Tag: amazon
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Learning about Cloud Storage from Nirvanix’s Geoff Tudor
On Friday I grabbed lunch with Geoff Tudor, SVP of business development and co-founder of Nirvanix . After they cleared the plates I talked to Geoff about what Nirvanix does and where he saw cloud storage heading. Some of the topics Geoff tackles: Providing cloud storage for the enterprise from five data centers around the…
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Cloud Tamer: Right Scale’s CEO Michael Crandell
I’m getting down to the end of the videos I recorded last month at Cloud World/Open Source World and I’ve saved some of the best for last. My penultimate interview is with Michael Crandell, CEO of Right Scale. Right Scale, based in sunny Santa Barbara California, makes a cloud management platform that provides greater control…
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RightScale Part 2: Why the cloud? Apple Fanboys and Server Suffrage
Tuesday I listened in on the RighScale webinar: How to Build Scalable Websites in the Cloud. This is part two of my thoughts and notes from the event. (Note: it doesn’t look like it’s been posted yet but it should be available here soon). As I discussed last time, RightScale acts as a management platform…
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Splitting the Cloud in Three
Last week I attended the Rackspace Customer Event (Lombardi Blueprint is hosted at Rackspace) down on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. It was a great event and I sat in on some cool talks as well as grabbed some time with several of the Rackspace execs. Later this week and/or early next week I will…
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Microsoft Joins the Cloud Party
Yesterday at PDC, the big Microsoft developer fest, Ray Ozzie got up and announced the beta launch of Windows Azure, Microsoft’s entry into the cloud computing arena. (It may be beta but you’ll notice they already have a snazzy logo) This wasn’t a big surprise to anyone since they had been doing some saber-rattling in…