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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

Bifurcating Clouds

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Randy Bias

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged api, cio, cloud, enterprise, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, saas, scaling, standards, summary, vmware | 9 Comments

The ‘Cloud’ Is NOT Outsourcing

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Randy Bias

There was recently a small brouhaha on twitter regarding whether a ‘private’ or ‘internal’ cloud is really a ‘cloud’.  There was a very high level of chatter including a ton of the clouderati such as @jamesurquhart, @samcharrington, @boblozano, @jesserobbins, @ITKLcameron, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cio, cloud, definitions, enterprise, vmware | 29 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

Cloud-Based Scalability Testing

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Randy Bias

Today SOASTA announced their performance certification program for websites.  This is a pretty interesting development as far as I am concerned.  I’ve watched SOASTA from afar since their inception and I have always though it was a particularly clever use … Continue reading →

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Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Randy Bias

If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds).  Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloud futures series, enterprise, iaas, infrastructure, paas, predictions, saas | 2 Comments

Private Clouds Matter

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Randy Bias

Some folks think that there is no such thing as a ‘private’ cloud.  By definition all clouds are public.  Unfortunately, some times the confusion is around whether a cloud exists internally or externally rather than if it’s public or private. … Continue reading →

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