The Enterprise Cloud

Archive: 07-2012

• Harness Big Data with Google BigQuery

  Need processing power for your big data? Google’s service called BigQuery allows you to run SQL-like queries against large datasets on a subscription basis.

  Posted by Ian Hardenburgh | July 27, 2012, 8:32 AM PDT

• How DevOps supports the paradigm shift of the cloud

  Guest Contributor Brian Jawalka makes the case for DevOps, an approach that teams developers and operations experts in IT to realize the full benefits of the cloud.

  Posted by Guest Contributor | July 25, 2012, 6:00 AM PDT

• Great management tools can be a catalyst for Azure adoption

  John Joyner illustrates the management tool features of the Windows Azure IaaS platform.

  Posted by John Joyner | July 24, 2012, 1:09 PM PDT

• Charting a course for the cloud: The role of the IEEE

  Nick Hardiman takes a look at the evolving cloud computing standard. Is an industry-wide standard possible? Who has the authority to issue standards?

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | July 23, 2012, 10:19 AM PDT

• AWS auto-scaling: Add notification and test to see what happens

  Nick Hardiman finalizes his demonstration of setting up auto-scaling for an Amazon Web Service by showing you how to add a notification alert and then testing it all to see what happens.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | July 20, 2012, 12:17 PM PDT

• Create your own IaaS platform with open source CloudStack

  Ian Hardenburgh offers an overview of the open source CloudStack solution that allows you to build and manage a highly available and scalable cloud computing platform, now licensed under ASL 2.0.

  Posted by Ian Hardenburgh | July 17, 2012, 12:21 PM PDT

• Testing the limits of cloud scalability: Real-world results

  Thoran Rodrigues describes a recent experience that involved spinning up 70 cloud servers for an intensive data-processing project. Here is what he learned from this real-world experiment.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | July 12, 2012, 12:41 PM PDT

• How to add Cloudwatch monitors to auto-scale your Amazon Web Service

  Nick Hardiman details the steps involved in adding CloudWatch monitors to keep tabs on your AWS performance so that auto-scaling will work properly.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | July 11, 2012, 8:33 AM PDT

• Start using your first Azure IaaS VM in less than 15 minutes

  John Joyner shows you the easy steps to starting up your first Azure IaaS virtual machine. In this example, he deploys a Windows 2008 R2 server image.

  Posted by John Joyner | July 9, 2012, 11:14 AM PDT

• Add an auto-scaling group and policy for Amazon EC2 machines

  Nick Hardiman walks you through the steps of creating an auto-scaling group, as well as creating policies to scale-out and scale-in your Amazon EC2 machines.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | July 9, 2012, 9:00 AM PDT