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Scalable Web Site Resources

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Randy Bias

In doing some research for a new GoGrid whitepaper I needed a list of references and resources for folks to get more information on building scalable web applications and infrastructure.  Reached out to my twitter network and got a lot … Continue reading →

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GoGrid Quietly Releases Larger Servers

Posted on February 12, 2009 by Randy Bias

We quietly released 4 & 8GB servers today.  There will be a press release early next week.  Readers of my blog get this early tidbit.  ;) The release includes 4GB 64-bit servers with 3 CPU cores for Linux and Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged GoGrid, Virtualization | 1 Comment

EngineYard uses Chef, a Puppet Alternative

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Randy Bias

Last week two pretty interesting things happened in cloud land. The first was the release by Opscode of Chef a new open source alternative to Puppet. Both are terrific tools for configuration management setting the bar progressively higher in an … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Automation | 3 Comments

Challenges for Cloud Storage

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Randy Bias

I had a great time presenting on the challenges for cloud storage today at the SNIA Winter Symposium ’09 event. It was my first GoGrid-related presentation and it went very well. A very technical audience though, so there is actually … Continue reading →

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GoGrid Opens Up API Specification

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Randy Bias

More fantastic news besides the inauguration of Barack Obama this morning? Hard to believe, but yes. Today GoGrid allows all of it’s competitors to copy it’s API by open licensing it’s API specification! Read more in the press release. Tidbit: … Continue reading →

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Hyperic Clued on Cloud Monitoring

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Randy Bias

I was very impressed to learn yesterday that Hyperic has implemented jcollectd, a native Java implementation of collectd and the collectd protocol. They have released jcollectd as open sourced under the GPL. This means you can now easily instrument your … Continue reading →

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Pre-release CLI Utility for GoGrid

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Randy Bias

Looking for volunteers to help evaluate & give feedback on pre-release GoGrid CLI tool that talks to the GoGrid API. This is BETA code, but stable & functional. Send an e-mail to randyb {#} gogrid.com. I’ll send you instructions and … Continue reading →

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VM Image Sprawl in Real Life

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Randy Bias

A while back, Geva Perry and I were chatting about the issue of virtual machine image sprawl (Google Search), which is really little more than an extension of not-so-new traditional physical server sprawl problem. It’s hard to get really hard … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Virtualization | 4 Comments

What I did in 2008

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Randy Bias

Greetings. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday. This is my last post of 2008 and I wanted to recap the year. This is the first time I’ve attempted this, so hope you’ll bear with me. This is not … Continue reading →

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Top Posts in 2008

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Randy Bias

Following is a list of my top 5 most read articles in 2008. Most, but not all, are cloud computing related. Storage, Storage, Storage Short-Sighted about Cloud Computing What Happened to Vertebra? Cloud Values Amazon Competes Against RightScale And a … Continue reading →

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