At Cloud Connect earlier this month, Randy Bias spoke with Paul Burns about open clouds, OpenStack, cloud-ready apps and cloud operators finding differentiation in higher layers of the stack rather than in the infrastructure. The 12-minute podcast covers a lot of ground. Enjoy! (Note: Requires Flash.)

Below is the presentation I gave at this year’s 2012 Cloud Connect in Santa Clara.  It was extremely well received.  Better than I expected really, given it’s last minute nature.  For some, I think a lot of the architectural and design patterns aren’t new, but perhaps they haven’t been portrayed...

This weeks’ re-launch of Cloudscaling was amazing. It was all we could have expected and more. My only regret was not being able to walk the halls at Cloud Connect as much as I would have liked, but I think I made up for that during our reception, which was...

Over the past two years, I’ve talked at length about the emerging success gap between ‘enterprise cloud’ and the AWS model. In the past, I’ve asserted that these two different approaches to cloud service very different kinds of applications: legacy apps vs. greenfield apps. Or more appropriately: enterprise applications vs....

The week of February 13 is shaping up to be a milestone in the life of our company. There’s a lot going on, and we’d love for you to join us. Monday, February 13 We’ve got a big announcement on tap related to the next stage of our growth as...

Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. The Cloudscaling blog has...

Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale cloud model has distinct advantages over enterprise clouds running legacy...

I was just informed anonymously about AWS scheduling reboots across hundreds or even thousands of AWS EC2 instances. This is to “receive some patch updates”. As some in the twitterverse have speculated, this is likely a security issue and most likely related to the hypervisor. A copy of one of...

Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and CTO, Cloud Computing at Cisco) delivered on the main stage CloudBeat...

On November 30, Randy Bias is headed to Redwood City to talk about the future of cloud at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2011. Joining him are folks like Allan Leinwand of Zynga, Amit Singh of Google, Thomas Kelly of Best Buy, Adam Selipsky of AWS, and Lew Moorman of Rackspace. There are...