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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
Webinar: Web-Scale Cloud Building with Arista Networks and Quanta
We spend a lot of time on stage at conferences talking about building web-scale clouds. This Friday, we’re partnering with Quanta and Arista to deliver a webinar for engineers and anyone else wanting to dig deeper into the details of architecture, … Continue reading
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
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading
Grid, Cloud, HPC … What's the Diff?
It’s always nice when another piece of the puzzle comes into focus. In this case, my time speaking at the first ever International Super Computer (ISC) Cloud Conference the week before last was well spent. The conference was heavily attended … Continue reading