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Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Randy Bias

Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Asymco, Automation, aws, cloud futures series, cloudscaling, commoditization, EC2, enterprise, iaas, infrastructure, OpenStack, predictions, scaling, vmware, web-scale | 17 Comments

AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Randy Bias

Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced.  Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, audits, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, EC2, enterprise, predictions, Security, Storage, Virtualization | 1 Comment

Cloud Innovators: Netflix Strategy Reflects Google Philosophy

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Randy Bias

Welcome to a new interview series we’re trying on at Cloudscaling. This series is meant to highlight not just cloud adoption stories, but stories about how businesses, particularly enterprise businesses, are changing the way they provide Information Technology (IT). As … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, EC2, netflix | 51 Comments

Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Randy Bias

It’s always nice when another piece of the puzzle comes into focus.  In this case, my time speaking at the first ever International Super Computer (ISC) Cloud Conference the week before last was well spent.  The conference was heavily attended … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, conferences, grid, hadoop, hpc, hsc, iaas, infrastructure, performance, scalability, scaling | 7 Comments

@Cloudscaling CEO @randybias on #VMworld & #Interop 2010

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Randy Bias

During my most recent trip I was speaking at both VMworld Europe 2010 and Interop NYC 2010 – Enterprise Cloud Summit. This update attempts to provide a candid look at some of the trends, thoughts, and insights that occurred to … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Automation, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, conferences, enterprise, infrastructure, scaling, vmware | 6 Comments

Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Randy Bias

This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, api, aws, cloud, Cloud Standards, cloudscaling, Community, Open Source, OpenStack | 24 Comments

Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Randy Bias

I’ve heard from a somewhat reliable source that Google is working on their Amazon EC2 competitor. Yes, some kind of on-demand virtual servers. I would have been the last person to guess that Google would take this direction[1], but you … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, EC2, google, google storage, rumor mill, S3 | 19 Comments

Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Randy Bias

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you haven’t watched his hour-long presentation, I suggest you do. I also recommend this … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Automation, aws, cloud, cloudscaling | 14 Comments

Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed

Posted on December 13, 2009 by Randy Bias

It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic.  For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, cloud, cloudscaling, databases, performance | 14 Comments

More on Amazon’s SAS70 Type II

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Randy Bias

Amazon hasn’t been forthcoming since my last post on their control and control objectives, which is disappointing, but expected.  I still believe that transparency here is more important than security through obscurity.  Hiding the controls and control objectives doesn’t provide … Continue reading →

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