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Randy Bias

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Co-Founder, CTO at Cloudscaling.  Since 1990, Randy has driven innovations in infrastructure, IT, operations, and 24×7 service delivery. He was the technical visionary at GoGrid and built the world’s first multi-cloud, multi-platform cloud management framework at CloudScale Networks. He led the open-licensing of GoGrid's API, which inspired Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, VMware and others to open-license their cloud APIs. Randy blogs @ Cloudscaling blog, is recognized by The Next Web as one of the 25 Most Influential People Tweeting About Cloud, is frequently interviewed and speaks at dozens of industry events annually.

Five Things OpenStack Needs to Do … Now.

Five Things OpenStack Needs to Do … Now.

By Randy Bias on September 17, 2015

At the most recent OpenStack SV 2015 event, I was invited to speak and provide a viewpoint on OpenStack’s future.  The year before in 2014 I gave a talk entitled “Lie of the Benevolent Dictator” which spawned the Product Working Group for OpenStack.  A blog posting entitled The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015 in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged emc, open source, openstack, vmware

Cloud … You’re Doing it Wrong!

Cloud … You’re Doing it Wrong!

By Randy Bias on August 14, 2015

I’ve been doing “cloud” for about as long as it’s been a “thing”.  It is safe to say that I’ve talked about every conceivable topic related to cloud and cloud computing.  Unfortunately, I still run into a common problem, which is that the average enterprise looking to adopt cloud or build their own, is usually […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing | 1 Response

Killing the Storage Unicorn: Purpose-Built ScaleIO Spanks Multi-Purpose Ceph on Performance

Killing the Storage Unicorn: Purpose-Built ScaleIO Spanks Multi-Purpose Ceph on Performance

By Randy Bias on August 4, 2015

Collectively it’s clear that we’ve all had it with the cost of storage, particularly the cost to maintain and operate storage systems.  The problem is that data requirements, both in terms of capacity and IOPS are exploding and growing exponentially, while the cost of storage operations and management is growing proportionally to those data needs. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Ceph, cloud computing, Distributed file system, File system, linux, RBD

A CoprHD Status Update

A CoprHD Status Update

By Randy Bias on August 3, 2015

I wanted to provide you a big update on Project CoprHD and a mea culpa.  As many of you know, EMC launched CoprHD during EMC World 2015 and made the code generally available on June 5th.  Unfortunately, we are learning the hard way about proper follow through when open sourcing a project.  As you probably […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, CoprHD

Project CoprHD’s Architecture

Project CoprHD’s Architecture

By Randy Bias on July 9, 2015

Unless you had your head in the sand, you probably saw my blog post talking about Project CoprHD (“copperhead”), EMC’s first open source product. Exciting times are ahead when one of the world’s largest enterprise vendors embraces open source in a big way. Does it get any bigger than picking your flagship software-defined storage (SDS) […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, CoprHD, open source

EMC and Canonical expand OpenStack Partnership

EMC and Canonical expand OpenStack Partnership

By Randy Bias on May 27, 2015

As you saw at last week’s OpenStack Summit, EMC® is expanding its partnership with Canonical amongst others. I want to take a moment to talk specifically about our relationship with Canonical. We see it as a team up between the world’s #1 storage provider and the world’s #1 cloud Linux distribution. For the last two […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged canonical, cloud computing, emc, linux, openstack

State of the Stack v4 – OpenStack In All It’s Glory

State of the Stack v4 – OpenStack In All It’s Glory

By Randy Bias on May 22, 2015

I gave the seminal State of the Stack presentation at the OpenStack Summit.  This is the 4th major iteration of the deck.  This particular version took a very different direction for several reasons: Most of the audience is well steeped in OpenStack and providing the normal “speeds and feeds” seemed pedantic There were critical unaddressed […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged openstack, slideshare, youtube

Introducing CoprHD (“copperhead”), the Cornerstone of a Software-Defined Future

Introducing CoprHD (“copperhead”), the Cornerstone of a Software-Defined Future

By Randy Bias on May 15, 2015

You’ve probably been wondering what I’ve been working on post-acquisition and yesterday you saw some of the fruits of my (and many others) labor in the CoprHD announcement.  CoprHD, pronounced “copperhead” like the snake, is EMC’s first ever open source product.  That EMC would announce open sourcing a product is probably as big a surprise […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, CoprHD, open source

Hyper-Converged Confusion

Hyper-Converged Confusion

By Randy Bias on March 2, 2015

I have had my doubts about converged and hyper-converged infrastructure since the Vblock launched, but I eventually came around to understanding why enterprises love the VCE Vblock. I am now starting to think of converged infrastructure (CI) as really “enterprise computing 2.0”. CI dramatically reduces operational costs and allows for the creation of relatively homologous […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing

Vancouver OpenStack Summit – EMC Federation Presentations

Vancouver OpenStack Summit – EMC Federation Presentations

By Randy Bias on February 19, 2015

Voting for presentations at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit is now open.  Please help us by voting on the sessions submitted by EMC Federation speakers along with any other sessions that cover topics that might interest you.  Please vote at your … Continue reading →

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Open Source | Tagged openstack, openstack summit, vancouver

The Future of OpenStack’s EC2 APIs

The Future of OpenStack’s EC2 APIs

By Randy Bias on February 12, 2015

Recently, some more talk was had around the future of the EC2 APIs, beginning with some comments on the openstack-operators mailing list, followed by threads on the dev and foundation mailing list.  This ultimately resulted in a suggested commit to officially “deprecate” the EC2 APIs from Nova.  This commit was rejected, but make sure you […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloudscaling, EMC Corporation, gogrid, Metacloud, openstack

“Vanilla OpenStack” Doesn’t Exist and Never Will

“Vanilla OpenStack” Doesn’t Exist and Never Will

By Randy Bias on February 3, 2015

One of the biggest failures of OpenStack to date is expectation setting.  New potential OpenStack users and customers come into OpenStack and expect to find: A uniform, monolithic cloud operating system (like Linux) Set of well-integrated and interoperable components Interoperability with their own vendors of choice in hardware, software, and public cloud Unfortunately, none of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, openstack, platform as a service | 1 Response

The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015

The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015

By Randy Bias on January 13, 2015

This year will be a crucial year in OpenStack history.  This is the year we fix much of how OpenStack is structured or die trying.  By structure, I mean the vision, the project structure, the integrated release cycle, and the board and TC’s role in driving direction. First, stop and read this blog posting by […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, cloudstack, openstack | 1 Response

My Endorsements for the 2015 OpenStack Individual Director Elections

My Endorsements for the 2015 OpenStack Individual Director Elections

By Randy Bias on January 13, 2015

If you are voting this year in the individual director elections, and I sincerely hope you are, I would appreciate it if you would give special consideration to the following candidates and a super brief “why” Kavit Munshi – international … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source | Tagged openstack

The EMC Federation Joins the OpenStack Foundation

The EMC Federation Joins the OpenStack Foundation

By Randy Bias on December 15, 2014

Recently a major set of milestones was reached for the EMC Federation’s involvement with OpenStack. First, EMC and it’s affiliated companies and brands (VMware, VCE, Pivotal, RSA, Cloudscaling) determined a cohesive strategy for engagement with the OpenStack Foundation Board. Second, EMC appointed a VMware employee, Sean Roberts (@sarob), as the official representative of EMC and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, emc, openstack, vmware | 1 Response

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