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OpenStack: Swift Barn Raising

Posted on August 19, 2010 by andrew

At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged OpenStack, Swift | 2 Comments

Join Cloudscaling, the Power Behind the Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2010 by patsharp

Innovation and agile development—that’s how we build automated cloud infrastructure for leading global organizations. Our thought leaders and practitioners are building the best tools and processes to build cloud platforms, sharing our knowledge as we grow. We’re hiring the devops … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Agile development, Automation, aws, Big Data, cloud, cloudscaling, devops, Eucalyptus, hypervisors, iaas, jobs, Networking, OpenNebula, paas, Rackspace, Virtualization | 1 Comment

GoGrid Scalability Whitepaper

Posted on May 15, 2009 by su

Quick repost of the Scalability Whitepaper I wrote for GoGrid to make sure that my readers can find it easily.  It can sometimes be difficult to find on the GoGrid website, but I’m working on that as well.  ;) GoGrid … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged cloud, GoGrid, infrastructure, scaling, whitepapers | Leave a comment

GoGrid .NET SDK Updated

Posted on May 2, 2009 by su

Mitch Denny, a member of the GoGrid developer community, stepped up and took over maintenance of the GoGrid .NET SDK.  He’s just released a new version that updates to support the latest GoGrid API features including jobs and pagination.  You can also find Mitch on twitter. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged .net, api, Automation, cloud, GoGrid | Leave a comment

The “Open” Cloud is Coming

Posted on April 28, 2009 by su

The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started.  From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary.  This is a fundamentally misguided understanding. Where ever you … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged cloud, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, standards | 13 Comments

Deep Dive on VMware vCloud by Orran Krieger

Posted on April 26, 2009 by su

Discovered, by happenstance, an interesting presentation by VMware’s Orran Krieger on vCloud.  Really great information in here about VMware’s perspective on cloud computing, their cloud trajectory, and the vCloud architecture.  This looks like a recent undiscovered gem for folks trying … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Automation, cloud, infrastructure, Storage, Virtualization, vmware | 3 Comments

Cloud Application Architectures

Posted on April 24, 2009 by su

George Reese‘s new book, Cloud Application Architectures, is finally out.  I’m probably biased, but I think it’s pretty good as a handbook for building web applications on Amazon’s EC2. I contributed an appendix that describes GoGrid and it’s differences to EC2.  There … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged GoGrid | 2 Comments

Infrastructure in the Cloud Era

Posted on April 24, 2009 by su

Great deck from Ezra Zygmuntowicz of EngineYard and Adam Jacob of OpsCode giving a high level overview of how to manage infrastructure for clouds.  The mantra of “program your infrastructure” continues to gain momentum.  There isn’t going to be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Automation, cloud, infrastructure | Leave a comment

Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

Posted on April 13, 2009 by su

As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate.  Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else.  Some consider “cloud computing” to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged GoGrid, Networking, Storage, Systems, Virtualization | 7 Comments

Cloud Computing Is Green?

Posted on March 12, 2009 by su

Great time at the OpSource SaaS Summit 2009 today where I made the case that cloud computing is green by virtue of the efficiencies it drives.  I think you’ll find this an interesting presentation as some information on ServePath / … Continue reading →

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