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Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

July 20, 2010 – 12:01

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 and VMware’s vCloud. [...]

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Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

July 5, 2010 – 08:00

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 perspective. Consider:

Amazon’s [...]

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Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale

May 4, 2010 – 07:03

James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you haven’t watched his hour-long presentation, I suggest you do. I also recommend this excellent response from James Urquhart.  My goal in this posting is [...]

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Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed

December 13, 2009 – 13:09

It’s important to understand the potential differences between virtual server disk drives and physical disk drives, so I wanted to post a very brief blog on the topic.  For this article I’ve chosen to compare the performance of an iSCSI SAN on Gigabit Ethernet to a single SATA disk drive.  The reason for this is [...]

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More on Amazon’s SAS70 Type II

November 20, 2009 – 18:59

Amazon hasn’t been forthcoming since my last post on their control and control objectives, which is disappointing, but expected.  I still believe that transparency here is more important than security through obscurity.  Hiding the controls and control objectives doesn’t provide much in the way of particular security benefits, although I’m certain some will argue that [...]

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