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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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Join Cloudscaling, the Power Behind the Cloud

April 23, 2010 – 01:00

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Debunking the “No Such Thing as A Private Cloud” Myth

January 19, 2010 – 06:50

Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon.  The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing.  Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model.  Only large scale [...]

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