[AusNOG] FW: Help Wanted - Cloudscene [update]

Tue May 10 17:58:18 EST 2016

Great Stuff Bevan!

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Thanks everyone for all your help.  We have manually updated a bunch of
> info and now have over 4,600 facilities, 4,100 providers and 150 odd
> fabrics from around the world on the DB.
>
> We have a demo view of the new version here https://itw.cloudscene.com for
> people to check their data.  There have been some addition to fabrics and
> providers but mostly this is up to date.  The facility tech specs photos
> will be there for the live site, this was more about the data matching for
> the facilities, fabrics and providers so don’t be too put off by same stock
> images and lack of tech data in this build.
>
> Love to have everyone’s last review before we push it live on the normal
> website (www) next month.  Should be a really good resource for the
> industry in particular for pop deployment analysis.
>
> Cheers
>
> [b]
>
> From: Bevan Slattery <bevan at slattery.net.au>
> Date: Thursday, 20 August 2015 2:46 pm
> To: "ausnog at ausnog.net" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
> Subject: Help Wanted - Cloudscene [update]
>
> 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 *“Top 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 “live” 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
> <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 DC’s 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,
> DC’s,  fabrics etc.)’.  Kind of like the great work Kim Davies did in the
> "Cynosure” 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 <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
> DC’s you have PoP’s 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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Gus
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