Randy Bias
Randy Bias is the co-founder and CTO of Cloudscaling, which is building the first OpenStack-based IaaS solution designed to deliver the cost, performance and scalability benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for public and private clouds. Randy's engineering leadership background includes GoGrid and CloudScale Networks. He led the open-licensing of GoGrid's API, which inspired Sun Microsystems, Rackspace Cloud, VMware and others to open-license their cloud APIs.
Complexity fails: A lesson from storage simplification
Storage architectures show simplicity's power and how to build clouds at scale.
Simple systems scale effectively, while complex systems struggle to overcome the multiplicative effect of potential failure points. This shows us why the most reliable and scalable clouds are those made up of fewer, simpler parts.