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The Great Cloud API Debate and VMware’s Hybrid Cloud – Inside Baseball, Unicorns and Rainbows

September 12, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Magic Quadrant, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Paul Miller, VMware

I spent a couple of days this week at CloudBeat, an event that Paul Miller and I have, for the past three years, consulted to on content. The highlights of the show for me where the panel I moderated…

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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

July 24, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Cloudscaling, google, OpenStack, rackspace, Simon Wardley

It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There are some notable critics, none so…

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On Cloud Brokers and Whether they have a Future (Pun Intended)

July 3, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Futures exchange, James Urquhart, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, San Francisco, TechStars

While in San Francisco recently I chaired a debate to look at whether there is in fact a future in cloud futures. The debate was an event from the Cloud Market Forum, an initiative that I’m on the steering…

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Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

May 22, 2013

Business

Cloudscaling, Dell, hewlett packard, LivingSocial, OpenStack, rackspace, Trinity Ventures, Virtual Network Computing

Cloudscaling is this morning announcing that it has secured $10M by way of a Series B venture round. This news comes at a super interesting time when public cloud provision is being heavily squeezed into just a handful of…

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Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

May 2, 2013

Business

#cloud2020, Cloud 2020 Summit, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, data center, DevOps, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, Rodrigo Flores

Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise…

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Speaking at DeployCon and CloudConnect

April 1, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CloudConnect, Cloudscaling, Neal Sample, platform services, Ryan Floyd, Salil Deshpande, Software as a Service

This week sees me on a whirlwind visit to the Bay Area where I’ll be speaking at a few different events as follows: Tuesday – DeployCon I’m really looking forward to the second edition of DeployCon – in the…

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On Cloud And Disruption

January 18, 2013

Business

Business, Christensen, Clayton M. Christensen, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, Crossing the Chasm (book), Geoffrey Moore, Moore

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics

March 28, 2011

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud connect, cloudcomputing, Cloudscaling, commodity, Open source, rackspace, randy bias

Recently at the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Randy Bias, co-founder of cloud builder Cloudscaling gave a fascinating talk which sought to dispel many of the myths around enterprise cloud computing. Bias’ talk is an excellent way to…

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