Tag Archives: infrastructure
Looking back, looking ahead: 200th Linthicum podcast
Bloggers who consistently provide clarity, useful information and opinions backed by knowledge can be hard to find in the cloud space. One who consistently delivers is Dave Linthicum. When he’s not writing for InfoWorld or blogging, he’s CTO of Blue … Continue reading
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
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
Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta
We spend a lot of time on stage at conferences talking about building web-scale clouds. This Friday, we’re partnering with Quanta and Arista to deliver a webinar for engineers and anyone else wanting to dig deeper into the details of architecture, … Continue reading
Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A
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
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading
Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?
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
@Cloudscaling CEO @randybias on #VMworld & #Interop 2010
During my most recent trip I was speaking at both VMworld Europe 2010 and Interop NYC 2010 – Enterprise Cloud Summit. This update attempts to provide a candid look at some of the trends, thoughts, and insights that occurred to … Continue reading
Building A Commodity Cloud with EMC?
Just a quick post to note a recent blog post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) that discusses some of the issues related to using EMC for commodity clouds. The posting hubs around a conversation I have been having with Chuck trying … Continue reading
Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market
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
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder’s Guide v1.0
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
