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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

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

Cloud-Based Scalability Testing

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Randy Bias

Today SOASTA announced their performance certification program for websites.  This is a pretty interesting development as far as I am concerned.  I’ve watched SOASTA from afar since their inception and I have always though it was a particularly clever use … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloudscaling, enterprise, performance, scaling | 1 Comment

Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Randy Bias

What conversation about cloud computing is complete without a mention of big data, distributing processing, and distributed databases?  There is a recent trend away from relying exclusively on the traditional relational database for everything.  Newer technologies like BigTable and Hadoop … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Data, cloud, databases, hadoop, scaling, sharding | 6 Comments

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 →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged cloud, cloud futures series, iaas, infrastructure, paas, predictions, scaling | 3 Comments

DNS-as-a-Service + Dynect Review

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Randy Bias

Domain Name Service (DNS) is a crucial part of the cloud infrastructure stack that is often overlooked. All Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers today deliver it in some form, from Amazon’s automated, but unconfigurable service to GoGrid’s manual, but highly configurable … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged api, Automation, cloud, DNS, scaling | 2 Comments

GoGrid Scalability Whitepaper

Posted on May 15, 2009 by su

Quick repost of the Scalability Whitepaper I wrote for GoGrid to make sure that my readers can find it easily.  It can sometimes be difficult to find on the GoGrid website, but I’m working on that as well.  ;) GoGrid … Continue reading →

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