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

My Top 5 Cloud Posts in H1 2009

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Administrivia, cloud, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, summary | 1 Comment

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

Infrastructure as Code Presentations

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Randy Bias

If you’re into cloud and Internet/web operations this past few weeks saw several very important conferences, including Open Source Bridge, Velocity Conference, and Structure ’09.  I’m not going to review either of these since I wasn’t at Structure and only … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Automation, cloud, conferences, infrastructure, Internet Operations, open, presentations | 1 Comment

The “Open” Cloud is Coming

Posted on April 28, 2009 by su

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged cloud, GoGrid, infrastructure, open, standards | 13 Comments

Cloud Standardization Like Internet Standardization?

Posted on April 12, 2009 by su

One of my favorite and very opinionated folks is Benjamin Black.  He just posted a presentation he gave last year that mirrors some of my earlier thoughts about the parallels between the advent and standardization of Internet+TCP/IP and Cloud Computing. … Continue reading →

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