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| Migrating JDA to the Cloud |
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| With Burstorm’s Help JDA Deploys Its Private Cloud At Layered Tech | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| This story describes JDA's decision to move it's private cloud offering to Layered Tech, and Burstorm's role in the selection process. | |
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| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
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| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
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| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| Is the Cloud Broken? |
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| And a Look at How a Second Generation Cloud Provider Offers a Solution | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The underlying architecture chosen by first-generation cloud providers borrows heavily from the server consolidation and virtualization era. The major difference is that the pools of compute cores are now being deployed as public-facing services, versus running the previous generation of siloed applications. Unfortunately, the resulting inefficiencies prevent full realization of the cloud promise of truly low-cost, high-performing, elastic computing. In response, Joyent has emerged as a second generation provider, rethinking fundamental cloud architecture, and ushering in the era of what they call “Smart Computing.” | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Migrating JDA to the Cloud |
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| With Burstorm’s Help JDA Deploys Its Private Cloud At Layered Tech | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| This story describes JDA's decision to move it's private cloud offering to Layered Tech, and Burstorm's role in the selection process. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Photographic Creativity Meets Business in the Cloud |
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| ShootQ’s Customers Have Collected More Than $144 Million Through It’s SaaS Solution Hosted on the Joyent Cloud. | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| The more visible examples of creativity often involve stories of genius. Whether staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, appreciating the complexity of sending a man to the moon, or admiring an Ansel Adams blackand-white landscape, we often associate pure genius at work in creating these masterpieces. And yet, creative inspiration and delivery don’t need to be so grand: Any mother who on the spot thinks of a clever way to distract her toddler knows this to be true. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Entertainment Insurance Gets Set in the Cloud |
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| How a husband and wife team built a multmillion-dollar business that leverages Joyent’s cloud to bring new levels of automation to a very challenging insurance industry vertical. | |
| by Larry Aiken | |
| With all the numerous details that go into creating a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, calling the insurance agent to get a policy is often a producer’s have-to-have-it-today, last-minute call. Unfortunately, delivering insurance quotes for entertainment has always been a challenge to automate, meaning most players take at least three days to respond. This created an opportunity for entrepreneurs Andee Abad and Brad Hodges from the Truman Van Dyke Company and New Empire Entertainment Services, Inc. to step in and deliver an upgrade to the insurance industry, bringing new levels of automation and delivering same-day entertainment insurance quotes. They didn’t have the time, money or interest to build their own IT infrastructure. Instead, they choose Joyent’s cloud to play a starring role. | |
| read the full story >> | |
| Facilitating Brand Ambassadors at Facebook Scale |
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| Context Optional Enables Brands to Socialize, While Joyent Provides the Underlying Cloud Infrastructure | |
| by David Macias & Vince Vasquez | |
| A key to becoming relevant in the world of social media is to develop brand ambassadors, people who will enthusiastically promote your brand to their friends. However, building brand ambassadors is no slam dunk. A technology-enabled service provider like Context Optional can work with your brand marketing team to develop engaging social media campaigns, including the building of Facebook applications. In parallel, a cloud computing provider such as Joyent can deliver the underlying infrastructure to enable the campaigns that go viral to scale at Facebook scale. | |
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| The Cloud in HP’s Cloud (Part 2): HP Discover, the Enterprise and AWS Cloud |
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| January 09 2013 |
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| Last month I attended HP Discover (disclosure: my participation was funded by Ivy World). The IT war already started however HP stands still not taking initiatives and real risks as true leaders should take. At the three-day conference I learned why some companies don’t last and why this IT giant is at a great risk of losing in this new era IT battle. This is a story of a lasting company that might have already lost. |
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| Newvem Introduces Its “Cloud Smart Meter” iOS App for iPhones and iPads |
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| November 05 2012 |
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| Newvem is proud to announce the release of our first iOS application. The “Cloud Smart Meter,” for AWS, is a native iPad and iPhone application that enables chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers to gain clear visibility into their AWS costs, risks, and assets while collaborating with their teams and managing their clouds from anywhere and at any time.
With CIO and IT managers increasingly using mobile devices to manage and monitor their day to day tasks, Newvem’s “Cloud Smart Meter” gives cloud professionals much-needed bottom-line visibility and key performance indicators to manage, collaborate, and track your cloud usage. Together with Newvem Analytics, “Cloud Smart Meter” analyzes your cloud usage and reveals insights so that CIOs and IT managers can quickly identify issues such as unexpected trends in costs, operational risks, and inventory as well as act on Newvem‘s recommendations to correct these issues. |
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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| InstaCompute – a pay-per-use IaaS solution from Tata Communications |
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| May 08 2012 |
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| InstaCompute – a pay-per-use IaaS solution from Tata Communications
Gain on-demand, self-service provisioning and scaling over the internet,within minutes. |
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| Specialized Clouds Will Be A Tough Sell |
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| June 27 2011 |
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| NYSE Euronext's new cloud services will open for business July 1, from its Mahwah, N.J., data center, letting companies buy pay-per-use computing with functionality and data honed to the needs of capital markets firms. The service's launch sparked speculation that more clouds will follow that are customized to the specific needs of different industries. |
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| IPv6-only hosting far off; a market for IPv4 addresses is sad, but likely |
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| June 06 2011 |
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| As has been predicted for years, the world is running out of IPv4 addresses.
So what happens now? Well, there are several possibilities, but our prediction is that a brand new market will spring up in second-hand IPv4 addresses. Like the Wild West, it’s going to be lawless and unpredictable for a bit — and sadly the profits will go to the current IPv4 address hogs. |
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| Exploring Cloud Deployment Models in IBM Workload Deployer |
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| May 11 2011 |
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| One of the fundamental tenants of IBM Workload Deployer is a choice of cloud computing deployment models. Starting in v3.0, users will be able to deploy to the cloud using virtual appliances (OVA files), virtual system patterns, or virtual application patterns. The ability to provision plain virtual appliances is a way to rapidly bring your own images, as they currently exist, into the provisioning realm of the appliance. As such, I think the use cases and basis for deciding to use this deployment model are fairly evident. However, when comparing the two patterns-based approaches, virtual system patterns and virtual application patterns, the decision requires a bit more scrutiny |
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| Autonomic Cloud Management Approaches |
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| April 28 2011 |
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| The platform services segment of cloud is multi-faceted… to say the least. Lately, likely spurred on by announcements like IBM Workload Deployer and VMware Cloud Foundry, I have been thinking quite a bit about one of those facets: environment management. To be clear, I’m not talking about management tools for end-users, though that topic is worthy of many discussions. Rather, I’m talking about the autonomic management capabilities for deployed environments. |
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| Enterprise Cloud Myths |
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| March 08 2011 |
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| The slides from Cloudscaling's presentation at the Cloud Connect event where he argues against the notion of ‘enterprise clouds.’ |
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IaaS Builder's Guide - Network Edition  |
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| March 08 2011 |
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| This new technical whitepaper is a follow on to Cloudscaling’s IaaS Builder's Guide and talks at an architectural level about building scalable networking for infrastructure clouds. Infrastructure clouds are complex and challenging engineering problems. Covering the topic in detail would take years and several books. Meanwhile, the best practices and state-of-the-art proceeds apace. This 30 page technical piece goes into some of the details while remaining broad to share information and foment discussion. |
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| IaaS and PaaS: Getting Closer all the Time |
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| January 04 2011 |
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| Two of the pillars of cloud computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), are showing some interesting trends as cloud providers adapt to meet the needs of customers. Over the coming year, we may see these familiar models evolving into something new since the ideal solution for most enterprises is not one approach or the other but some combination of both. |
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| Cloud Computing Tips From NASA's CTO |
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| January 02 2011 |
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| NASA’s Nebula Cloud Computing Platform has gotten a lot of attention from agencies looking to move into the cloud. Chris Kemp, the Chief Technology Officer for IT at NASA, spoke with Federal News Radio about his agency’s use of the cloud and how that has morphed over the years. Initially, the Nebula cloud was developed to get NASA’s thousands of public-facing websites all on the same platform. However, the agency also realized it could use the cloud as an infrastructure-as-a-service offering for compute and storage. Kemp said this is the area that has really gained traction at the agency. Using the cloud in this way has also helped NASA with efficiency. Kemp said typical utilization of infrastructure is 20 percent but Nebula allows NASA to run at 80-90 percent efficiency. |
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| Cloud Innovators: Netflix Strategy Reflects Google Philosophy |
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| November 23 2010 |
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| Recently Netflix announced something incredible: their 24x7x365 video-on-demand streaming service, the largest of its kind in the world, had moved from their own datacenters onto Amazon Web Services EC2. Randy talks to the Cloud Architect at Netflix, Adrian Cockcroft, about why Netflix chose to take this route, examining business drivers, and asking what they would tell others who would like to follow in their footsteps. |
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| Cloud Computing Overview |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper addresses potential business concerns and prevalent misperceptions of cloud computing and offers interested businesses concrete advice for making informed decisions. Finally, this paper broadly describes the cloud computing architecture that Joyent offers in the Smart technologies. |
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| Joyent Smart Architecture for Cloud Computing |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper examines the broad architectural differences in cloud computing products, the drawbacks to more generic approaches in cloud delivery, and the Joyent philosophy of constructing cloud computing infrastructures. The paper then describes the Joyent Smart Technologies cloud architecture from server and operating system through data center and software development platform. |
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| Joyent Smart Technology Datasheet |
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| July 19 2010 |
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| A two-page overview of the Joyent Smart Technology stack providing information on SmartMachines, SmartDataCenter, and SmartPlatform. |
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| Joyent Cloud Hosting Services Datasheet |
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| July 19 2010 |
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| A two-page overview of the Joyent hosting services with pricing information, background on our physical data centers, and a comparison with Amazon EC2. |
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| Revisiting EC2 Instance IDs |
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| February 12 2010 |
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| Updates related to the significance of internal Amazon EC2 resource IDs, and the statistics we can infer from them. |
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| Payload Descriptor For Cloud Computing: An Update |
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| January 27 2010 |
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| Without a universal way to describe and evaluate payloads, a liquid marketplace for cloud capabilities may not be possible without significant changes to the design of applications, data center infrastructure, and the Internet itself. Here is a much better proposal for what is needed to allow for simpler real-time selection of cloud infrastructure. |
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| Graduating Cloud to the Enterprise: Infrastructure-as-a-Service |
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| January 20 2010 |
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| Companies large and small added Cloud Computing to their IT agenda in the last year. After making early inroads into enterprise, Cloud providers are asked to answer some tough questions. Here is an analysis of the key hurdles they are confronted with. |
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| Predicting Costs on Amazon Web Services |
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| August 29 2011 |
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| Learn how-to predict costs quickly and accurately. The Senior Technical Evangelist at Amazon presents his 5Ms model, gives specific application examples, and then prices the applications using the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. |
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| Supply Chain Management Migrates to the Cloud Via the Channel |
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| April 12 2011 |
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| Joseph King, SVP JDA Managed Services, discussed how JDA selected Layered Tech as its cloud provider and Burstorm's role in this selection process. |
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| Randy Bias dumps on enterprise clouds |
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| March 30 2011 |
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| Randy Bias, CTO and co-founder of cloud consulting firm Cloudscaling, joins Cloud Cover TV to share his thoughts on "enterprise clouds." Spoiler alert: he thinks they're doomed to failure. They also discuss Cisco's purchase of NewScale and the new "dedicated instances" from Amazon Web Services. |
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| Enterprise Cloud Myths |
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| March 08 2011 |
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| The Founder of Cloudscaling, Randy Bias, argues against the notion of ‘enterprise clouds.’ Unfortunately, one point of confusion is the term “enterprise cloud.” When some people hear that term “enterprise cloud”, they think ‘private cloud’ or a ‘cloud for enterprises’. What it means is an infrastructure cloud built using ‘enterprise computing’, not ‘cloud computing’ techniques. Here is a way you can test if an infrastructure cloud, public/private or internal/external, is built using enterprise computing instead of cloud computing: It has more than 2 ‘brand name’ enterprise vendor’s products; allows for complex networks and routing topologies; focuses on allowing migration of unchanged (‘legacy’) applications from existing enterprise datacenters; has an expensive price tag; doesn’t take credit cards, instead requiring contracts and monthly invoices; provides you an arbitrary ‘pool’ of ‘resources’ to carve up any way you want. In this keynote Randy arguing that these ‘enterprise clouds’, regardless of whether they are public or private, are currently losing against the non-enterprise clouds. He provide some great real-world data points about why this is. |
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| Strata 2011: Data Without Limits |
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| February 02 2011 |
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| Strata 2011: Data Without Limits with the CTO at Amazon.com. |
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| Cloud Computing in PHP With the Amazon Web Services |
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| December 20 2010 |
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| Learn how to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) including the Elastic Compute Cloud, the Simple Storage Service, and the Simple Database Service to create a scalable application in PHP. This presentation shows how easy and fun it is to build and run an application in the cloud. |
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| The Promise of OpenStack |
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| November 18 2010 |
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| The CTO at Rackspace, John Engates, discusses OpenStack and Cloud Computing. |
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| High Performance Computing on AWS |
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| November 15 2010 |
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| The CTO, Werner Vogels, and Sr Business Development Manager, Deepak Singh, at Amazon Web Services discuss how businesses and researchers can easily fulfill their high performance computational requirements with the added benefit of ad-hoc provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing. |
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| Introducing Burstorm |
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| October 25 2010 |
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| Burstorm CEO Brandon Abbey and CTSO Edward Wustenhoff talk about the challenges companies face trying to match their (often unknown requirements) to the dizzying number of potential cloud supppliers, and how Burstorm can assist in this process. |
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| The GM at Microsoft on Windows Azure |
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| October 15 2010 |
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| The GM of Windows Azure at Microsoft, Douglas Hauger, discusses pricing, SQL Azure and what Microsoft is doing to make things easier for Azure customers. |
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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IaaS Builder's Guide - Network Edition |
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| March 08 2011 |
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| This new technical whitepaper is a follow on to Cloudscaling’s IaaS Builder's Guide and talks at an architectural level about building scalable networking for infrastructure clouds. Infrastructure clouds are complex and challenging engineering problems. Covering the topic in detail would take years and several books. Meanwhile, the best practices and state-of-the-art proceeds apace. This 30 page technical piece goes into some of the details while remaining broad to share information and foment discussion. |
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| Cloud Computing Overview |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper addresses potential business concerns and prevalent misperceptions of cloud computing and offers interested businesses concrete advice for making informed decisions. Finally, this paper broadly describes the cloud computing architecture that Joyent offers in the Smart technologies. |
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| Joyent Smart Architecture for Cloud Computing |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper examines the broad architectural differences in cloud computing products, the drawbacks to more generic approaches in cloud delivery, and the Joyent philosophy of constructing cloud computing infrastructures. The paper then describes the Joyent Smart Technologies cloud architecture from server and operating system through data center and software development platform. |
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| Joyent Smart Technology Datasheet |
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| July 19 2010 |
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| A two-page overview of the Joyent Smart Technology stack providing information on SmartMachines, SmartDataCenter, and SmartPlatform. |
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| Joyent Cloud Hosting Services Datasheet |
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| July 19 2010 |
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| A two-page overview of the Joyent hosting services with pricing information, background on our physical data centers, and a comparison with Amazon EC2. |
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| Scaling Your Internet Business |
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| May 15 2009 |
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| This document describes how to grow a web-based Internet business with a focus on using GoGrid cloud computing infrastructure to achieve maximum scale. It provides high level descriptions of what scalability is, how web applications scale, how cloud computing helps, and why GoGrid is uniquely positioned to help businesses succeed. |
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| Amazon Web Services Service Health Dashboard |
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| April 25 2011 - Amazon | ||||
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| Where to start with public cloud computing |
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| April 05 2011 - ComputerWorld | ||||
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| Model N Selects Layered Technologies to Provide Virtual Environment for its SaaS-based Revenue Management Applications |
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| March 07 2011 - PRWeb | ||||
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| Amazon Web Services Opens Tokyo Cloud Computing Centre |
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| March 04 2011 - ITProPortal | ||||
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| Storage Guardian launches metered cloud computing service for small business |
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| March 04 2011 - eChannel Line | ||||
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| Amazon extends remote computing to Japan |
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| March 03 2011 - Network World | ||||
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| Amazon to provide 'formation' cloud computing |
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| March 01 2011 - InfoWorld | ||||
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| Storage Guardian Introduces Pay-As-You-Compute Model in the Cloud |
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| February 27 2011 - ChannelPro SMB | ||||
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| Silver lining for HiberniaEvros with €1.6m cloud computing initiative |
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| February 18 2011 - IrishTimes.com | ||||
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| Azure now has 31,000 customers |
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| February 02 2011 - The Seattle Times | ||||
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| Cloudy Infrastructure the Top CIO Priority in 2011 |
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| January 31 2011 - IT Jungle | ||||
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| IBM opens Canadian cloud computing center |
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| January 31 2011 - NEBS | ||||
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| CSC To Offer New 'Cloud-In-A-Box' For Corporate Customers |
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| January 31 2011 - Wall Street Journal | ||||
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| Verizon To Continue Rapid Cloud Ramp |
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| January 20 2011 - InformationWeek | ||||
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| Rackspace Launches Cloud Infrastructure in Europe |
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| January 19 2011 - Business Wire | ||||
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| Amazon.com Service Aims to Simplify Management of Websites, Applications |
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| January 19 2011 - Bloomberg | ||||
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| GoGrid Private Cloud Uses Public Cloud Resources to Dynamically Expand Capacity |
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| January 19 2011 - eWeek.com | ||||
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| Rackspace, Amazon Butt Heads Over Cloud Support |
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| January 13 2011 - CRN | ||||
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| NephoScale Adds More Control to Cloud Computing with New IaaS Platform |
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| January 12 2011 - PRweb.com | ||||
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| Rackspace accelerates clouds with Akamai |
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| January 12 2011 - Channel Register | ||||
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