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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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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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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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Cloudscaling’s New Strategy: Open Cloud infrastructure

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Randy Bias

Over the past two years, I’ve talked at length about the emerging success gap between ‘enterprise cloud’ and the AWS model. In the past, I’ve asserted that these two different approaches to cloud service very different kinds of applications: legacy … Continue reading →

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CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged aws, Cisco, CloudBeat, cloudscaling, google, iaas, Lew Tucker, Randy Bias, SLA | 2 Comments

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 →

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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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Cloudharmony: KT’s cloud faster than Amazon, Rackspace

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Troy Angrignon

We commissioned CloudHarmony to benchmark the private cloud we built for KT (Korea’s largest landline operator and second largest mobile operator). KT’s Senior Vice President of the Cloud Services Business Unit, Mr. Jung-sik Suh, had a clear vision for this infrastructure … Continue reading →

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Randy Bias panel at #VMWorld2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Troy Angrignon

John Furrier interviewed the following members of the SF Cloud Computing Club today at VMWorld 2010 for an episode of SiliconAngle.tv‘s TheCube series. Rich Miller, Managing Director & Principal, Cumulati Bernard Golden, CEO, Hyperstratus Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling The link … Continue reading →

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