Randy Bias has been deeply involved with IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He currently serves on the executive team of GoGrid, an early cloud computing pioneer, as VP Technology Strategy. Bias specializes in highly available, secure, and scalable datacenter, storage, systems and network design. His earliest extreme uptime, high scalability involvement was with InterNex Information Services, a Bay Area ISP pioneer and eventually the XO Communications backbone. More recently, he provided the vision and direction behind the CloudScale Project, which was focused on building next generation scalable operations tools for clouds and datacenters.
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There is a myth going around about virtualization and cloud computing. It’s
expressed in a variety of ways, but the takeaway is always the same:
“Public clouds are big virtual server clouds.” Sounds good, but untrue
once you look under the covers. For good reason, since virtualization isn’t
a panacea.
Here’s the deal. Public clouds (IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS) are all multi-tenant.
It’s a fundamental definition. Multi-tenancy is one of the core properties
of any cloud. Whether it’s a cloud like GoGrid's, EC2, Google App Engine
(GAE), or Salesforce.com (SFDC). Multi-tenancy is a mechanism whereby public
cloud providers give customers cost efficiencies by aggregating capex at
scale and providing it as a subscription service.
Virtualization is just a multi-tenancy strategy.
Virtualization as Multi-Tenant Solution
That’s right. It’s only a multi-tenancy strateg... (more)
Cloudcenters provide the same kinds of tools that all datacenter and server
operators are already accustomed to, but with all the traditional advantages
of cloud (i.e. self-service, pay-as-you-go, and scalability). Instead of
creating completely new paradigms, cloudcenters are a methodology by which
the customer can have a virtual datacenter hosted ‘in the sky.’
Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) is not the only way to build scalable Cloud
Infrastructures. There are two emerging methodologies for constructing
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) AKA “Cloud Infrastructure Services”.
The f... (more)
Randy Bias has been deeply involved with IT, Operations, and 24×7 service delivery since 1990. He currently serves on the executive team of GoGrid, an early cloud computing pioneer, as VP Technology Strategy. Bias specializes in highly available, secure, and scalable datacenter, storage, systems and network design. His earliest extreme uptime, high scalability involvement was with InterNex Information Services, a Bay Area ISP pioneer and eventually the XO Communications backbone. More recently, he provided the vision and direction behind the CloudScale Project, which was focused on building next generation scalable operations tools for clouds and datacenters.
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