On 05.02.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson
On Wednesday May 1, ProfitBricks held a webinar with Paul Burns from Neovise on the emergence of Cloud Computing 2.0. While everyone applauds the first generation of public cloud providers for breaking new ground compared to traditional on-premise solutions, Cloud 1.0 is rarely endgame and there are more improvements to be made. Paul has a [...]
On 04.26.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson
The concluding day of the Rightscale Compute ’13 conference reinforced themes introduced the day before. The breakouts, in particular, echoed ideas about Choice, Outages, DevOps, pricing implications of On Demand infrastructure, and Cloud Maturity. In his talk on deployment checkups, Rightscale Senior Services Architect Brian Adler talked a lot about mature cloud consumers being smart [...]
On 04.26.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson
The Mission Bay Conference Center was the hub of cloud management software discussion today for the 2013 version of the Rightscale Compute conference. Rightscale CEO Michael Crandell summed up the days events best during his morning keynote when he said, “The State of the Cloud . . . is Change.” While he admitted that AWS [...]
On 04.24.13, In Cloud Computing, by Andy Lurie
ProfitBricks will be exhibiting at Interop 2013, May 7-9, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Interop is one of the largest and most prestigious conferences and exhibitions designed to empower information technology professionals to make smart business decisions. It offers a strong combination of educational content, a dynamic exhibition of technology providers, [...]
On 04.24.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson
ProfitBricks will host a special live 30-minute cloud computing webinar on May 1. The webinar will feature IT services and cloud infrastructure experts Paul Burns, president at Neovise, and Pete Johnson (@nerdguru), senior director of cloud platform evangelism at ProfitBricks. ProfitBricks USA CEO Bob Rizika will moderate the event. “Cloud Computing 2.0 Is Here, What [...]
On 04.19.13, In Cloud Computing, by Pete Johnson
Sitting in Conference Room 2 at SuperNAP last Friday waiting for our tour of the best data center in the world to start, my buddy Steve and I stood with mouths agape overlooking the window that revealed the main hosting floor. If you haven’t seen it, the picture on the left doesn’t do it justice, [...]
