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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

Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Robert Cathey

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged Arista, cloud, cloudscaling, infrastructure, Quanta, scaling, web-scale | Leave a comment

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

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

@Cloudscaling CEO @randybias on #VMworld & #Interop 2010

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Randy Bias

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged amazon, Automation, aws, cloud, cloudscaling, commoditization, conferences, enterprise, infrastructure, scaling, vmware | 6 Comments

Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Randy Bias

Our own Andrew Shafer, killed it today at the Velocity Conference.  His presentation is a must read for webops, devops, and those aspiring to build 100% uptime cloud services. It’s hard for folks to internalize how things are changing in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloudscaling, conferences, scaling, uptime | 3 Comments

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

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

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

Subscription Modeling & Cloud Performance

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Randy Bias

An infrequently talked about, but very important aspect of cloud computing performance is ‘oversubscription’.  Oversubscribing is the act of selling more resources than you actually have to customers on the assumption that the average usage will be equal to or … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged business modeling, cloud, cloudscaling, hosting, monitoring, scaling | 9 Comments ← Older posts