made me very … Continue reading
Presentation to OpenStack Los Angeles Meetup
(This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared at my personal blog, constructolution.) Last week I took a trip down to L.A. to attend the #OSLAX meetup and presented my talk on “Openstack IRL,” which seemed to be very well … 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
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
Clouds are complex, but simplicity scales; a winning strategy for cloud builders
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
