Tag Archives: infrastructure

Building A Commodity Cloud with EMC?

June 30, 2010 – 05:09

Just a quick post to note a recent blog post by Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis) that discusses some of the issues related to using EMC for commodity clouds.  The posting hubs around a conversation I have been having with Chuck trying to understand the EMC product line better and seeing if there is a fit for [...]

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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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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder’s Guide v1.0

December 17, 2009 – 08:00

Just in time for the New Year, we’re releasing a short 12 page whitepaper on building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.  This whitepaper is targeted at folks building public or private clouds who want to understand our general take on clouds, cloud computing, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.  In particular, we highlight some of the important areas to think about [...]

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State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds

October 23, 2009 – 18:17

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 [...]

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VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!

September 15, 2009 – 08:00

More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision.  Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter.  Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of Amazon competitors with its recent vCloud Express release.  More importantly, what perhaps neither have realized or, [...]

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