Tag Archives: cloudscaling

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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Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations

June 23, 2010 – 19:57

Our own Andrew Shafer, killed it today at the Velocity Conference.  His presentation is a must read for webops, devops, and those aspiring to build 100% uptime cloud services.
It’s hard for folks to internalize how things are changing in Internet-land, but I think you’ll get closer through this presentation.  It’s not the same-old, same-old any [...]

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Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market

June 16, 2010 – 08:24

A recent interview I did with Alex Bewley of Uptime Software is finally available. Although the podcast is nominally about cloud computing for mid-tier enterprises, we actually cover much broader ground. Alex’s blog posting lists the core topics as:

what kinds of businesses are using cloud
how you should go about evaluating it
how to avoid being outsourced [...]

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More Economies of Scale: Efficiency, Head Count and TCO

May 19, 2010 – 10:00

James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it now. You should probably also go through Randy’s follow up, and then watch James talk again… [...]

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Lew Tucker, former Sun Cloud CTO, now Cloudscaling advisor

May 11, 2010 – 08:01

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2010 – Cloudscaling today announced that Lew Tucker, former CTO of Sun’s Cloud Computing business unit, has joined Cloudscaling’s advisory board.  Cloudscaling CEO, Randy Bias, expanded on what this means to the company, “If you look at Lew’s history, you will see that he is a true visionary and [...]

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