Author Archives: randybias
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
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
AWS Rebooting 100s or 1000s of EC2 Instances for Security Update
I was just informed anonymously about AWS scheduling reboots across hundreds or even thousands of AWS EC2 instances. This is to “receive some patch updates”. As some in the twitterverse have speculated, this is likely a security issue and most … Continue reading
How is AWS Failing to Service Webscale Applications?
I’ve made the argument on numerous occasions that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essentially the quintessential cloud computing offering, particular for infrastructure. To boil down my argument again, it’s essentially: Cloud computing is an entirely new model for IT This … Continue reading
AMZN ‘Other’ Revenue in 2011+
I had meant to put more content together around these numbers, but due to time constraints I won’t be able to. Regardless, the picture speaks for itself. Here’s my AMZN ‘Other’ revenue numbers with the blue bar representing my estimates … Continue reading
Cloudscaling Presentation Roundup for 2011
After the NIST presentation I gave last week in Washington, D.C., there were a large number of requests for the presentation itself. Rather than reply to all of the individual requests, I thought I would direct folks to the NIST … Continue reading