Tag Archives: scaling

Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations

June 23, 2010 – 19:57

Our own Andrew Shafer, killed it today at the Velocity Conference.  His presentation is a must read for webops, devops, and those aspiring to build 100% uptime cloud services.
It’s hard for folks to internalize how things are changing in Internet-land, but I think you’ll get closer through this presentation.  It’s not the same-old, same-old any [...]

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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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Subscription Modeling & Cloud Performance

August 21, 2009 – 08:30

An infrequently talked about, but very important aspect of cloud computing performance is ‘oversubscription’.  Oversubscribing is the act of selling more resources than you actually have to customers on the assumption that the average usage will be equal to or less than the actual resources on hand.  This is the de facto practice within the [...]

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