Tweet I am impressed with Rackspace donating the code for their compute and object storage platform and creating the OpenStack. There has been a lot of discussion around the need for a cloud storage API standard, and whether or not Amazon should be the base for an cloud computing standard. I think it is a [...]
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Tweet After spending some time last weekend reviewing the exhibitors at the upcoming OSCON – Open Source Convention I noticed a pattern: There is an explosion in database innovation right now I listed seven separate database platforms and tools that are exhibiting at the Open Source Convention. In addition to not listing Schooner Information Technology, [...]
Tweet I was just reviewing the cloud tools offered by Zeus. I was researching Global server Load Balancing (Cloud Balancing) software yesterday and they were on my list. Unfortunately I used an image from their software and neglected to mention them in my post. I just spent the last couple hours reviewing their tools and [...]
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Tweet Linode is a very focused and simple Virtual Private Hosting (VPS) company that delivers some very affordable cloud hosting solutions. I just stumbled across this company, yet they are a 7 year old “cloud” platform with an pretty impressive set of features out of the box: Multiple Linux distributions Create Configuration Profiles which associate [...]
Tweet I am playing with different ways of monetizing my skills and knowledge. I wrote a white paper on how to setup your core email infrastructure in the Amazon cloud. I haven’t spent a lot of time polishing, because I am not a writer. I have spent hundreds of hours polishing the approach. I am [...]
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Tweet Wyse PocketCloud gives you access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine securely from your desktop and your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android devices. Connection Protocols Microsoft RDP protocol VMware View 4.0 connection broker Wyse PocketCloud Security Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) RSA Two-Factor Authentication [...]
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Tweet Tired of sending people to Amazon, Rackspace, or GoGrid. You can now start your own cloud computing provider. TelasticStack allows you to offer your own brand of cloud servers: Turnkey Cloud Platform Deployment Within Days No UpFron Investment Scalable Cloud Server Modern Virtualization Back-End Full Managed Operations They say they have cloud hosting solutions [...]
Tweet Red Hat has been part of the cloud with services like Amazon EC2 since the beginning, because they are a leading open source platform. Not be outdone by other technology providers, Red Hat is offering their own line of cloud computing tools and services. When you choose Red Hat for your cloud, you get: [...]
Tweet DARPA wants your help to change the way we approach computing. Everything today depends on computers, and to meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher energy efficiency, ease of programmability, system dependability, and security, revolutionary new research, development, and design will be essential to enable new generations of advanced computing system capabilities [...]
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Tweet One trend I’m seeing more of lately, is the migration of existing open-source technologies into the clouds, transforming them into Software as a Service As the cloud stack keep evolving you see some excellent examples of cloud service providers doing one thing, and doing it well. So you don’t have to. I stumbled across [...]
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Tweet I was reminded today that nothing is permanent in the cloud. I accidentally terminated my primary database instance running on Amazon EC2. 319 databases, 100 GB of data running on SQL Server 2008. I was removing 2 decommissioned server instances, I selected both of them and clicked terminate. About 60 seconds later I started [...]
Tweet I was looking for an open source image gallery solution for a friend the other night. Tonight after reading The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise. I got into researching a couple of other areas of open source or cloud tools that I can add to my IT cloud stack. I came across Panda, [...]
Tweet I came across a cloud backup tool the other day called backupify. It runs in the cloud and backs up your cloud. Very cool. backupify is pretty easy to setup. It acts like most social aggregators like Friendfeed, however it then backs up your data rather than syndicating it or providing a single feed. [...]
Tweet I strongly believe in the cloud, and more specifically in Amazon‘s approach to cloud computing. I constantly battle people on my decision to use the cloud for my core IT infrastructure. It allows me to scale my infrastructure as needed and gave a completely new face to my IT strategy and operations. I can [...]
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Tweet We were trying to finish up a major email blast tonight and all of a sudden our main blast server stopped working. Then I immediately got a flood of email alerts saying all of our live servers were down. I submitted a trouble ticket to Amazon EC2. I have Gold Support package lately with [...]
Tweet I came across a post about a new web service. It is a cloud backup tool. Something I have talked about needing several times. Handy backup utility for all my favorite cloud based applications. BackupMy.Net is a handy tool that does this for you. They provide cloud backup services for: Top Email Platforms (Gmail, [...]
Tweet I started doing some research on cloud computing a couple weeks ago. I have been watching the Google search results for my name to see how long it took for this research to float up in my profile. It showed up at #28 now. I have seen other pages too show up below that. [...]
Tweet I am a big advocate for educating politicians and our leaders on cloud computing and what it can do to save money and open up our government for more involvement by the public at large. I am amazed at how many leaders are already in the know about cloud computing. I was just reading [...]
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Tweet I have had several talks with small businesses about their comapnies infrastructure and what the next steps are. When I bring up cloud computing, the first question I get is in regards to security. How secure is our data, our apps? Valid questions and cloud service providers have a lot of proving to do [...]
Tweet Google continued maturing their cloud offerings for the enterprise world yesterday with a Google Apps LDAP integration tool. Google Apps Directory Sync now lets businesses and schools with an LDAP user directory system transition more quickly and smoothly to Google Apps. Instead of manually maintaining a separate user account directory in Google Apps, this [...]
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