As Cloud Computing continues with its expansion and more and more organizations are using it, you still find technical people unable to define it. In this short article, I’ll try to point out the main elements of to-days Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is a technology enabled service, where it could be located anywhere in the...
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Amazon Cloud enhances its monitoring service with customizable metrics. Now, you can use CloudWatch to set customized application metrics that are critical to your business. The basic monitoring for Amazon EC2, EBS, ELB and RDS are still free of charge while, prices for detailed monitoring are now cheaper! The cost for the customized metrics is...
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A lot of talk has been done about cloud computing and the most cited topics remain security and compliancy in the cloud, and rightly so! However, having experienced a bit of hands-on with Public cloud environments I would like to put security aside for a moment and deal with an equally important risk that...
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Amazon is offering what is called Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) where customers can have their own private cloud within Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure as an isolated setup. The dedicated instance concept adds another milestone towards the security of Cloud computing. With dedicated instance customers can run their instance on a dedicated hypervisor which is physical...
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On March 22, 2011 HP released a press release stating that it’s Converged Infrastructure private cloud solution is attracting large organizations in the healthcare and finance industries. These customers have been relying on HP technology for many years and it comes to no surprise that they trust HP with their critical data and services....
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From time to time I come across analyst reports stating that many mid sized organizations are reluctant to implement virtualization infrastructure and may decide to go for the cloud. So, I decided to share with you a couple of statements that are in favor of this strategy. That is, skipping in-house virtualization and moving...
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