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

Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor

Posted on May 11, 2010 by patsharp

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2010 – Cloudscaling today announced that Lew Tucker, former CTO of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, has joined Cloudscaling’s advisory board.  Cloudscaling CEO, Randy Bias, expanded on what this means to the company, “If … Continue reading →

VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Randy Bias

More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision.  Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter.  Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, api, aws, cloud, commoditization, enterprise, infrastructure, standards, vcloud, vmware | 32 Comments

Bifurcating Clouds

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Randy Bias

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged api, cio, cloud, enterprise, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, saas, scaling, standards, summary, vmware | 9 Comments

DNS-as-a-Service + Dynect Review

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Randy Bias

Domain Name Service (DNS) is a crucial part of the cloud infrastructure stack that is often overlooked. All Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers today deliver it in some form, from Amazon’s automated, but unconfigurable service to GoGrid’s manual, but highly configurable … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged api, Automation, cloud, DNS, scaling | 2 Comments

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 →

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