CIO Concerns about Cloud Security
Posted on Jun 23, 2008 by Randy Bias
There is a little here on CIOupdate about CIO concerns with cloud security. The article is short and a little overblown in how both sides are represented. I’m currently talking to CIOs and CISOs at large enterprises and I’m not hearing any ‘panic’ so much as pragmatic concerns about securing...
Cloud Values
Posted on Jun 22, 2008 by Randy Bias
If you haven’t noticed, the cloud computing conversation is in full swing. There has been a vigorous discussion recently on both blogs and the Cloud Computing Group around defining ‘cloud computing’ and everyone is taking a swag at it; usually with their own bias. Of course, I already have my...
More on Cloud Services
Posted on Jun 12, 2008 by Randy Bias
I just found an interesting PowerPoint presentation on Cloud Services from Forrester that seems pretty complete, especially as it relates to the enterprise. You can find it here (PPT).
Also, James Urquhart has a nice wrap-up of some of the recent discussion over ‘cloud computing’ terminology.
Short-Sighted about Cloud Computing
Posted on May 30, 2008 by Randy Bias
There seems to be a group myopia around so-called ‘cloud computing’ and it’s definitions. What we’re really talking about are ‘cloud services’ of which, ‘computing’, is only a subset. It gets worse when you have people talking about Software as a Service (SaaS) as a ‘cloud’ service. Things continue to...
ZFS in the Cloud
Posted on May 7, 2008 by Randy Bias
I’m quite pleased to see that you can now get OpenSolaris with Amazon’s EC2. OpenSolaris on EC2 means that you can now run your storage and/or databases in the cloud on top of the ZFS filesystem. Among the number of truly outstanding capabilities of ZFS are, snapshots, cloning, compression and...
“Auto-magical” Scaling
Posted on May 4, 2008 by Randy Bias
Rails doesn’t scale, Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud does, but wait you need Scalr to actually scale. So… What is ‘scaling’? Everyone’s an expert on it these days it seems. It’s talked about in terms of languages, cloud computing grids, databases, and more. Just today, Ola Bini provides a humorous swag...
Storage, Storage, Storage
Posted on Apr 28, 2008 by Randy Bias
Storage requirements are exploding causing more and more small and medium businesses to employ creative solutions to stem the tide. In December, Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), posted a blog entry about projected enterprise data growth. The entire posting is worth a read, but the included chart...
Amazon offers Premium Support for AWS
Posted on Apr 17, 2008 by Randy Bias
Amazon Web Services just rolled out new support services. Very interesting. Between this, the new EC2 updates, and the private beta for persistent storage there seem to be a lot of valuable AWS enhancements in the hopper of late.
More on Google App Engine
Posted on Apr 16, 2008 by Randy Bias
Great roundup of postings on App Engine here.
It’s the App, Silly
Posted on Apr 11, 2008 by Randy Bias
I missed the announcement of Google’s App Engine[1] by a few hours, but it was quickly brought to my attention. Initially, it looked like a direct competitor to technology we have been working on. Fortunately, it’s not. CloudScale made a decision in January to move away from building a commodity...