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Randy Bias (@randybias)

Twitter Bio:: CTO & Co-Founder - Cloudscaling, cloud computing, social nets, infrastructure, ZFS, ruby, UI design, mobile, poker, & general goodness
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Website:: http://cloudscaling.com

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Can HP jumpstart its cloud computing effort?

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The troubled IT giant is about to tweak its cloud services effort according to a Bloomberg News report. The question is whether yet another new strategy can give the company the traction it needs so badly.Cloud computing has been designated a top priority for Hewlett-Packard which sees its legacy PC, server, and printing businesses under fire. Now it looks like the company is retooling that key cloud effort, according to a report from Bloomberg News.A new division, headed by Saar Gillai, is charged with weaving the disparate pieces of HP’s cloud strategy and weaving together, according to the report which cites an internal HP memo as its source.

Surprise! VMware will join OpenStack

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Never say never. VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation, a group initially backed by other industry giants as a counterweight to VMware’s server virtualization dominance. Intel and NEC are also on deck to join as Gold OSF members.

Just in time for VMworld, VMware is about to join the OpenStack Foundation as a Gold member, along with Intel and NEC, according to a post on the OpenStack Foundation Wiki. The applications for membership are on the agenda of the August

New OpenStack clouds mean something for everyone

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If there isn’t an OpenStack cloud you fancy, wait a second, there’s more — a lot more — in the pipeline. Cloudscaling, Metacloud and Dreamhost will all preview their take on the open-source cloud this week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego.Don’t fret if the OpenStack clouds now available from Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, Internap and a handful of private-cloud-centric startups don’t suit your need. There will be more options to choose from very shortly.This week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego, new flavors of the open-source cloud will be unveiled by Cloudscaling, Dreamhost and Metacloud, among others. Here’s a roundup of some of the noteworthy

Amazon Has Nothing To Worry About. Oracle Will Never Win The Cloud Without ...

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No matter what Larry Ellison says on stage at Oracle Open World, Oracle will never match Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first-class treatment of the developer community. Nor will Oracle even try: it’s a vertical iron machine that Ellison believes has the power to be the new “cloud” for IT. It is not a horizontal distributed, self-service environment that you get when you use AWS.By ignoring developers, Oracle has lost before it has even gotten started. A service like AWS scales because the people who use it are developers. And those developers create apps that power services that millions of people use.Ellison said in his keynote last night that

VMware to join OpenStack: Now what?

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VMware's decision to join the OpenStack Foundation could be a huge or not-so-huge deal. Some see the move as a way to outflank Citrix, others say VMware's Nicira, DynamicOps buys signaled a desire to at least appear more open in the era of cloud computing.If VMware's application to join the OpenStack Foundation is approved, it could mean several things for the server virtualization kingpin.First, it adds more weight

First, it adds more weight

On Cloud And Disruption

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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 expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can subscribe here.Recently at Box’s BoxWorks event, I had the good fortune to hear Clayton Christensen, author of such seminal innovation books as “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” present about disruption in technology generally. Anyone remotely involved in plotting strategy for either existing or new companies needs to read Christensen’s work. Anyway,

Cisco CTO takes on ‘cloudscaling’ upstart in ferocious fireside chat [video]

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At VentureBeat’s cloud-focused conference today, we got a real treat: a fascinating fireside chat with two titans of enterprise IT, Lew Tucker and Randy Bias.Rucker is Cisco’s CTO and vice president of cloud computing, and Bias is the CTO and co-founder of Cloudscaling, a startup with OpenStack-powered products for elastic scaling.In their talk, the two men debated the two types of cloud infrastructure that have emerged as cloud migration strategies for the enterprise: virtualization clouds versus elastic infrastructure clouds. A virtualization cloud means built-in support for older, deeply integrated legacy applications, while elastic clouds

There will be no reliable cloud (part 1)

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Stop wasting your time trying to find one. Stop wasting your time (and money) trying to build one. If you find a service provider that claims that they have it: Maybe question their understanding of cloud - and business.After all these bold claims I'll convince you that this is a - some will say - sad but still valid fact of life.The main issue here is scale. Things (very generally) work very, very different at scale. And cloud infrastructures are all about scale. Keep in mind that complexity of systems does increase exponentially and thus the things that work fine with small systems might completely fail with bigger systems.Let's look at the