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Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale

May 4, 2010 – 07:03

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you haven’t watched his hour-long presentation, I suggest you do. I also recommend this excellent response from James Urquhart.  My goal in this posting is [...]

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Is Amazon Winning the Cloud Race?

March 30, 2010 – 08:00

From our perspective, it looks like Amazon is winning the cloud race.   Amazon and Google pioneered the notion of ‘devops‘, where agile practices are applied to merging the disciplines of development and operations.  Devops teams are inherent to cloud computing.  They are the only way to scale and compete.
For example, in my conversations with [...]

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Intellum Interview Series with Randy Bias on Cloud

March 1, 2010 – 08:00

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 different spaces.  They started with Karl Kapp on e-learning and I’m honored that they tapped [...]

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Cloud Migrations Track @Cloud_Connect 2010

February 10, 2010 – 20:23

I wanted to follow up from yesterday’s post on the upcoming Cloud Connect event.  In particular, I want to talk a bit about the track I’m leading: Cloud Migrations.  The focus of the track is to talk about:

How to adopt cloud now
Choosing between clouds: internal, external, or both?
Real world example use cases
Understanding how clouds are built [...]

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CloudConnect 2010

February 9, 2010 – 11:25

If you’re not aware of it, CloudConnect 2010 is coming up on March 15-18th in Santa Clara, CA.  Our team is running the Cloud Migrations track and a special breakout session on building Private Clouds.  We managed to get some really great panelists for the Migrations track and we’re going to move from talking about [...]

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