Comments on: Cloudscaling wants to make OpenStack webscale

By: cloudanum

cloudanum — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:14:52 +0000

Good article. The success of Opensource Cloud efforts are important for all of us.

By: Shane L Harris

Shane L Harris — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:15:39 +0000

we’re your ‘MAN’ ????

By: Randy Bias

Randy Bias — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:17:20 +0000

That is correct.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:55:01 +0000

I’m not positive Randy is selling “webscale”, since that’s a marketecture term generally reserved for online applications that need to cope with massive diverse traffic. It means your application can cope with lots of transactions from lots of places and not bonk. Bonus points if it can scale to beat a trafic spike.

I think he’s selling “cloudscale” which is the ability to run your infrastructure on par with what Amazon (e.g.) does and is a remarkable technological feat any way it is accomplished. There’s no real analogy to be strung between webscale and cloudscale; different worlds. Hence, one presumes, the name of Randy’s company.

By: Randy Bias

Randy Bias — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:45:04 +0000

Great article, Derrick. Just a quick clarification: many OpenStack components are *already* web-scale. That’s why we chose it as a core technology. The problem is that it’s missing key capabilities and features that would allow a fully web-scale solution.

Best,

–Randy