Historically, we’ve kept quiet about the details of our approach to building software and architecting elastic cloud infrastructure, but that changes now. Our new blog’s mission is to engage the OpenStack development community and non-OpenStack cloud architects everywhere in a discussion about the variety of technologies and approaches we can...

Two and a half years ago I wrote about the inevitable throwdown between VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS), but recently VMware’s senior leadership appeared to outright admit defeat.  The message to VMware’s partners was simple: “We want to own corporate workload,” said Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s CEO. “We all lose...

(Note: Deadline is Monday, February 25.) On April 15, a record crowd of as many as 2,500 people will descend on the Oregon Convention Center in Portland for what will be the largest gathering of OpenStack developers, users, media and analysts in the project’s three year history. Cloudscaling will be...

I want to try an experiment.  Hopefully it won’t bite me… I am trying to understand if we are close to a consensus on the new apps driving all of the cloud growth. Cloud-native is a term positioned by the folks at MessageBus, cloud-ready is what we at Cloudscaling have...

Sometimes, when you see something sufficiently off-track, you need to respond, even when the person in question may be a personal hero of yours.  Geoffrey Moore (yes that one), recently wrote an article about Cloud Computing that made me very sad.  Besides being off-track, it felt to me as if...

Come and get it!  Love to see your feedback and/or contributions. Cloudscaling Github GCE APIs repo: nova-gce Come visit our booth at the OpenStack Design Summit to ask questions if you have them.

In February, we announced Open Cloud System (OCS). That moment marked our transition to  a product company. Since then, a lot has happened. We have talked and engaged with a lot of customers, and they’ve told us in direct and unambiguous terms what they want from a cloud infrastructure system....

We announced on Thursday the availability of a new compute API set for OpenStack that is compatible with Google Compute Engine (GCE).  GCE is Google’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) compute service that competes with Amazon Web Services EC2.  The announcement was picked up by TechCrunch.  This makes OpenStack the first IaaS software...

As many of you know the OpenStack Design Summit for Grizzly, the next release in spring 2013 is only a handful of weeks away. Cloudscaling and some of our friends have submitted a number of fresh talks mostly centered around making OpenStack production-grade. We would love to have your votes...

We spend a lot of time in this blog talking about the architecture of elastic infrastructure clouds (EIC) like AWS and our own Open Cloud System. We contrast this against the architecture of enterprise virtualization clouds (EVC) like VCE’s Vblock. Nowhere are these differences more obvious than when you look...