Cloudscaling is the blog of Randy Bias
I’ve long held that most of today’s cloud security solutions are woefully out of date, horribly static, and simply unsuited for the cloud age. That’s why when I learned about Wallarm , I decided to jump on board as an advisor (with the blessing of Juniper Networks). Wallarm is a promising startup whose technology aims to solve the problems unique to cloud-native application security. The Static…
Semantics. You can’t get away from them. Any good argument worth having is full of nuance, articulated largely through differences in definitions. When there is no disagreement, like “alternative facts aren’t facts”, semantics don’t matter, because we all know it is just spin. Real discussion comes through exploring the nuance in semantic differences. That is where our story starts.…
Continuous response—or “CR”—is an overlooked link in the DevOps process chain. The two other major links—continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)—are well understood, but CR is not. Yet, CR is the essential element of follow through required to make customers happy and to fulfill the promise of greater speed and agility. At the heart of the DevOps movement is the need to greater…
In the DevOps mythos or worldview, continuous delivery (“CD”) is considered one of the holy mantras. Unfortunately, many take CD to an extreme that is unwarranted and not even reflected in how the DevOps originators (e.g. Amazon, Google) operate. This is one of those situations where folks are extrapolating and providing an interpretation of DevOps that isn’t really accurate. The foundational…
This is my last day at Dell EMC. It was a privilege and an honor to found and lead Cloudscaling, one of the leaders in OpenStack, which was acquired by EMC on October 14th, 2014, exactly two years ago. Coincidentally, this is also my birthday. While working at EMC I learned an enormous amount about operating successfully at large enterprise vendors. I want to thank all of the Cloudscalers who…
I have been meaning to write this post for a long time, but one thing or another has gotten in the way. It’s important to me to provide an accurate history, definition, and proper usage of the Pets vs Cattle meme so that everyone can understand why it was successful and how it’s still vital as a tool for driving understanding of cloud. The meme has taken off because it helped created an…
Ever wonder if EMC can bring the “wow”? We are this time at OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. I personally provided feedback and input into all of the EMC submissions this time around, helping increase the quality and the focus on solving problems and making OpenStack awesome instead of EMC products. I think, if you spend the time looking through this list you will be impressed with what you see from…
For the past few months an elite team of Cloudscalers (EMCers) have been working diligently on making ScaleIO great in OpenStack-land. ScaleIO “supported” OpenStack, but it might take a fair bit of time and energy to get it setup. No longer. As of last Friday, both Mirantis OpenStack and Canonical OpenStack work with ScaleIO at the push of a button. The free and frictionless[1] version of ScaleIO…
Last year, EMC announced the open sourcing of ViPR Controller, the world’s leading SDS controller as CoprHD (“copperhead”). Since then we have made tremendous progress, with multiple releases, and operating the project in the open . Recently we achieved another key milestone, the addition of support for RedHat’s Ceph project. CoprHD already supported EMC’s ScaleIO[1], a software-defined storage…
After OpenStack, the number one topic that I get asked about these days is containers and their prospects for the enterprise and cloud-native applications. The prospect of containers replacing hypervisors such as VMware ESX or Linux KVM (the default for most OpenStack deployments) is of keen interest to many. Yet, there is confusion. Many people can’t distinguish the difference between containers…