We commissioned CloudHarmony to benchmark the private cloud we built for KT (Korea’s largest landline operator and second largest mobile operator). KT’s Senior Vice President of the Cloud Services Business Unit, Mr. Jung-sik Suh, had a clear vision for this infrastructure cloud. His intention was to build ‘at scale’ like Amazon...

I’m off on a whirl-wind speaking tour this October.  Would be great to meet more cloud folks and I would definitely appreciate your support at these venues.  If you want to connect, please reach out via Twitter, LinkedIn, or TripIt. Here’s my list of upcoming speaking engagements this month: Panel...

The Cloudscaling team is proud to announce that KT (Korea’s largest landline operator and second largest mobile operator) has officially launched Korea’s first large-scale private cloud. Back in August, KT announced their intention to launch a complete set of cloud services to address the explosion of data emerging from the...

Last week, amidst the din of VMWorld and people up in arms that OpenStack is implementing Rackspace’s APIs, Amazon’s Web Services Blog announced a significant price reduction on High-Memory Double Extra Large and High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large instances. This reduction is indicative of Amazon’s efforts to drive down cost (and...

John Furrier interviewed the following members of the SF Cloud Computing Club today at VMWorld 2010 for an episode of SiliconAngle.tv’s TheCube series. Rich Miller, Managing Director & Principal, Cumulati Bernard Golden, CEO, Hyperstratus Randy Bias, CEO, Cloudscaling The link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiNL7bmsts The video clip is below: Watch live...

“People don’t realize that lock-in actually occurs at the architectural level, not at the API- or hypervisor-level” Randy Bias discusses the impact of OpenStack on the cloud computing ecosystem with sandhill.com’s Kamesh Pemmaraju. Kamesh outlines the current state of cloud adoption, OpenStack and looks ahead.

At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building infrastructure as a service, and Swift is a subproject which...

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...

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...

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...