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 [...]
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 [...]
I recently gave a short, 5-minute ‘lightning talk’ at Cloud Camp in the Clouds. This is the first ‘virtual’ (online) event for the Cloud Camp folks. I want to particularly thank the organizers Reuven Cohen, Dave Nielsen, and Sam Charrington for allowing me to give our perspective and also to let us tee up the entire event [...]
It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science. There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up. Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized. In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]
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