[AusNOG] Help Wanted - Cloudscene [update]

[Bevan Slattery]

Hi guys,

To follow up on this we as things have been moving along pretty well.  We
have around 174 data centres in Australia and 250+ providers.  We have also
built the ³Top 10" ranking system in which Equinix and NEXTDC feature
strongly in the DC space and Vocus, PIPE, IX Australia, Megaport and
Superloop feature well.

https://www.cloudscene.com/

Some current gaps we are looking to fill is with the following:

Service Providers in Australia
Telstra, Optus, TPG/AAPT and Nextgen

Data Centres 
Macquarie, Global Switch (providers within other provider spaces such as
Harbour MSP, PIPE etc.), iSeek and Fujitsu North Ryde

We are about to push this ³live² in the new skin and user interface in
September.  There is more data than you can see here but this is just for
data validation purposes between facilities and providers (in terms of DC
technical data is old/stale not to be referenced).  If you are a Service
Provider that provides services in these facilities and there is data that
is not accurate (add, deletions) then please email update at cloudscene.com
with any adds/moves.  In September account holders for providers will be
authorise to take control of the account and will also cross-validate the
information presented.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

[b]

PS:  At the end of the day we will only be presenting information that can
be validated.  So if a provider does not want to be listed, then they will
not show up, nor be included in the rankings.


From:  Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
Date:  Saturday, 31 January 2015 2:55 pm
To:  "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Subject:  Help Wanted - Cloudscene

Hi all,

Over the past year I have been a bit frustrated regarding the lack of
centralised info on DC¹s and providers ­ and so it appears has Skeeve :).
peeringdb.com is awesome but only for peering and has some gaps in data etc.

I have been working on a personal side project to help create a simple
directory of cloud enablers/providers (i.e. Networks, Cloud providers, DC¹s,
fabrics etc.)¹.  Kind of like the great work Kim Davies did in the
"Cynosure² www.cynosure.com.au days (now gone :().  The site is called
Cloudscene and can be found at http://www.cloudscene.com .

Over the past 4 months we have had a few people work on this with particular
focus on Australia/Asia, however we ended up having to go global due to
providers and listings.  What we are seeking is the help of the Australian
Internet Community to make this more meaningful.

In a few weeks time we will be providing people the ability to take
ownership of their account/information.  However, we also appreciate that to
get this up to speed it will initially probably be easier to just do bulk
uploads/entry.  Happy to take the information from people in whatever the
easiest way for people to provide (eg. spreadsheet).

HOW?

Just email update at cloudscene.com

Data Centre Operators
If the facility is not listed just email information about the facility (and
links to product brochures if you can).  If it is listed and you would like
to update the providers offering services within the facility then simply
send us a list of providers that offer services via with a PoP in the
facility.

Network/Service Providers
So for example if you have a presence in a facility (must be able to offer
services from your own infrastructure within the DC) just send us a list of
DC¹s you have PoP¹s in.  If you are able to provide as much information that
would be terrific (including products and contact details).

At this stage we are listing results from queries based on relevance/number
of providers so facilities with more providers (more relevant) feature
higher.  Of course you can click on any column to change the sort criteria.
There will be some rapid deployment of information happening including
fabrics (IX and elastic) which are in but not fully wired and cloud
providers (IaaS, PaaS etc.) over the next few weeks.  Also additional
criteria for providers is almost completed to help people specify the types
of services they provide.  But one step at a time :)

Anyway, this is just a demo with a subset of data at present.  Just hoping
to put together a useful resource for the industry and any assistance to
flesh this out further is greatly appreciated.  Feedback is also welcome at
feedback at cloudscene.com

Cheers and thank you.

[b]




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