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Big Changes Ahead

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Robert Cathey

Meet us Monday at the Carrier Cloud Forum at CloudConnect in Santa Clara for details.  Join us on Wednesday the 15th for the big celebration at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency. Check back on Monday for the full reveal.   … Continue reading →

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Is Open Compute Ready for Prime Time?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Randy Bias

I just returned from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in NYC. It was an eye opening experience. I thought I would share my take aways plus talk about what I perceive as a core issue: can the Open Compute … Continue reading →

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Support Japanese Relief Efforts

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Randy Bias

Many of you have undoubtedly been watching the unfortunate events unfold in Japan post-earthquake.  Many of the Cloudscaling team are sympathetic, both because many of us live here in earthquake-prone SF Bay Area and also because some of us were … Continue reading →

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IaaS ≠ Virtualization

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Randy Bias

Just a brief note to highlight a fairly obvious misconception, so please excuse if I am preaching to the choir. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is not virtualization-on-demand.  I realize that there is a certain amount of terminology hijacking by marketers, but when … Continue reading →

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Cloudscaling CEO Recent Quotes

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Randy Bias

Greetings and Happy New Year. Apologies that things have been silent around here. I can assure you the entire Cloudscaling team has been extremely busy. We have a bunch of great new content coming along for the blog that should … Continue reading →

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Getting Velocity – Economy of Motion

Posted on June 8, 2010 by andrew

Last time, I implied that scale alone doesn’t always lead to the operational efficiency in the datacenter There is no class someone can take that will teach them everything they need to know to run a datacenter, and the applications … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged devops, DevOpsDays, Internet Operations, Just Plain Cool, Structure, VelocityConf | 1 Comment

VMware’s vCloud API Forces Cloud Standards

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Randy Bias

We’re in the midst of a monumental transformation of the IT space, namely cloud computing, and the transformation is stalled.  Or, it was, until today when VMware released their vCloud API at VMworld under an extremely permissive license.  A FAQ … Continue reading →

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My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Randy Bias

Frequently new readers are curious about this blog. It helps when I periodically summarize the most popular blog postings. So, without further ado, here’s the top 5 posts in the first half of ’09. Be sure to also check out … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Administrivia, cloud, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, summary | 1 Comment

The Secret Sauce Problem

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Randy Bias

The vast majority of web applications have what I call The Secret Sauce Problem.  Every commercial web service of any kind needs to be differentiated in order to be interesting and attractive to customers.  There isn’t any kind of differentiation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Automation, batch processing, cloud, Cloud Applications, hadoop, N-tier, secret sauce | 2 Comments

Infrastructure as Code Presentations

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Randy Bias

If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ’09.  I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Automation, cloud, conferences, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, presentations | 1 Comment ← Older posts