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Christian Reilly

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Christian currently serves as Manager of Product & Demand Management at Bechtel Corporation, working in a niche position between the business and technology delivery teams to help identify opportunities to drive worldwide innovation in the mobile and cloud computing areas. Prior to this, Christian was Principal Technology Architect at Manager of Global Systems Engineering at Bechtel. Having gained hands-on experience in 15 different countries designing and managing complex IT environments in support of worldwide project execution, Christian brings a wealth of enterprise experience and led a team that architected and deployed one of the world's first true private cloud infrastructures. Christian is one half of The Loose Couple Blog team and his disclaimer can be found here.

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The Identity Crisis

By Christian Reilly on August 3, 2011

In the three weeks that have passed since being subsumed into the high-velocity Citrix machine, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time meeting with, and listening to, a broad range of existing and potential customers, both service provider and “enlightened” enterprise, as they work through the planning and delivery phases of their respective cloud […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged General Musings | 1 Response

From Bricks to Building Blocks…

From Bricks to Building Blocks…

By Christian Reilly on July 6, 2011

It’s quite amazing to think and reflect on that fact that I’ve been in the business of helping build big stuff for the best part of 16 years. When I say building big stuff, it’s not big, shiny new stuff like your Salesforce or your AWS but, y’know, real big, knock-your-socks-off awesome stuff like airports, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bechtel, cloud computing, IT

Enter The Data Hugger

Enter The Data Hugger

By Christian Reilly on June 13, 2011

At the recent Gluecon event in Colorado, I was fortunate enough to run into my friend Sam Ramji from Apigee and took the opportunity to grab some time with him after he had delivered his excellent panel presentation which was intriguingly entitled “Globalization, Black Swans, and APIs”. It’s always great to bounce ideas and share […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged data hugger, databases, General Musings, glue, not invented here

Are you being served ?

Are you being served ?

By Christian Reilly on May 24, 2011

As I write this latest post, I’m somewhere over the US, cruising at 35,000 feet and hastily making vapor trails toward attendance at my first Gluecon event in Broomfield, Colorado. And you know what, I’m pretty excited too. Not only has Gluecon got a great lineup for 2011 and a promise of being an excellent […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged api, app store, Application programming interface, conferences, General Musings, gluecon, iOS, Mobile Device Management

What happens in Vegas…

What happens in Vegas…

By Christian Reilly on May 9, 2011

As I board the plane to head to Las Vegas for 2011′s Interop and Enterprise Cloud Summit, predictably, yet somewhat rhetorically, the great AWS outage post mortem continues to rumble on. Exactly two weeks after the event, blog after blog and article after article continues to serve up a veritable range of delights from the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, private cloud

Plane Simple

Plane Simple

By Christian Reilly on April 26, 2011

It’s amazing, though not in the least bit surprising, that the recent AWS outage has generated such widespread attention, with a plethora of blog posts from customers to industry experts taking up pixel space across all corners of the globe. I think it’s fairly obvious to all that since the event, everything that needs to […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aviation, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, cloud failure, Design, Netflix, outage

The Main Performance

The Main Performance

By Christian Reilly on April 19, 2011

If you’ve been following breaking developments in Cloud this past week, it will probably have included at least eleventy-six references to vmware’s Cloud Foundry announcement along with some excellent write ups on the topic – including this one from my Cloudave brother, Krish Submaranian and this, quite literally from the horse’s mouth, ex-Spring head honcho, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, CloudComputing, Cloudfoundry, Network performance, vmware

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Poke Me On…

By Christian Reilly on April 11, 2011

My incredible passion for anything related to aviation has burned an indelible problem into my existence. I have a recurring dream. It happens every few months,  rarely with much deviation from the plot, yet it is guaranteed to end in the same way – me waking with a smile on my face. In the dream, I am wandering around the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Boeing, cloud computing, data center, facebook, OpenCompute, savvis

Blue Murder ?

Blue Murder ?

By Christian Reilly on April 6, 2011

I guess it used to be called “Stormchasing” – where groups of seemingly heroic, but clearly just plain stupid, raincoat-clad student types armed with an entry-level standard def video camera caught clips of each other laughing and shouting such ludicrous lines as “oh crap, Bob, it’s coming straight at us” as a 125mph wind got […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, aws, blue murder, cloud computing, Ebay, hewlett packard, IBM, public cloud

Present & Correct ?

Present & Correct ?

By Christian Reilly on March 31, 2011

There are fewer sobering moments in the life of a Principal Technology Architect (which is apparently my official new title) than returning from a trip to the crazy world of Silicon Valley and next day finding oneself standing before a room full of CISOs from some of the leading Fortune 100 companies, rattling off a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged CIO, CISO, cloud computing, General Musings, next gen IT

Life On The Open Waves

Life On The Open Waves

By Christian Reilly on March 27, 2011

For those of you who are either generally interested or perhaps following from afar, it has certainly been difficult to miss the numerous goings-on within the OpenStack community over this last couple of weeks. In what could yet turn out to be the biggest soap opera to appear out of Texas since “Dallas”, there is certainly no shortage of drama – the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, marten mickos, open source, openstack, rackspace, red hat, simon wardley

1-2-3 easy as V-P-C

1-2-3 easy as V-P-C

By Christian Reilly on March 21, 2011

Warning: This is a long post. If you suffer from ADD (like I do) then maybe this one isn’t for you. Blink and you’ll miss it. No, not a shooting star, but the release of yet another celestial feature set delivered by the mercurial team at AWS. These days, it seems there is not a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Virtual Private Cloud, Virtual private network, VPC | 3 Responses

Public Clouds :-)

The Hollywood Culture

By Christian Reilly on March 13, 2011

Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Strategy | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Chris Hoff, Cloudswitch, Netflix, private cloud, public cloud, simon wardley

Inside The Box

Inside The Box

By Christian Reilly on March 7, 2011

Last week, Cisco (and thecloudcast.net) all round good guy, Brian Gracely, posted a very thought provoking piece entitled “The 5 P’s of Cloud Computing“. In the blog post, Gracely uses his strikingly simple yet very powerful framework to drive home a rather obvious, yet seemingly hard-to-grasp concept – not everything about cloud computing success is […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, consulting, General Musings, Peter Block

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AWS – A Wonka Surprise ?

By Christian Reilly on March 5, 2011

Thursday, March 3, saw the simply brilliant folks at AWS shuffle another tantalizing step closer to persuading an Enterprise to move VMs to their burgeoning EC2 platform by making it as simple as taking candy from a baby. Say hello to the “EC2 VM Import Connector”. Immediately following the announcement, that broke, as usual, via an effortless tweet from AWS’ Jeff Barr, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Virtual Private Cloud

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