Network Diagramming Examples
Posted on Mar 2, 2008 by Randy Bias
I have a number of blog posts in the hopper, but we’ve also been growing quite a bit around here, so I’m afraid that they are all rather delayed. In the interests of keeping things alive, I thought I would share some older work that is still relevant. I’ve really...
GigaOM & VMware … almost there!
Posted on Dec 29, 2007 by Randy Bias
I hate to be the contrarian, but we’re so close to getting to the ultimate conclusion on virtualization, but keep missing the point. It’s about more than just increasing datacenter utilization. It’s about a lot more in fact. In a recent new interview by the GigaOM with Chief Scientist Mendel...
Happy Holidays
Posted on Dec 22, 2007 by Randy Bias
Myself and the rest of the neoTactics and CloudScale crews are off for the rest of the holidays. We’ll see you again early next year. As a parting gift, the CloudScale team posted some pics of the latest ALPHA UI for their automated EC2 Ruby-on-Rails stack. Great stuff. See you...
Production RoR Stack for EC2
Posted on Dec 21, 2007 by Randy Bias
Great new work from NutRun. If you need to get a single system up and running Ruby-on-Rails quickly on EC2, this is definitely the way to go. Of course, if you need a full production cluster with a clustered database and all of the trimmings, the best options are CloudScale...
GigaOm’s Pizza Boxes Need New Toppings
Posted on Dec 20, 2007 by Randy Bias
Our beloved GigaOm ponders on pizza box servers and their possible replacement by Big IronTM in a new article. After perusing the article and comments I thought it was worth weighing in. So called pizza box servers (1U or 2U form factor systems) are definitely the king in any datacenter...
Another take on Web-Scale Computing
Posted on Dec 19, 2007 by Randy Bias
Greg Borenstein, principal behind Music for Dozens and out loud thinker sums up the potential long term impact of Amazon’s successful cloud computing model. It’s an insightful article and I think worthy of a close read, including the comments. First Greg correctly sums up the obvious: With the announcement of...
A VC invests in Amazon
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 by Randy Bias
A VC thinks Amazon is a good portfolio investment even at 55x next year’s revenue.
With the heat increasing I don’t see how we can’t start seeing some competition with Amazon soon. Should be interesting.
Cloud computing is here. I’m betting on it.
Amazon Web Services vs. Google
Posted on Dec 16, 2007 by Randy Bias
Dave Winer breaks it down on why AWS matters, asking why Google and Microsoft seem to be missing the boat. Of course, insiders are aware that Google is almost certainly going to launch MapReduce as a service, or similar, inside the next year. Still, the real news here, to me,...
Virtualization and Organization Sitting in a Tree …
Posted on Aug 17, 2007 by Randy Bias
Wow, virtualization, organization, and management of systems are not only on the rise, but continue to converge, as I thought they would. The latest announcement is Cisco’s foray into managing and orchestrating network and datacenter resources. Not to mention Opsware was acquired by HP (a big backer of virtualization) for...
Vblogatta: Virtualization, Open Source, VC, and More
Posted on Jul 31, 2007 by Randy Bias
Lots to report on various fronts soon, but thought I would point to a new blog that I discovered by Allan Leinwand, one of the partners at Panorama Capital. Some great posts on Vyatta, an open source IP router player. Allan clearly knows his stuff and has some great perspectives....