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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

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

Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Robert Cathey

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Arista, cloud, cloudscaling, infrastructure, Quanta, scaling, web-scale | Leave a comment

Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Joe Arnold

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloudscaling, faq, iaas, infrastructure, OpenStack, S3, Storage, Swift | 3 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

Conferences Past and Future: Cloud Frontier & Cloud Connect 2011

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloudscaling, conferences, iaas, presentations | 2 Comments

Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, conferences, grid, hadoop, hpc, hsc, iaas, infrastructure, performance, scalability, scaling | 7 Comments

@Cloudscaling CEO @randybias on #VMworld & #Interop 2010

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Automation, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, conferences, enterprise, infrastructure, scaling, vmware | 6 Comments

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 ← Older posts