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Part one of a two part interview series with tinkering whizz-kid and OneKloud CTO.

What’s up Xavier, can you introduce yourself?

I compiled my first Linux Kernel at eight years old. As a kid I used to disassemble just about everything I could get my hands on. At ten years old I modified the electronics of my first walkie-talkies to try to tune into the police frequency. Then I started coding, the first thing I did was was to clone my mom's cell-phone sim card so I could use her phone without her knowing. My second project was to clone the television’s satellite card so I could watch cable on my computer… I’ve always been into tinkering, fiddling. My studies were math/electronic oriented in high school and then I went on to an engineering school and then got a Masters 1 degree from the Dominican University of California, University in San Rafael, California. Today my whole house is totally controlled by computers, from the front door to the lighting and everything in between. I’m also a massive fan of raspberry pi and arduino.

Does cloud infrastructure live up to the hype?

Finding the optimal amount of resources needed to get the job done, and obtaining them at the most efficient cost —a tradeoff between SLA, availability and cost? These eternal concerns of capacity planning experts are more relevant than ever, despite the dematerialization of many of a company's “resources” as computing power migrates to the cloud. The main attributes of the cloud environment: flexibility and scalability, rhyme with unpredictability. Capacity planning is confronted with a range of new challenges as the scope shifts from hard iron to IaaS.

Part One in a two part series on why over thirty percent of money spent on AWS is wasted; tune in for part two next week to see what can be done about it.

It’s best to share the love when it comes to Cloud-infrastructure providers...

“In the financial markets, investors protect themselves from volatility by diversifying. The same might hold true for companies and organizations that rely on the cloud.”

                                                                                                            -said  first in this article, by Tom Coughlin.