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  • On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

    August 8, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld
     

    Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages.…

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  • Cooking up some Standard Recipes for OpenStack with Opscode

    June 27, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, chef, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, Intel, OpenStack, Opscode
     

    The battle royal that is being played out between the different Cloud “operating systems” reached new heights at Structure last week. While all of us are talking about this stuff however, vendors and customers alike are simply trying to…

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  • Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations

    April 17, 2012

    Business
    Dell, George Reese, Morphlabs, OpenStack, Opscode, puppet, Puppet Labs, Winston Damarillo
     

    Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniably truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and automate said cloud are becoming increasingly critical – this is…

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  • enStratus–Big Names, Big Money

    November 3, 2011

    Business
    Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, James Urquhart, John Willis, OpenStack
     

    News yesterday that cloud governance and management vendor enStratus (more on them here) has raised a cool $4.5M in a funding round that includes El Dorado ventures. The SEC filing is for an initial $3.5M but reliable sources tell me…

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  • Cloupia and Cloud Management

    September 27, 2011

    Business
    automation, cloudcomputing, Cloupia, data center, enStratus, George Reese, OpenStack
     

    A few nights ago I was called by a London based investment house to talk about cloud management solutions and whether the space had potential. I have to admit my jaw dropped a little that any investment house specializing…

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  • OpenStack Rolls Out Diablo–DashBoard Included

    September 23, 2011

    Business
    amazon web services, cloud computing, enStratus, George Reese, opensource, OpenStack, rackspace, RightScale
     

    Yesterday OpenStack (disclosure, RackSpace, one of the originators of the OpenStack project, is sponsoring CloudU, an education program that I’m curating) rolled out the latest release of its software, this time codenamed “Diablo”. Diablo sees OpenStack edge closer towards finally…

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