Cloudscaling on Cloud Networking and Arista
Posted on May 3, 2011 by Randy Bias
We don’t usually link to vendor material, but in this case, the material in question is a video with yours truly. Not only that, it’s not just any vendor, but Arista Networks, who have been an incredible change agent for cloud computing. Most of the successful commodity clouds I am...
Podcast w/ Blue Mountain Labs & Cloudscaling
Posted on Apr 29, 2011 by Randy Bias
Great podcast this morning with David Linthicum and Bill Russell of Blue Mountain Labs. Dave kept it lively and fast-paced as usual, so it won’t take you long to listen. We covered: The recent AWS outage Why you need two cloud providers The Federal Government’s inability to adopt cloud compute...
OpenStack Design Summit 2011 - Schedule
Posted on Apr 25, 2011 by Randy Bias
There has been a little bit of confusion on the schedule for the upcoming OpenStack Design Summit. It is running Tuesday through Friday this week in Santa Clara. The complete schedule can be found at this link. You can register here, although there is now apparently a wait list. I...
Salesforce.com Shows Us Enterprise Clouds Will Fail
Posted on Apr 13, 2011 by Randy Bias
NOTE: This posting will make a lot more sense if you read my previous posting on Enterprise Cloud Myths. The success of Salesforce.com (SFDC) can teach us a lot about cloud and the emergence of new disruptive business models. In fact, SFDC can also educate us about why the notion of...
There is no half steppin' in Cloud
Posted on Apr 5, 2011 by Randy Bias
Randy Bias, Cloudscaling Co-Founder and CTO chats about cloud with Redmonk’s Michael Coté. Randy and Michael walk through the history and future of Cloudscaling, throwing out insights and musings along the way. Cloud market segments, rogue IT, Starving the Beast, the trough of disillusionment… this one has a little something...
Support Japanese Relief Efforts
Posted on Apr 1, 2011 by Randy Bias
Many of you have undoubtedly been watching the unfortunate events unfold in Japan post-earthquake. Many of the Cloudscaling team are sympathetic, both because many of us live here in earthquake-prone SF Bay Area and also because some of us were here during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Frankly, we’re also...
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Posted on Mar 30, 2011 by Randy Bias
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year without really understanding the positioning and value proposition of this...
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
Posted on Mar 29, 2011 by Randy Bias
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 by service is as follows (click through for full size...
Cloud Connect 2011 & The Cloudscaling Keynote #ccevent
Posted on Mar 18, 2011 by Randy Bias
Cloud Connect 2011 - The Defining Event in Cloud Cloud Connect billed itself as the “Defining Event” in cloud computing this year and I have to say that it seemed to largely prove itself in this regard. It’s one of the highest value cloud computing conferences out there to date....
Amazon Web Services' Rapid Release Cycle
Posted on Mar 11, 2011 by Randy Bias
Last year I asked: “Is Amazon Web Services Winning the Cloud Race?” And during the Cloud Connect 2011 keynote this week I made some assertions that AWS is indeed running away with the ball and backed it up with actual numbers[1]. In addition to the keynote, I provided some updated information...