Category Archives: Cloud Computing

More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO

May 19, 2010 – 10:00

James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it now. You should probably also go through Randy’s follow up, and then watch James talk again… [...]

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Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor

May 11, 2010 – 08:01

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2010 – Cloudscaling today announced that Lew Tucker, former CTO of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, has joined Cloudscaling’s advisory board.  Cloudscaling CEO, Randy Bias, expanded on what this means to the company, “If you look at Lew’s history, you will see that he is a true visionary and [...]

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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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Join Cloudscaling, the Power Behind the Cloud

April 23, 2010 – 01:00

Innovation and agile development—that’s how we build automated cloud infrastructure for leading global organizations. Our thought leaders and practitioners are building the best tools and processes to build cloud platforms, sharing our knowledge as we grow.
We’re hiring the devops dream team. Cloudscalers have built major IaaS, PaaS and SaaS systems. We need Senior Developers and [...]

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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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