August 26, 2013
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Everyone uses virtualization, but almost no one talks about benchmarking it. It’s easy to understand why. It’s hard to do. Fortunately, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), recently released a new benchmark for datacenter-level virtualization, SPECvirt_sc2013. New virtualization benchmark for … Continue reading
August 25, 2013
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Chef and Puppet are great Development/Operations (DevOps) cloud programs. But say you want something even easier, at an even higher level, to set up and manage your cloud. Is there such a program? Well, yes, yes there is: Canonical, best … Continue reading
August 15, 2013
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According to global analyst firm Ovum the cloud poses both real problems and opportunities for identity and access management (IAM). They can say that again! Single-sign on and the cloud: It’s complicated. More >
August 14, 2013
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Businesses love OpenStack. After only three years, OpenStack corporate backers and users now include Cisco, Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, Intel, HP, etc., etc. You get the idea. That’s all very nice and well, but where does OpenStack go from here? … Continue reading
August 1, 2013
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If you really want to make the most of a cloud, you need cloud configuration management software such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef. With these, instead of your system operators sweating over management programs meant for single, standalone servers, they … Continue reading
July 23, 2013
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If you still think the cloud is just so much marketing hot air, RightScale, a cloud management company, has news for you: Almost 50 percent of businesses have already moved at least some applications to the cloud. It’s a cloud, … Continue reading