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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

Carriers Catching on to Commodity Cloud: David Bernstein Talks With Ian Scales

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Robert Cathey

Cloudscaling’s David Bernstein spent some time earlier this week with Ian Scales of Telecom TV while in London to speak at an IEEE event. In the short segment, David and Ian explore the five key points that carriers and large … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged aws, carrier, cloud, commoditization, iaas, OpenStack, scaling, telco, 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

IaaS Builder’s Guide – Network Edition

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Randy Bias

Long overdue, we’re pleased to announce the release of the next chapter of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Builder’s Guide. At the time we released the initial guide (December ‘09), there was very little information out there about building scalable and cost … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged iaas, resources | 1 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

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

Nicira & Citrix are Warming Up

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Randy Bias

Some exciting news on the open cloud front.  Nicira’s openvswitch (think: open source Cisco Nexus 1000V) made it in as the default vSwitch in the latest release of the Xen Cloud Platform.  For those who aren’t aware, the Xen Cloud … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, iaas, network virtualization, open cloud, openflow | 3 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