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Cloudscaling brings Infrastructure-as-a-Service “IaaS” clouds to market, and has built up its expertise on building and managing infrastructure for such industry leaders as Amazon, GoGrid, Yahoo, Engine Yard, and Puppet Labs.

Through a recent press release, the company has announced an expansion in its Advisory Board. The company announced that three industry veterans from Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud “EC2”, Internap (News - Alert), Canonical and the Leading Edge Forum at Computer Sciences Corporation “LEF-CSC” have joined the Cloudscaling’s advisory team to help the company make its cloud offerings more profitable for its clients.

Simon Wardley is a recognized expert on cloud and utility computing and open source software. He was responsible for cloud computing strategy at Canonical and. During his time there, Canonical's Linux distribution -- Ubuntu -- became one of the leading cloud computing operating systems. Wardley now researches at LEF-CSC (News - Alert) on the impact of technology change on organizational structure with emphasis on cloud computing, enterprise 2.0 and commoditization.

Chris Brown was a founding member, architect and lead developer for EC2. After Amazon, he worked on the design and construction of another massive web infrastructure as director of engineering for Microsoft's (News - Alert) Edge Computing Network “ECN”. Brown is presently vice president of engineering at Opscode, which produces the configuration management framework Cloudscaling uses to build highly scaled automated solutions.

Ben Black is a recognized expert in internet scale networks. His expertise is a result of a long stint with Amazon.com (News - Alert), Microsoft ECN and Opscode. He was also a member of the Internap R&D team that produced three patents in routing and traffic optimization. He is a co-founder of fast_ip.

The company said, each of the three new advisors is expected to bring experience in a different aspect of Cloudscaling's strategy: make telco and service provider cloud deployments competitive through automated architectures built on commodity hardware and open source software. This reduces risk, shortens development schedules and increases ROI of cloud deployments when compared to legacy IT architectures, which rely upon expensive infrastructure and low admin-to-server ratios.

Simon Wardley, Chris Brown and Ben Black would join Bill Lanfri, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in enterprise networking and telecommunications. He previously served as operating partner at Accel Partners, CEO of Big Bear Network, and CEO of Avanex (News - Alert). He was a founding investor and advisor to RedBack Networks. Lanfri also has served as an investor in an advisor to Network Alchemy. He was a member of the leadership team at SynOptics.

Cloudscaling that has been building private and public clouds all over the world, believe that the new advisors with their vast experience would help the company locate new market opportunities while helping it build competitive clouds more quickly and less risk.

“These four individuals comprise a vast collection of experience designing and building clouds for the biggest and most successful players. Their guidance puts us in a strong position to help our telecommunications clients capture the massive market opportunity. With Cloudscaling, they can build competitive clouds more quickly and with less risk,”  Randy Bias, CEO and founder of Cloudscaling, said.