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

AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Randy Bias

Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced.  Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, audits, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, EC2, enterprise, predictions, Security, Storage, Virtualization | 1 Comment

Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, enterprise, infrastructure, predictions, presentations, scaling | 2 Comments

Intellum Interview Series with Randy Bias on Cloud

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Randy Bias

I recently did a very long podcast and interview with Chip Ramsey, CEO of Intellum, on cloud computing.  Intellum is an up and comer in the e-learning space and are doing a new series of interviews with thought leaders in … Continue reading →

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How Clouds Enable Global Reach

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Randy Bias

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the … Continue reading →

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State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Randy Bias

I recently gave a short, 5-minute ‘lightning talk’ at Cloud Camp in the Clouds.  This is the first ‘virtual’ (online) event for the Cloud Camp folks.  I want to particularly thank the organizers Reuven Cohen, Dave Nielsen, and Sam Charrington for allowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Automation, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, decentralization, enterprise, iaas, infrastructure, predictions, presentations, scaling | 5 Comments

Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Randy Bias

If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds).  Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is … Continue reading →

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Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Randy Bias

Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space?  If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, … Continue reading →

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Cloud Futures Pt. 1: Service Clouds

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Randy Bias

With cloud computing rapidly accelerating it can be hard to see the road ahead.  I hope to help with this in my own way through this short four part series where I’ll outline how I think this is all going … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloud diagrams, cloud futures series, iaas, paas, predictions, saas, service clouds | 5 Comments