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Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011

Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at … Continue reading

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CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing

Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading

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Carriers Catching on to Commodity Cloud: David Bernstein Talks With Ian Scales

Cloudscaling’s David Bernstein spent some time earlier this week with Ian Scales of Telecom TV while in London to speak at an IEEE event. In the short segment, David and Ian explore the five key points that carriers and large … Continue reading
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Cloud FAQs: OpenStack Storage (Swift) – Basics Q & A

We get a lot of inquiries from clients, potential clients, friends of the family, and strangers, particularly about cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).  Recently, we had someone ask us a series of questions about OpenStack Storage (Swift).  Given that the … Continue reading

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IaaS Builder’s Guide – Network Edition

Long overdue, we’re pleased to announce the release of the next chapter of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Builder’s Guide. At the time we released the initial guide (December ‘09), there was very little information out there about building scalable and cost … Continue reading

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