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