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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

Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, reboot, web-scale | Leave a comment

CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged aws, Cisco, CloudBeat, cloudscaling, google, iaas, Lew Tucker, Randy Bias, SLA | 2 Comments

Two Disruptions for the Price of One

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Robert Cathey

We stand at the beginning of a Cambrian explosion of new business models, driven by the colliding disruptions of cloud computing and mobile ecosystems. A conversation last week between Randy Bias and mobile analyst/Asymco founder Horace Dediu maps out how … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged 5by5, Asymco, aws, Cloud Applications, commodity, Horace Dediu | Leave a comment

Carriers Catching on to Commodity Cloud: David Bernstein Talks With Ian Scales

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Cloudscaling’s David Bernstein spent some time earlier this week with Ian Scales of Telecom TV while in London to speak at an IEEE event. In the short segment, David and Ian explore the five key points that carriers and large … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, carrier, cloud, commoditization, iaas, OpenStack, scaling, telco, web-scale | Leave a comment

Podcast w/ Blue Mountain Labs & Cloudscaling

Posted on April 29, 2011 by Randy Bias

Great podcast this morning with David Linthicum and Bill Russell of Blue Mountain Labs.  Dave kept it lively and fast-paced as usual, so it won’t take you long to listen. We covered: The recent AWS outage Why you need two … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, Blue Mountain Labs, Linthicum | 2 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

AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Randy Bias

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Add new tag, aws, cio, cloudscaling, enterprise, infrastructure, Virtualization | Leave a comment

Cloud Connect 2011 & The Cloudscaling Keynote #ccevent

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Randy Bias

Cloud Connect 2011 – The Defining Event in Cloud Cloud Connect billed itself as the “Defining Event” in cloud computing this year and I have to say that it seemed to largely prove itself in this regard.  It’s one of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, Cisco, CloudConnect | 3 Comments

Amazon Web Services’ Rapid Release Cycle

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Randy Bias

Last year I asked: “Is Amazon Web Services Winning the Cloud Race?” And during the Cloud Connect 2011 keynote this week I made some assertions that AWS is indeed running away with the ball and backed it up with actual … Continue reading →

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