John Esposito12/01/11
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A few days ago Cisco announced their new Global Cloud Index, offering impressive statistics on data center traffic and ambitious analysis of cloud trends.Their own summary is a little complex (complete with two footnotes): The Cisco Cloud Index
covers three...
Jeff Dickey12/01/11
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This a follow-up to my first post on CloudFlare. This will make more sense if you read that one first.
John from CloudFlare was kind enough to invite me (well, technically I
kind of invited myself) down to the CloudFlare offices. Conveniently
located...
Alex Tkachman12/01/11
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Good news for Java developers! Now you can build applications in Jelastic cloud instead of building them locally and uploading WAR archives.
What are my benefits you may ask? First of all, it is faster and takes less traffic and here is why: package files...
Greg Duncan12/01/11
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With the release of the 30th post today, Cloud on Your Terms Part 30 of 30: Certification Tips To Get Your Career Ready For The Cloud, I thought it a good time to highlight this IT focused Cloud series...
Source: My Thoughts On IT… - The Cloud on Your...
John Esposito11/30/11
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One of Azure's selling points is the Windows Azure Marketplace, which Microsoft sees through some pretty grand spectacles (pdf).Several practical case studies are available, but the general direction seems to be something like where both cloud and Big Data...
Jeff Dickey11/30/11
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I switched my blog over to use CloudFlare
today. I'll be honest, most of the reason for trying it out was
curiosity into what it was exactly. My site handled the load from being
on the top of ycombinator on a single heroku dyno without wincing, so to
...
Brian Gracely11/29/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.23 - "Going Mobile...."
Date: November 28, 2011
Guests:
Brian Katz, Director of Mobility @ sanofi-aventis (@bmkatz; blog - http://www.ascrewsloose.com/) Tal Klein, Director of Technical Marketing - Citrix (@VirtualTal; blog -...
John Esposito11/29/11
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From Brady Gaster comes a Microsoft wedding that has occurred before, but now in a newer and cooler mix.Kinect tracks people; Azure talks to everything, everywhere. Why not let Kinect talk to you anywhere -- about people near your Kinect? And for good...
John Esposito11/28/11
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One of the cloud's great advantages is its arbitrary degree of abstraction: even developers don't need to worry about how a particular cloud treats its data internally.In some cases, though, less abstraction is needed, because more direct control over data is...
David Pell11/28/11
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Enrico Signoretti recently published an article on OpenStack that has received a fair amount of attention on Twitter. The article is titled "OpenStack is overstretched" and consists of Signoretti's reflections on the size of the OpenStack project...
Brian Swan11/27/11
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One feature of the scaffolds that are in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP is that all rely on the Web Platform Installer
to install PHP when a project is deployed. This is great until I want
my application deployed with my locally customized installation of...
Sean Hull11/27/11
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The term clustering is often used loosely in the context of
enterprise databases. In relation to MySQL in the cloud you can
configure:Master-master active/passiveSharded MySQL DatabaseNDB ClusterMaster-Master active/passive replication Also
sometimes...
Ben Kepes11/26/11
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The
advent of the Internet (actually the advent of software used by the
general populace) has create an entire new bunch of folks with ulcers
caused by the worries around password management. Passwords it seem are
both the bane of our existence and,...
Sean Hull11/26/11
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Believe it or not you can actually start playing around with virtual
servers that are as real and powerful as the physical servers you're
already used to deploying. And you can do it for literally pennies per
month.Signup for an Amazon account or use...
Brian Gracely11/26/11
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At VMworld, I had lunch with an Enterprise CIO who told me that they had
just written a high 8-figure check to Microsoft for a new ELA. While
part of this included Server-side licensing for business applications
and databases, the more interesting piece...
Cody Powell11/25/11
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I am so impressed with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
service that I just don't see myself worrying over hosting or
colocating servers ever again. It's cheap, it's...
Sean Hull11/25/11
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Jeff Barr's book on AWS is a very readable howto and a quick way to
get started with EC2, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch and SimpleDB. It is
short on theory, but long on all the details of really getting your
hands dirty. Learn how to:get started using...
David Pell11/25/11
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Great news for developers interested in utilizing cloud technologies! ActiveState has announced that their Stackato Micro Cloud will remain free to the developing community after the Beta period ends.Stackato, a Platform-as-a-Service solution, is built on...
Kathiravelu Pra...11/24/11
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We tried to upload a payload.zip for
the autoscaled load balanced system, with the startup-parameters for
our Application Server (using the commands given below). There seems to
be some issue for the current Amazon Autoscaling API, that prevents us
...
Sean Hull11/23/11
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For most large web applications, uptime is of foremost importants.
Any outage can be seen by customers as a frustration, or opportunity to
move to a competitor. What's more for a site that also includes
e-commerce, it can mean real lost sales.Zero...
Eric Berg11/22/11
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In the past couple of months, cloud computing has come to be lauded
as a driver for U.S. jobs and economic growth. This past week, however,
put the momentum of cloud adoption into a new, broader scale. In the
news this week cloud service leaders like...
Eric Berg11/22/11
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CIO.com recently ran an interesting story on public vs. private clouds and the importance of cloud security. The article quotes Chris Swan, UBS’ security CTO,
on the limitations of the public cloud in the enterprise. Swan predicts
the emergence of...
David Pell11/21/11
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As access to powerful cloud computing solutions increases, you may find yourself asking if moving your project to a cloud-based development environment is a good idea. In a recent article at CM Crossroads, Leslie Sachs offers a useful reflection on the...
David Pell11/21/11
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If you've recently found yourself in need of your own supercomputer, you'll be interested to know that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added the Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (or CC2 after the cc2.8xlarge API name) to its Cluster Compute Family. The...
Sean Hull11/20/11
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IOPs are an attempt to standardize comparison of disk speeds across
different environments. When you turn on a computer, everything must be
read from disk, but thereafter things are kept in memory. However
applications typically read and write to...
