Quality Attributes of the Cloud Infrastructure
This blog post from discusses the most important quality attributes that a cloud infrastructure should have: scalability, availability , reliability, adaptability, security and accountability.
View ArticleCloud is an Exercise in Infrastructure Integration
This blog post explains that when you get down to the architectures involving the Cloud – public, private or hybrid – the issue is really about integrating infrastructure. Cloud computing is forcing...
View ArticlePuppet and Chef for Cloud Computing
This Business Week article explores the background behind Puppet and Chef competition to become the reference tool in Cloud computing software infrastructure management. Both Opscode’s Chef and Puppet...
View ArticleScalarium EC2 Cluster Management
This video provides a short introduction to Scalarium. Scalarium is an automation solution to manage clusters on Amazon EC2 and other cloud providers.
View ArticleChef First Steps
In this blog post, Gareth Rushgrove explains the first steps on how to install a package with Chef. Chef is an open-source systems integration framework built specifically for automating the cloud. It...
View ArticleAnatomy of an Open Source Cloud
Cloud computing is now a valuable and important technology that is fundamentally changing the way we use and develop on-demand applications. As you would expect, Linux and open source provide the...
View ArticleBuilding a Cloud Service on a Cloud Infrastructure
SimpleGeo provides hosted services for location-aware applications, one of which is a cloud spatial database. The competitive features of our database include built-in scaling, high availability and...
View ArticleCIMI Standard Simplifies Cloud Infrastructure Management
The Distributed Management Task Force, the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced...
View ArticleNoOps, DevOps and PaaS
In this article, Lucas Carlson, Adron Hall discuss the relationship between the NoOps, DevOps and PaaS trends in software infrastructure. They start with some definitions. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)...
View ArticleWho Needs Clouds? HA in Your Datacenter
Building highly available services can be a challenge. At Braintree, we value simplicity, open source and cheap commodity hardware. While many companies attempt to achieve high-availability through...
View ArticleVirtualization Security in Cloud Computing
Bringing VMs (virtual machines) onto the cloud has become increasingly popular. Recent years have seen great advancements in both cloud computing and virtualization. On one hand there is the ability to...
View ArticleEmerging Cloud Developments: 3 Top Contenders
By the end of 2014, U.S. companies will spend more than $13 billion on the cloud. That’s according to a recent Forbes article, which also notes the global market for cloud hardware is predicted to...
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