Category Archives: Cloud Computing

“Hybrid” Clouds are Half-Baked

February 2, 2010 – 09:49

It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any two kinds of clouds together.” In fact, that’s how NIST defines it in their cloud definition document [1]. The problem with this [...]

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Debunking the “No Such Thing as A Private Cloud” Myth

January 19, 2010 – 06:50

Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon.  The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing.  Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model.  Only large scale [...]

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Nicira & Citrix are Warming Up

January 18, 2010 – 16:58

Some exciting news on the open cloud front.  Nicira’s openvswitch (think: open source Cisco Nexus 1000V) made it in as the default vSwitch in the latest release of the Xen Cloud Platform.  For those who aren’t aware, the Xen Cloud Platform is an open source provider/cloud-focused management framework for clouds.  The website says:

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Cloudscaling on a Tear – 2009 in Review

January 15, 2010 – 10:16

We’re a little late in posting this due to the holidays, but I have some exciting stats to share with you.  In 2009 the Cloudscaling blog became one of the hottest destinations for cloud knowhow.  A big part of that success was our unique perspective on cloud computing.  We aren’t a news aggregation site.  Instead [...]

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How Clouds Enable Global Reach

December 19, 2009 – 12:46

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the notion of using clouds for global reach.
As you know, since then quite a bit has [...]

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