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VOTE! – OpenStack Design Summit – Making #OpenStack Production-Grade
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...
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Why Google Compute Engine for OpenStack
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...
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Open Cloud System. Version 2.
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...
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GCE APIs for OpenStack are Now Available!
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.
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A response to Geoffrey Moore: Manifest Disruption
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...
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Cloud-native, cloud-centric, or cloud-ready?
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...
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Vote on OpenStack Summit Speaking Submissions
(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...
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VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND TWO … FIGHT! — VMW Conceding Impotence?
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...
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Simplicity Scales: The Cloudscaling Engineering Blog
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...
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Cloud 2020 Summit: Perturbing the Punditocracy
Two independent analysts who have contributed an unvarnished voice of pragmatism to the cloud conversation are Ben Kepes of Diversity Limited and Krishnan Subramanian of Rishidot. They’ve made a name...
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Another Data Point on Ascendancy of OpenStack Cloud
Earlier this week, I gave the keynote address at the Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference in Santa Clara (it’s abbreviated SPDEcon and pronounced, “Speedy-con,” by the way).Sponsored by the...
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Missing the Point on Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud APIs
At the recent Structure event in San Francisco, I watched Werner Vogels’ presentation, along with about 500 others in a packed auditorium. Werner is the CTO of Amazon Web Services and one of the...
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OpenStack at 3: This is What Winning Looks Like
If winning derives from rapid iteration of a minimum viable product, then all indications are that the momentum driving OpenStack will only continue.Consider three facts that demonstrate the rapid...
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OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.
An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community:Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon Dear Stackers, For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack...
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Changes
OpenStack is taking off at a pace that has defied almost everyone’s initial assumptions, and buying patterns are beginning to emerge. That’s a good thing, and it inevitably means change.Smart companies...
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Looking in the Mirror: A Response to My Open Letter
Last week I published an open letter to the OpenStack community calling for more focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) compatibility. I feel strongly about this, as do others. However, in retrospect, I...
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Open Source Heroes: Brian Behlendorf
I can’t think of anyone who has had a more epic impact on the history of open source software than Brian Behlendorf. He’s the co-founder and/or board member of a raft of open source communities,...
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You Can’t Collapse Tiered Storage in Private Clouds Built on OpenStack:...
Fantastical thinking by private cloud builders has led to a deep misunderstanding of cloud storage technologies. If you are building a private cloud, you MUST understand the realities of cloud storage...
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Juniper’s OpenContrail Is a Sign of the Times
Today’s launch of OpenContrail by Juniper Networks is a sign of the times. As we have seen with the OpenStack project, some of the largest enterprise vendors have been embracing open source with a...
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Havana: OpenStack Continues Its March Toward Dominance
The OpenStack train keeps rolling, picking up steam. Today’s Havana release is a remarkable achievement for the Foundation which only recently had its first birthday.Some stats from the Havana release,...
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