Eric Genesky01/26/12
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James Urquhart claims Cloud is complex—deal with it, adding that "If you are looking to cloud computing to simplify your IT environment, I’m afraid I have bad news for you" and citing his earlier CNET post drawing analogies to a recent flash...
Chris Smith01/26/12
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The Common Crawl Corpus, a repository of valuable web crawl metadata composed of 5 billion web pages, is now available on AWS Public Data sets and is available for free on the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the ARC (.arc) file format.This is great news...
Chris Smith01/26/12
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There are a lot of ways to track data on your smartphone or mobile device, but what do you do with that data once its been collected? A new set of mobile apps from OpenPaths, available for both iOS and Android, provides a "secure data locker for...
Ted Neward01/26/12
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In his Dr Dobb’s overview, Andrew Binstock talks about the prevalence
of low-cost, low-powers and suggest in the title of the piece that they
have begun their steady ascent over more traditional servers. His
concluding statement, in fact, suggests...
Brian Swan01/26/12
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This is a short post to share the results of a little investigation I did that was inspired by comments on a post I wrote about using SQL Azure for handling session data. The comment was by someone reporting that SQL Azure seemed to be faster than Azure Table...
Craig Dickson01/26/12
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Today in an email to existing AWS customers, Amazon introduced a service known as AWS Storage Gateway which is an on-premise software appliance allowing customers to easily transfer data from on-premise storage to S3. This service could be used for offsite...
Ben Kepes01/25/12
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FireHost (more on them here)
a cloud company that is targeting large companies with particular
compliance and high traffic needs – customers span the eCommerce, SaaS,
healthcare and security areas is today announcing the opening of its
European...
Larry Franks01/25/12
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In part 2
I discussed how to create a startup task to run tests during
application startup. But what if something goes wrong and your test
output contains a bunch of failures or the output isn’t generated? If
the fix is obvious, making the required...
Chris Smith01/25/12
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EnterpiseDB, the world-wide provider of enterprise-class products and PostgreSQL based services, announced today that the Postgres Plus Cloud Database, a DBaaS for PostgreSQL databases, will be available through Amazon Web Services. The big selling point of...
Eric Genesky01/24/12
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Microsoft's SQL Azure Labs About page describes its projects as a series of "working prototypes" that represent . . .. . . our latest thinking in specific areas that we want to share with you and have not undergone the rigorous testing required to...
Brian Gracely01/23/12
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A couple weeks ago there was an interesting discussion on Twitter amongst the #clouderati about ways to manage risk in a public cloud environment. I believe it was a fragment off the discussion that James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart) started about how...
John Esposito01/23/12
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In this video, Scott Guthrie spends 90 minutes examining Windows
Azure, from what it is to how it works, with many examples and code
demos.Scott also made his slides and samples available in a
blogpost this week, and promises more comprehensive Azure...
Sacha Labourey01/22/12
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IntroductionWhen people hear “Cloud Computing,” most will think of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, “renting servers and storage by the hour” -- all of which are typically grouped under the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) banner. Yet, while IaaS has...
Ben Kepes01/22/12
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Recently OASIS standards body started work on the proposed Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
(or TOSCA) for short, standards specification. The standard aims to
deliver on the long-heralded, but much disputed concept of cloud...
Mariano Vazquez01/21/12
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One of the things you may want to do while working on Azure is to
obtain information about your role environment. The current role
instance name, the DeploymentID or even know if the role instance is
running or not. This can be tricky if you use NodeJS,...
Eric Genesky01/20/12
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Matt Hicks of Red Hat's OpenShift team talks about using the cloud for the deployment of web applications.This presentation ends with an informative Question and Answer session.
Liran Zelkha01/20/12
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Many of our customers run their environment on Amazon EC2, and a
popular question that comes up is the configuration of security groups
in EC2.
For a definition, let’s have a look at the EC2 developer guide:
A security group acts
as a firewall...
Eric Berg01/19/12
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“The cloud will change IT as nothing before it has. It may end up
removing the last vestiges of the captive IT organization that “owns”
its enterprise as surely as the enterprise owns IT. CIOs are right to
start addressing it now.” – The Why...
Brian Swan01/19/12
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Among the December updates to the Windows Azure platform was the introduction of SQL Azure Federations. In a nutshell, SQL Azure Federations introduces an abstraction layer for the sharding
of SQL Azure databases. The value in federations lies in your...
John Esposito01/18/12
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For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it was so good? Maybe include some particular projects the advice helped you with, or how the advice...
Eric Berg01/18/12
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In a piece for Wired, Robert McMillan lays out our long, conflicted relationship with the password.
What started as an easy solution to access our lives online has
spiraled out of control. We are now forced to remember more passwords
than ever, many...
Chris Smith01/18/12
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Although some people with very little understanding of IT will say that cloud computing eliminates the need for Operations, and therefore DevOps, the developers and sysadmins in the trenches know that cloud computing could actually bring more opportunities...
Ben Kepes01/17/12
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At Lotusphere IBM
is today announcing a host of new offerings aimed at seeing it gain
some relevance in the social enterprise space. There are a heap of
announcements but the highlights include;
New social analytics software that integrates wikis,...
Larry Franks01/17/12
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In part 1,
I presented an overview of testing on Windows Azure. One thing that I
missed in the original article is that while there’s no testing
framework for Ruby that exposes a web front-end, it’s perfectly possible
to have your test results...
Judah Johns01/16/12
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GlassFish is an open-source application server that can run any Java EE application, providing enterprise level reliability and performance with full clustering and has wide functionality range.
Up until now, GlassFish could be used as a separate server...
