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The Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Randy Bias

There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news.  One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers.  It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, databases, definitions, enterprise | 2 Comments

The ‘Cloud’ Is NOT Outsourcing

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Randy Bias

There was recently a small brouhaha on twitter regarding whether a ‘private’ or ‘internal’ cloud is really a ‘cloud’.  There was a very high level of chatter including a ton of the clouderati such as @jamesurquhart, @samcharrington, @boblozano, @jesserobbins, @ITKLcameron, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cio, cloud, definitions, enterprise, vmware | 29 Comments

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

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 →

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

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

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 →

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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

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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