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Debunking the “No Such Thing as A Private Cloud” Myth

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Randy Bias

Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon.  The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing.  Hence, the “cloud” … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, aws, centralization, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, private cloud | 20 Comments

Nicira & Citrix are Warming Up

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Randy Bias

Some exciting news on the open cloud front.  Nicira’s openvswitch (think: open source Cisco Nexus 1000V) made it in as the default vSwitch in the latest release of the Xen Cloud Platform.  For those who aren’t aware, the Xen Cloud … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, iaas, network virtualization, open cloud, openflow | 3 Comments

Cloudscaling on a Tear – 2009 in Review

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Randy Bias

We’re a little late in posting this due to the holidays, but I have some exciting stats to share with you.  In 2009 the Cloudscaling blog became one of the hottest destinations for cloud knowhow.  A big part of that … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloudscaling | 1 Comment

How Clouds Enable Global Reach

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Randy Bias

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, cloud, cloudscaling, elastic compute cloud, global reach, predictions | 5 Comments

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder’s Guide v1.0

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Randy Bias

Just in time for the New Year, we’re releasing a short 12 page whitepaper on building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.  This whitepaper is targeted at folks building public or private clouds who want to understand our general take on clouds, cloud … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, cloudscaling, iaas, infrastructure, scaling, vmware, whitepapers | 11 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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, audits, aws, cloud, elastic compute cloud, Security, whitepapers | 1 Comment

Why is Amazon’s SAS70 Audit Bogus?

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Randy Bias

At first glance it seems like Amazon’s recent announcement of a successful SAS70 audit is grounds for celebration[1]. Certainly it has met with fanfare on Twitter and blogs. Unfortunately, a SAS70 audit isn’t what most people think it is. Worse … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, audits, aws, cloud, sas70, Security | 23 Comments

On Second Thought…How Big Is AWS Really?

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Andy Schroepfer

We are trying something new at Cloudscaling and inviting a few of the more interesting cloud computing bloggers to provide some alternative viewpoints.  We thought we would start with Andy Schroepfer. His additional analysis of AWS revenue is thoughtful and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, aws, business modeling, cloud, elastic compute cloud, Rackspace | 5 Comments

State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Randy Bias

I recently gave a short, 5-minute ‘lightning talk’ at Cloud Camp in the Clouds.  This is the first ‘virtual’ (online) event for the Cloud Camp folks.  I want to particularly thank the organizers Reuven Cohen, Dave Nielsen, and Sam Charrington for allowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, enterprise, iaas, infrastructure, predictions, presentations, scaling | 5 Comments ← Older posts Newer posts →