Author Archives: randybias

Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there have been two major camps: Amazon API and architecture compatible and VMware’s vCloud. [...]

Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

I’ve heard from a somewhat reliable source that Google is working on their Amazon EC2 competitor. Yes, some kind of on-demand virtual servers. I would have been the last person to guess that Google would take this direction[1], but you have to admit it makes a certain sense from their perspective. Consider:

Amazon’s [...]

Building A Commodity Cloud with EMC?

Just a quick post to note a recent blog post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) that discusses some of the issues related to using EMC for commodity clouds.  The posting hubs around a conversation I have been having with Chuck trying to understand the EMC product line better and seeing if there is a fit for [...]

Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations

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 Internet-land, but I think you’ll get closer through this presentation.  It’s not the same-old, same-old any [...]

Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market

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 kinds of businesses are using cloud
how you should go about evaluating it
how to avoid being outsourced [...]

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