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Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?
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 … Continue reading
Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?
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 … Continue reading
Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale
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 … Continue reading
Virtual Server vs. Real Server Disk Drive Speed
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 … Continue reading
More on Amazon's SAS70 Type II
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 … Continue reading