October 22, 2013
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Gartner is predicting that by 2017 half of enterprises will have moved to hybrid clouds. Yes, they’re serious. How things change. Only three years ago, the research giant found that most businesses still didn’t get the cloud. They looked at … Continue reading
October 17, 2013
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Businesses have taken to OpenStack, the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud, like ducks to water. Major companies such as PayPal, Intel, and WikiMedia, the group behind Wikipedia, are using OpenStack in their clouds. On October 17, OpenStack’s Havana, the eighth release … Continue reading
October 14, 2013
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On October 17th, Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, will release Ubuntu 13.10, Saucy Salamander. Most people will be interested in the desktop version of Ubuntu 13.10, but more people may actually end up using this latest Ubuntu distribution on the cloud … Continue reading
October 7, 2013
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You could treat your cloud like a data center full of servers with system administrators cracking the whip over them. But that would be wrong. It would also technically and financially foolish. To get the most from your cloud, you … Continue reading
October 2, 2013
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Everyone needs cloud-savvy administrators, but there aren’t enough to go around. Worse still, if someone does come to you and they say they know OpenStack like the back of their hand, how do you know they do? Or, flipping it … Continue reading
September 30, 2013
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Are there too many cloud services? Not really, but it can pretty darn confusing. I have no problem with the three fundamental cloud services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); and Software as a Service (SaaS). … Continue reading