2012 – Year in Review
Over the last few days I've spent some time reflecting with my wife Laura on where the company was just 12 months ago. I was only 6 months into launching the company, many of the deals I had been working on that were originally slated to close in October of 2011 were...
WTF is Private Elastic Cloud?
Because having some kind of "cloud" related service you could market and sell was SOOOOOO 2 months ago, I'm now seeing nearly every service provider in the market trying to convince me that they are suddenly capable of selling some new flavor of "PRIVATE cloud"... as...
Intelligent Forecasting for Public Cloud
Generally I try not to promote the same service provider in two consecutive newsletters... After meeting with Hassan Hosseini, Marketing and Product Manager for PlanforCloud.com down at the RightScale HQ in Santa Barbara 2 weeks back however, I would seriously be...
Architecting Scalable Applications for the Cloud
RightScale, one of the hidden high value partners that many of the clients, service providers and partners we work with leverage on a day to day basis, has put forward a brilliant treatise on how to architect scalable applications in the cloud. We have featured this...
What Does Cloud Mean to You?
When people ask us “Do you guys sell the cloud?”, we take a deep breath, center ourselves, smile and kindly respond with the question, “Yes, but tell me what does Cloud mean to you?” We’ve been asking our twitter stream this same question for some time, and not...
Have a Virtual Conversation with OSI’s CEO, Sean Patrick Tario
After fighting it for so long, I finally gave up and became one with the "cloud"... literally... well ok, virtually... but no joke, I have joined the clouding cloudification of the cloud and can be anywhere at any time! So how have I cloudified myself you...
Integrity and Accountability are Industry Agnostic
Along my professional journey I have been inspired and encouraged by others who believe the statement in the header to be true. When this occurs, an instant connection is made and we help hold one another accountable to their achievement through our continued open and...
“One Throat to Choke” – Multiple Region Datacenter Deployment
The CLIENT A national outsourced IT service provider HQ’d in the Bay Area with offices across the United States owned by a global fortune 500 professional services firm. The CHALLENGE Early 2011 the client started a RFP process specifically seeking an enterprise...
“Rails” users can expect 10x scalability using Clustrix
Earlier this month our partners over at Bluebox announced a partnership with Clustrix to provide a MySQL Database-as-a-Service solution for scaling Ruby-on-Rails applications. We congratulate Bluebox on this strategic partnership and are intrigued at the implications...
CASE STUDY: Architecting and Delivering a Private Elastic “Cloud”
INDUSTRY/VERTICAL & PROFILE The Client is a startup working in close partnership with one of the world’s largest global telephony providers, building the next-generation Cloud-based Unified Communications (CBUC) platform for the consumer and SME markets. NEEDS OF...