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Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Randy Bias

Our own Andrew Shafer, killed it today at the Velocity Conference.  His presentation is a must read for webops, devops, and those aspiring to build 100% uptime cloud services. It’s hard for folks to internalize how things are changing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloudscaling, conferences, scaling, uptime | 3 Comments

Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Randy Bias

A recent interview I did with Alex Bewley of Uptime Software is finally available. Although the podcast is nominally about cloud computing for mid-tier enterprises, we actually cover much broader ground. Alex’s blog posting lists the core topics as: what … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, enterprise, infrastructure, predictions, presentations, scaling | 2 Comments

More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO

Posted on May 19, 2010 by andrew

James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloudscaling, devops, Internet Operations, Total Cost of Ownership | 2 Comments

Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor

Posted on May 11, 2010 by patsharp

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2010 – Cloudscaling today announced that Lew Tucker, former CTO of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, has joined Cloudscaling’s advisory board.  Cloudscaling CEO, Randy Bias, expanded on what this means to the company, “If … Continue reading →

Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Randy Bias

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you haven’t watched his hour-long presentation, I suggest you do. I also recommend this … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Automation, aws, cloud, cloudscaling | 14 Comments

Join Cloudscaling, the Power Behind the Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2010 by patsharp

Innovation and agile development—that’s how we build automated cloud infrastructure for leading global organizations. Our thought leaders and practitioners are building the best tools and processes to build cloud platforms, sharing our knowledge as we grow. We’re hiring the devops … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Agile development, Automation, aws, Big Data, cloud, cloudscaling, devops, Eucalyptus, hypervisors, iaas, jobs, Networking, OpenNebula, paas, Rackspace, Virtualization | 1 Comment

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

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 ← Older posts Newer posts →