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Paul Miller04/30/13
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Survey Lifts Covers on Cloud Promiscuity

Figures from RightScale‘s latest State of the Cloud Report (free registration required) suggest “a strong interest in multi-cloud strategies” amongst respondents.

Eric D. Schabell04/29/13
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Red Hat JBoss BRMS - Rewards Demo Updated to JBosss EAP 6.0.1 Beta

With the latest release of JBoss EAP 6.1.0.Beta, it was time to overhaul my existing demo projects and here you will find the results. Previously I had updated this project to JBoss EAP 6.0.

Greg Ness04/29/13
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The Cloud Migration Gap and a 60′s Castaway Comedy

I’ve written a series of blogs about the economics of cloud and the lack of serious enterprise adoption of public cloud (versus data center and private cloud adoption) and I’ve reached the . . .

Larry Franks04/29/13
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The Windows Azure SDK for Ruby

If you haven't heard, there's now a Ruby SDK for Windows Azure that provides access to Windows Azure Data Management services and some Service Bus services.

Keith Mayer04/29/13
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PowerShell Security and Delegation - PKI and PSRemoting

Lots of organizations are looking for ways to better control the secure execution of PowerShell scripts by permitting only scripts created by trusted script authors to run.

Eric Genesky04/28/13
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Azure Automation and Dev/Test for the Enterprise

Learn how to better leverage Windows Azure IaaS with your DevOps team to automate your provisioning processes at scale.

Chris Haddad04/28/13
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New Enterprise Drivers

The Breakup of the Corporation, Connected Business Strategies, The Now Generation, and The Long Tail are driving organizations towards a New Enterprise Future.

Jim O' Neil04/27/13
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Windows Azure – Discover the Cloud and Win Cash

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with a lot of student and professional developers enabling them to take advantage of promotions for building applications for Windows 8 and . . .

Eric Genesky04/27/13
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MySQL on AWS 101

This slideshow from Anders Karlsson helps you get MySQL running on AWS by revealing how to take full advantage of EC2.

Alen Komljen04/26/13
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Lightweight Virtualization with LXC

It’s been a long time since my last post. Now I’m working with more interesting technologies, cloud related, so you will probably see more about that.

George London04/26/13
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How to Notify/Email Yourself When an EC2 Instance Terminates

I make pretty heavy use of EC2 spot instances, which as you know can terminate at any time with no warning.

Build A Cloud04/26/13
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Apache CloudStack 4.0.2 Released!

This is a minor release in the 4.0.0 branch, which contains fixes for 40 bugs.

Omri Erel04/26/13
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Cloud Computing Deployment Models

So the first one, which we are all pretty familiar with, is the data center, or grid computing model . . .

Michael Kopp04/25/13
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So What? – Monitoring Hadoop beyond Ganglia

Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or that have . . .

Greg Ness04/25/13
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Hybrid Cloud Will Transform Disaster Recovery

Enterprises spend billions every year maintaining (and powering) duplicate racks and even entire datacenters, solely for occasional potential use, in the event of an unforeseen outage or disaster.

Omri Erel04/25/13
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How to Save Money with SaaS and Four Other Bootstrapping Tips

Software-as-a-service is a multibillion dollar arena that attracts a good number of businesses on a monthly basis, all of them trying to get a chunk of the humongous pie.

Abhishek Kumar04/25/13
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Beginner's Guide to OpenStack: Basics of Nova

It is built of multiple components performing different tasks turning End User's API request into a virtual machine service.

Senthamizh Chel...04/24/13
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What Systems Can You Migrate to Cloud?

Web Sites with Static Content, Applications, Collaboration Applications, Services

Paul Miller04/24/13
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OpenStack Summit - Thoughts from Portland

OpenStack has come a long way since the project was first unveiled at OSCon back in 2010.

Kevin Remde04/24/13
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Guest OS Profiles in System Center 2012 SP1 VMM

Today’s installment of our “Build Your Private Cloud in a Month” series is the second of a 5-part mini-series we’re calling “Deploying Private Cloud Workloads”

Greg Duncan04/24/13
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14 Minute Video Guide to Building an Azure IaaS Pop-up Lab

Cool, low stress, walk though for creating your own quick and dirty pop-up lab...

Larry Franks04/23/13
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Last Week's Cloud Links from the Silver Lining Blog

The Silver Lining Blog runs a weekly "Pie in the Sky" linklist focusing on Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Azure, and a few other topics. Check 'em out here.

Kevin Remde04/23/13
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Hardware Profiles in System Center 2012 SP1 VMM: Build Your Private Cloud (Series)

Today’s installment of our “Build Your Private Cloud in a Month” series is the first of a 5-part mini-series we’re calling “Deploying Private Cloud Workloads”.

Simon Jackson04/23/13
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Windows Server 2012 Roundup - Part 1

On the back of the #TechEdChallenge I downloaded all three of the evaluation products for review and decided to give them a whirl, the first up was Windows Server 2012.

Senthamizh Chel...04/23/13
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Cloud Computing in a Nutshell

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet.