Tag Archives: scaling
Cloud: Change Management & Cloud Operations
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 … Continue reading
Interview with Cloudscaling CEO on Cloud in the Mid-market
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 … Continue reading
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder's Guide v1.0
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 … Continue reading
State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds
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 … Continue reading
Subscription Modeling & Cloud Performance
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 … Continue reading