Edward Wustenhoff

CTSO at Burstorm

Edward Wustenhoff brings over twenty years of IT management, technology and services experience to the management team at Burstorm.

Prior to joining Burstorm, he worked at Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, Netflix and Complete Genomics.

While at Sun, in the Advanced Internet Practice, he helped ISP's and other customers design, deploy and manage large scale compute and storage infrastructures. Long before ITIL became an industry standard, Edward published articles on how to use SLA's in the data center and manage them through automation.

At Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, and Netflix, he developed a broad set of experience around IT management, large scale infrastructure design and IT service development. As Chief IT consultant at Sun, he developed and published the Operations Management Capability Framework and Model designed to support the professional services organization deliver high quality Data Center projects.

As Director of IT at Complete Genomics, he was responsible for the HPC infrastructure design and management. He drove the selection process of Data Center hosting offerings ranging from Public Cloud Computing solutions to building in-house Data Centers.

At Burstorm he helps customers make the right Cloud Services choice based on technology, service and quality requirements while being responsible for the overall professional services portfolio and support infrastructure.


  •   Featured Stories  
  •   Contributions  
Featured Stories
Top Ten Things to Consider About Cloud Services
by Edward Wustenhoff
This article discusses the top 10 things to consider about cloud services. It focuses on Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and primarily on the three most important characteristics of any Cloud Service Provider: functionality, quality and price.
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Selecting Cloud Services: Opening the Door to Cloud Computing
by Edward Wustenhoff
This article introduces some of the challenges companies typically face when considering moving to the cloud. How do you understand and map your requirements with the hundreds of potential cloud suppliers, while not taking months to work through a formal RFP process? The article also outlines Burstorm's approach to meeting these challenges.
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Rebooting Corporate Video
by David Macias & Vince Vasquez
One of the primary tools Cloudbook uses for creating the video component of a Cloudbook StoryTM is Cisco’s Flip MinoPRO HD camcorder. Flip helps Cloudbook introduce the new generation of Cloud stars, enabling them to tell their stories in a format that is spontaneous, natural, convenient and free of the drab backdrop of a studio curtain.
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Contributions
Cloudbook Video: Introducing Burstorm
Contributors: Edward Wustenhoff & Brandon Abbey
Burstorm CEO Brandon Abbey and CTSO Edward Wustenhoff talk about the challenges companies face trying to match their (often unknown requirements) to the dizzying number of potential cloud supppliers, and how Burstorm can assist in this process.


Cloudbook Video: How to build a Server in the Time it Takes to Get a Latte
Burstorm CTSO Edward Wustenhoff demonstrates how easy and quickly one can start a Blog Server on GoGrid


Cloudbook Video: How To Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance
Burstorm CTSO demonstrates how you can start an instance on Amazon EC2 in about the time it takes to order a latte.




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