The Enterprise Cloud

Archive: 11-2012

• Amazon Web Services re:Invent Conference: More features, more services, lower prices

  Thoran Rodrigues attended this week’s AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas. Here’s a roundup of the news and announcements from Amazon that will be good for cloud consumers as a whole.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | November 30, 2012, 11:11 AM PST

• Using the power of the cloud as a platform for attack

  The battle between cloud service providers and the criminals who would abuse those services to launch attacks on others is well underway.

  Posted by Selena Frye | November 29, 2012, 10:57 AM PST

• Cloud backup and disaster recovery: The Zetta approach

  Nick Hardiman takes a look at an online backup and recovery system that uses software agents to copy your data directly to a cloud file storage system. Here’s how it works.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | November 28, 2012, 6:00 AM PST

• SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn: High Availability database for cloud data centers

  John Joyner explains how to deploy SQL Server AlwaysOn in a failover cluster without shared storage to achieve high availability SQL.

  Posted by John Joyner | November 21, 2012, 9:00 AM PST

• Getting started with HP Cloud Storage

  Nick Hardiman shows you the easy step-by-step to creating storage containers in the HP Cloud.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | November 20, 2012, 5:57 AM PST

• Anatomy of an SLA: Limitations on what cloud providers will guarantee

  Thoran Rodrigues points out the most important parts of a service level agreement with cloud providers. Make sure you understand the limitations they specify on their responsibilities.

  Posted by Thoran Rodrigues | November 13, 2012, 6:50 AM PST

• How to create and destroy an HP cloud server

  Nick Hardiman gives you the step-by-step procedure for creating and then destroying a cloud server from your HP Cloud account.

  Posted by Nick Hardiman | November 7, 2012, 6:00 AM PST

• Microsoft shares considerations for extending AD into Windows Azure

  John Joyner introduces the concept of running conventional Windows Server VMs with the Active Directory Services role installed in Windows Azure.

  Posted by John Joyner | November 1, 2012, 11:11 AM PDT