Long overdue, we’re pleased to announce the release of the next chapter of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Builder’s Guide. At the time we released the initial guide (December ‘09), there was very little information out there about building scalable and cost effective infrastructure clouds. In particular, the level of documentation at...

The OpenStack community got a shot in the arm reciently when news of Rackspace acquiring Anso Labs broke. The leading open source project in cloud computing stands to make big strides as a result of the combination. The folks at Anso Labs created Nova, the project that led to the...

Just a brief note to highlight a fairly obvious misconception, so please excuse if I am preaching to the choir. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is not virtualization-on-demand.  I realize that there is a certain amount of terminology hijacking by marketers, but when you say ‘IaaS’, I don’t think ‘virtual servers on demand’,...

As many of you know, we were exceptionally busy in 2010, building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds in South Korea.  This culminated in the launch of KT’s public cloud and the Cloud Frontier 2011 conference in early December.  I provided a keynote speech there that I thought was pretty good and brought...

Earlier this week, one of our clients, a Tier 1 ISP, launched an object storage cloud based on OpenStack, an open source compute and storage framework created by Rackspace and NASA. The new storage cloud is the first commercial OpenStack-based storage offering in the market after Rackspace itself, which is...

Greetings and Happy New Year. Apologies that things have been silent around here. I can assure you the entire Cloudscaling team has been extremely busy. We have a bunch of great new content coming along for the blog that should be interesting to discuss, particularly around public IaaS cloud growth...

Welcome to a new interview series we’re trying on at Cloudscaling. This series is meant to highlight not just cloud adoption stories, but stories about how businesses, particularly enterprise businesses, are changing the way they provide Information Technology (IT). As long time followers of the Cloudscaling blog know, our view...

It’s always nice when another piece of the puzzle comes into focus.  In this case, my time speaking at the first ever International Super Computer (ISC) Cloud Conference the week before last was well spent.  The conference was heavily attended by those out of the grid computing space and I...

In my keynote presentation (free registration required to download) on Day 1 of the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop NYC last week some interesting comments followed up in person and on twitter.  I think one particular notion that surprised people was the assertion that elasticity, a property commonly associated with ‘cloud’...

During my most recent trip I was speaking at both VMworld Europe 2010 and Interop NYC 2010 - Enterprise Cloud Summit. This update attempts to provide a candid look at some of the trends, thoughts, and insights that occurred to me while engaging with customers, vendors, and the greater cloud...