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

Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

Posted on April 13, 2009 by su

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged GoGrid, Networking, Storage, Systems, Virtualization | 7 Comments

‘Operators’ and ‘Administrators’

Posted on November 29, 2008 by Randy Bias

Operating and administrating Internet infrastructure is not the same. For the uninitiated it may seem that ‘operators’ and ‘administrators’ (systems or network) are not different, but there is one important distinction: The primary job of an operator is “risk aversion”, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Networking, Security, Storage | Leave a comment

Cloud Hype, Cloud Boom, Cloud Bust

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Randy Bias

While there is still a lot of discussion about defining ‘cloud computing‘ there seems to be a general consensus that it’s a burgeoning market, which will, at some unknown point in the future, hit the requisite ‘bust’. This was my … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Networking | 2 Comments

neoTactics Networking Services

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Randy Bias

Just a quick blurb to mention that we recently released a one page brief on the networking services that neoTactics provides. You can get it here or from the services page.

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Network Diagramming Examples

Posted on March 2, 2008 by Randy Bias

I have a number of blog posts in the hopper, but we’ve also been growing quite a bit around here, so I’m afraid that they are all rather delayed. In the interests of keeping things alive, I thought I would … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services vs. Google

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Randy Bias

Dave Winer breaks it down on why AWS matters, asking why Google and Microsoft seem to be missing the boat. Of course, insiders are aware that Google is almost certainly going to launch MapReduce as a service, or similar, inside … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Networking, Virtualization | 1 Comment

Vblogatta: Virtualization, Open Source, VC, and More

Posted on July 31, 2007 by Randy Bias

Lots to report on various fronts soon, but thought I would point to a new blog that I discovered by Allan Leinwand, one of the partners at Panorama Capital. Some great posts on Vyatta, an open source IP router player. … Continue reading →

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