Tag Archives: GoGrid
Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor
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
Bifurcating Clouds
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
My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009
Frequently new readers are curious about this blog. It helps when I periodically summarize the most popular blog postings. So, without further ado, here’s the top 5 posts in the first half of ’09. Be sure to also check out … Continue reading
GoGrid Makes the Gartner Magic Quadrant
This slipped by me, but looks like GoGrid made the famous Gartner ‘magic quadrant’ for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud Infrastructure Services (On Demand).[1] You can see the quadrant here to the right. It’s great that GoGrid is listed in the visionary … Continue reading
My GoGrid Status
In the past few weeks, several opportunities (some almost too good to be true!) have been presented to me. I sat down with GoGrid’s CEO, John Keagy, to create a working relationship that would allow me to continue to support … Continue reading
GoGrid Scalability Whitepaper
Quick repost of the Scalability Whitepaper I wrote for GoGrid to make sure that my readers can find it easily. It can sometimes be difficult to find on the GoGrid website, but I’m working on that as well. ;) GoGrid … Continue reading
GoGrid .NET SDK Updated
Mitch Denny, a member of the GoGrid developer community, stepped up and took over maintenance of the GoGrid .NET SDK. He’s just released a new version that updates to support the latest GoGrid API features including jobs and pagination. You can also find Mitch on twitter. … Continue reading
The “Open” Cloud is Coming
The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started. From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary. This is a fundamentally misguided understanding. Where ever you … Continue reading
Cloud Application Architectures
George Reese‘s new book, Cloud Application Architectures, is finally out. I’m probably biased, but I think it’s pretty good as a handbook for building web applications on Amazon’s EC2. I contributed an appendix that describes GoGrid and it’s differences to EC2. There … Continue reading
Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?
As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate. Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else. Some consider “cloud computing” to … Continue reading
