Tag Archives: cloudscaling
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
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
CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing
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
Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta
We spend a lot of time on stage at conferences talking about building web-scale clouds. This Friday, we’re partnering with Quanta and Arista to deliver a webinar for engineers and anyone else wanting to dig deeper into the details of architecture, … Continue reading
Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A
We get a lot of inquiries from clients, potential clients, friends of the family, and strangers, particularly about cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Recently, we had someone ask us a series of questions about OpenStack Storage (Swift). Given that the … Continue reading
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
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
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
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
Conferences Past and Future: Cloud Frontier & Cloud Connect 2011
As many of you know, we were exceptionally busy in 2010, building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds in South Korea. This culminated in the launch of KT’s public cloud and the Cloud Frontier 2011 conference in early December. I provided a keynote … Continue reading
Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?
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
@Cloudscaling CEO @randybias on #VMworld & #Interop 2010
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
Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?
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
