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The big data challenge: Extracting actual business value
You've got the tools and the power of the cloud to capture big data, but figuring out what you want from it and how to extract it is the final, crucial challenge.
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How the cloud fits into the big data technology stack
Nick Hardiman peers into the technology stack that makes big data work.
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Cloud computing and the rise of big data
The cloud enables big data processing for enterprises of all sizes by relieving a number of problems, but there is still complexity in extracting the business value from a sea of d...
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Softlayer: The bare metal IaaS provider
Softlayer is an IBM company that provides IaaS. What makes them different from Amazon?
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Choosing a cloud provider: Bringing business and IT together
As the public cloud industry matures, more companies will face the challenge of choosing the right cloud provider. It's not a decision to be made in isolation.
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Managing the mixed cloud: Red Hat's Open Hybrid Cloud
Red Hat is building tools to help enterprises make the transition to the cloud by concentrating on interoperability and centralized management.
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Network emulation for the cloud
For those considering a move from the LAN to the public cloud, network emulation offers a new way to test performance.
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How to create load-balanced VMs on the GoGrid IaaS platform
This step-by-step procedure shows you how to create an enterprise-level web service with high availability on the GoGrid platform.
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Getting to know GoGrid IaaS
In an increasingly crowded IaaS market, GoGrid competes with cloud behemoths like Amazon, Rackspace, and HP. Here's an overview of sign-up, VM creation, and features.
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First steps with a brand new Ubuntu virtual machine
Here is a quick how-to on setting up a brand new Ubuntu VM and adding a web server. Ubuntu is the most popular open source OS for cloud deployments.
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Try SafeGDocs to encrypt your stored Google documents
For those storing lots of documents in the Google cloud, a little extra protection is available with add-ons that encrypt and decrypt docs.
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Inside an IaaS data center: Providing the brawn for your company's brain
What goes into an enterprise-class IaaS provider? Take a look inside a brand new data center.
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Quick tip: Navigate AWS EC2 with file, cat, and sudo yum update
To take advantage of Amazon's best pricing on EC2 machines, you must learn the basics of the Linux command line. Here are a few more commands and tips to help you on your way.
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The evolution of the CMS: From SGML to the cloud
Take a trip down memory lane with Nick Hardiman, who looks at how far the Content Management System has come over the years.
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Quick tip: Command line basics for Amazon Web Services users
If you want to take advantage of the very lowest prices on Amazon EC2, Linux/UNIX users are in luck. If you're not an expert, you'll want to brush up your command line skills.
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Modifying AWS CloudFormation templates: Polish your code
Nick Hardiman shows a step-by-step example of how to modify an AWS CloudFormation template -- the last part of building your own SaaS on Amazon's platform.
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Anatomy of an AWS CloudFormation template
Nick Hardiman explains what you can expect to see as part of an AWS CloudFormation template. You can modify the template files to customize your web service.
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Use AWS CloudFormation to create a highly available cluster
Nick Hardiman shows you the step-by-step procedure to creating a high-availability cluster for a SaaS app using the AWS CloudFormation template.
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First steps to SaaS with AWS CloudFormation templates
Nick Hardiman explains how to use Amazon's CloudFormation templates to build the IaaS layer for his example SaaS that he wants to take to market.
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How to be a SaaS vendor on a shoestring with Amazon Web Services
Nick Hardiman outlines the steps of taking an example SaaS solution to the world by taking advantage of AWS CloudFormation templates.
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Cloud-controlled Wi-Fi: Growing a network with SaaS
Nick Hardiman looks at one of the players in the cloud-controlled Wi-Fi space. For SMBs, it's possible to grow a global network and manage it from the cloud.
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Managing your databases in the cloud: How Cloudant does it
Cloudant provides database-as-a-service -- something that some companies may want to consider for management help and cloud-size scaling ability. Nick Hardiman describes how DBaaS ...
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BYOD, the cloud, and backups: Meeting the data-everywhere challenge
Nick Hardiman explains how Asigra is meeting the enterprise challenge of backing up data when it exists on multiple devices, in the cloud, and on the network.
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What's happening at Cloud Expo Europe
Nick Hardiman attended Cloud Expo Europe in London this week. Here is his take on what was on offer.
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How to sign up, create a VM, and destroy it on Rackspace
Are you shopping around for cloud infrastructure? Nick Hardiman takes you through the basic Rackspace sign-up and virtual machine creation process.
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Rackspace: An overview of a major cloud player
Nick Hardiman looks at what Rackspace is all about. What does it mean by Fanatical Support, and is OpenStack the platform of the future for cloud management?
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An introduction to the HP Cloud
NIck Hardiman offers this illustrated introduction to the the HP Cloud service.
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How to set up an HP Cloud account
Nick Hardiman introduces the new HP Cloud Service and shows you how to get started by opening an account.
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How to get started with Amazon's Simple Storage Service
Nick Hardiman shows you the step-by-step to creating buckets and objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
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Comprehensive monitoring enables comprehensive support
Nick Hardiman addresses the complex business-IT environment and the different kinds of monitoring that it requires -- from the cloud application itself to the infrastructure that i...