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August 13, 2011 Elastic pricing for clouds is not a requirement

There is more than one way to do cloud billing. Many deployments out there use the Amazon way of billing for things — no commits, pay-per-use. I think a reminder needs to be given that pay-per-use billing isn’t the only way. For example, bandwidth providers typically, charge 95-percentile. Meaning, the customer pays for capacity, whether [...]

June 27, 2011 Swift in the Small

For the upcoming OpenStack meetup the theme is ‘Corporate IT’. This got me thinking about what a small-scale Object Storage (Swift) cluster would look like. At Cloudscaling, we have already done two of the early large-scale OpenStack Object Storage deployments outside of Rackspace. These deployments were for service providers at the petabyte scale. We had [...]

June 17, 2011 OpenStack Conference Misc Sessions

I’m wrapping up my notes from the OpenStack Conference with a rundown of some of the other sessions I attended that didn’t fit neatly in the areas I was focusing on during my time at the conference (Networking, Block/Volumes, Object Storage). Here are my remaining notes. Unified Identity System This is a welcome proposal. There [...]

June 17, 2011 OpenStack Conference: Object Storage (Swift) Notes

Continuing to get down my notes from the Spring 2011 OpenStack Conference. This time i’m covering a topic true to my heart as I’ve been involved with deploying Swift for our clients (Deploying Petabytes with OpenStack, KT’s Storage Cloud). As always, it was great to spend time at the conference with the core Swift team [...]

June 16, 2011 OpenStack Conference: Blocks and Volumes Notes

I’m continuing the several-weeks-late rundown on the OpenStack Conference. Previously, I walked through my OpenStack Conference Networking discussion notes. This time I’ll be sharing my notes from the block storage / volume sessions I attended. I hopped through most of the sessions as best I could. Here is my summary. XenAPI Volume Driver Renuka Apte of [...]

June 16, 2011 OpenStack Conference: Networking Notes

I know this is a couple of months late… But, hey, we’ve been busy at Cloudscaling. Besides the talk I gave (Commercializing OpenStack Object Storage), I wanted to distill my notes from the Spring 2011 OpenStack Conference / Design Summit and give a rundown of where things are heading. There are a ton of topics [...]

April 28, 2011 OpenStack Conference – Commercializing Object Storage / Swift

Really enjoyed sharing our experiences deploying several petabytes of OpenStack Object Storage service (Swift) at the OpenStack conference. Great questions all around. Major points were: Offer storage alongside other other services not as a standalone service. Take advantage of fault tolerance by using lower-cost, commodity equipment. Hardware for a petabyte of durable storage can be [...]

February 2, 2011 Deploying Petabytes with OpenStack

Check out my post about the first commercial OpenStack deployment over at Cloudscaling: OpenStack Object Storage Moves Beyond Rackspace

November 10, 2010 Deploying OpenStack Object Storage

I just gave a talk at the OpenStack Conference on deploying the Object Storage, Swift. Here are the slides! Click through to slideshare if you want to read the speaker notes. Thanks goes to Val Beck with the slide designs! Thank you!

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