GoGrid Opens Up API Specification
Posted on Jan 20, 2009 by Randy Bias
More fantastic news besides the inauguration of Barack Obama this morning? Hard to believe, but yes. Today GoGrid allows all of it’s competitors to copy it’s API by open licensing it’s API specification! Read more in the press release. Tidbit: The source code for the new cloudcontrol command line utility...
VM Image Sprawl in Real Life
Posted on Jan 2, 2009 by Randy Bias
A while back, Geva Perry and I were chatting about the issue of virtual machine image sprawl (Google Search), which is really little more than an extension of not-so-new traditional physical server sprawl problem. It’s hard to get really hard data on how bad the vm sprawl problem is since...
What I did in 2008
Posted on Dec 29, 2008 by Randy Bias
Greetings. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday. This is my last post of 2008 and I wanted to recap the year. This is the first time I’ve attempted this, so hope you’ll bear with me. This is not the typical 2009 predictions. I already gave at the office...
Followup on Vertebra Posting
Posted on Dec 19, 2008 by Randy Bias
Earlier I posted asking What Happened to Vertebra?, the sysadmin cloud management tool that EngineYard had promised for ‘end of summer’. Pleased to see that the EY folks soft released an early BETA of the code today. You can see more at their github repo. To be fair, this is...
Virtualization is not ‘The Answer’ for Clouds
Posted on Dec 17, 2008 by Randy Bias
There is a myth going around about virtualization and cloud computing. It’s expressed in a variety of ways, but the takeaway is always the same: “Public clouds are big virtual server clouds.” Sounds good, but untrue once you look under the covers. For good reason, since virtualization isn’t a panacea....
Must Read on “The” Cloud
Posted on Dec 17, 2008 by Randy Bias
I don’t often post simple links or even lists of interesting links. I prefer to try and provide more infrequent, but original content. I’m going to make an exception today because I want to point you to a really fantastic article by MasterMark: The Enterprise Cloud Fair warning, this is...
Cloud-Oriented Architectures Coming of Age?
Posted on Dec 8, 2008 by Randy Bias
Cloud-Oriented Architectures (COA) mentioned briefly before by me look to be coming of age with this latest announcement from Force.com and Google App Engine.
Hopefully this will help get the message across. Building your entire application stack is soooo 1999…
ZFS to go GPL?
Posted on Dec 6, 2008 by Randy Bias
Word on the street is that Sun is exploring the option of going GPL at the CEO level. They have been chatting with customer council(s) about whether they should do this. The answer is simple: Do it. Do it now. ZFS has inspired many. There are a number of up...
‘Operators’ and ‘Administrators’
Posted on Nov 29, 2008 by Randy Bias
Operating and administrating Internet infrastructure is not the same. For the uninitiated it may seem that ‘operators’ and ‘administrators’ (systems or network) are not different, but there is one important distinction: The primary job of an operator is “risk aversion”, while that of an administrator is to “control, manage, or...
RSS Feed Change
Posted on Nov 25, 2008 by Randy Bias
Please update your RSS feed to point to:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/neoTactics
At some point in the near future, I’ll be switching over to new blogging/CMS software and this will keep your feeds from breaking.