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...
Abhishek Kumar11/20/11
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Project/Example Site: http://gae-flat-web.appspot.com
Host Your Site on Google AppEngine in 7 Easy Steps:
Register any $App at Google ApEngine using your Gmail Account
{as if $App is you Application Name giving you url like...
Eric Berg11/19/11
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Last week we invited several CIOs and IT leaders in the Bay Area to
hear first-hand from two of our fantastic customers who use Okta to
better manage their IT in the cloud. This was the second in a series of
events we have organized to engage with...
Ben Kepes11/18/11
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Recently a couple of announcements caught my eye that really speak to our contention that Cloud Computing democratizes IT. As we said in a previous CloudU
report, Cloud Computing is facilitating a seismic shift in terms of
business...
Mitch Pronschinske11/18/11
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IBM recently released its second-quarter earnings report, citing
impressive gains (Q2 revenues rose 12 percent to $26.7B). While the
hardware side of IBM’s business is undoubtedly important, it’s
the company’s ability to pivot to emerging market...
Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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Want to see what a full-fledged agile-oriented project managment tool is like? Well, ScrumWorks Pro now requires virtually no upfront cost (in time or money) to run immediately on a cloud instance. That's because CollabNet just released the tool suite as...
Brian Gracely11/17/11
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The Cloudcast - Eps.22 - “Live from CA World with Andi Mann”
Date: November 13, 2011
Guest: Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions @ CA Technologies (Blog: http://pleasediscuss.com/andimann/ & Twitter: http://twitter.com/andimann)
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Mitch Pronschinske11/17/11
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A new CC2 instance was unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week. In addition to their previously released Cluster GPU instances, AWS will begin selling another type under their Cluster Compute category called Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2 for...
