Day: February 27, 2014

Are Your Servers Pets or Cattle?

Yesterday I attended a talk by Randy Bias of Cloudscaling. The talk was called “Pets vs. Cattle: The Elastic Cloud.” I thought Randy’s perspective on infrastructure and system administration is really interesting, so I’m going to explain some of the key points that he shared with us yesterday… Under the old-fashioned “enterprise computing” infrastructure model,…

CloudSigma Partners with CompatibleOne to Allow for a Unified View of Computing Environments Across Locations

Partnership Further Validates CloudSigma’s Commitment to Advancing Open, Flexible Cloud Environments Zurich, Switzerland – February 27, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CompatibleOne, an open source, cloud-aware software platform that enables organizations to operate as a Cloud Services Brokerage. Through the…