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

The Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Randy Bias

There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news.  One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers.  It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, databases, definitions, enterprise | 2 Comments

Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Randy Bias

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged centralization, cloud, commoditization, databases, decentralization, enterprise, hadoop, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, scaling, sharding | 5 Comments

Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Randy Bias

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Data, cloud, databases, hadoop, scaling, sharding | 6 Comments