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.
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 first is what we call “cloudcenters”, which are essentially
datacenters in the sky. The second is what we call an “Infrastructure Web
Service”. GoGrid was one of the pioneers for cloudcenters, whil... (more)
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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-tena... (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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