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Cloudscaling on a Tear – 2009 in Review

January 15, 2010 – 10:16

We’re a little late in posting this due to the holidays, but I have some exciting stats to share with you.  In 2009 the Cloudscaling blog became one of the hottest destinations for cloud knowhow.  A big part of that success was our unique perspective on cloud computing.  We aren’t a news aggregation site.  Instead [...]

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How Clouds Enable Global Reach

December 19, 2009 – 12:46

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the notion of using clouds for global reach.
As you know, since then quite a bit has [...]

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder’s Guide v1.0

December 17, 2009 – 08:00

Just in time for the New Year, we’re releasing a short 12 page whitepaper on building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.  This whitepaper is targeted at folks building public or private clouds who want to understand our general take on clouds, cloud computing, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.  In particular, we highlight some of the important areas to think about [...]

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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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