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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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IPv6 and the Internet of Things
Nick Hardiman explains why the switch to IPv6 will further enable the world of connected devices.
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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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Cloud revolution has borne fruit, along with a few bad apples
Nick Hardiman considers the results, so far, of the cloud revolution in IT. What are the main benefits, and what are the accompanying problems?
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Will the Internet of Things be the end of cloud computing?
Nick Hardiman peers into the future of the Internet of Things. What changes will this evolving model bring?
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Creating storage containers in HP Cloud
This gallery shows the easy steps to creating a storage container in HP Cloud.
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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.
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Getting started with HP Cloud Storage
Nick Hardiman shows you the easy step-by-step to creating storage containers in the HP Cloud.
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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 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.
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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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Creating buckets and objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service
Nick Hardiman illustrates the basic steps to creating buckets and objects in Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
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What small cloud players can offer to compete with the giants
Nick Hardiman looks at the smaller players in the cloud space. What can small companies offer to compete with the likes of Amazon and Rackspace?
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Getting cloud services to the little people: A dilemma for IT
Nick Hardiman looks as the particular dilemma of IT staff in small organizations: cloud service options that help the bottom line vs. the pitfalls of ceding control.
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Railway stairs, IT demand, and cloud services
Nick Hardiman finds a parallel between an annoying daily challenge and one faced by many IT departments as they evolve toward the cloud.
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Security policies need to be updated to include the cloud
Nick Hardiman suggests the ways in which a security policy needs to be updated when your organization moves any systems or applications to the cloud.
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The cloud and the help desk: How is support provided?
Nick Hardiman looks at the cloud from a help desk perspective. Outsourcing support is not a new concept, but how will the advance of the cloud affect customer service issues?
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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...
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Bullet-proof your web service with the right monitoring setup
Nick Hardiman discusses the components of your web service that need to be monitored and what you can learn from the various performance monitors in place.
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Guarding your personal security while living in the cloud
Nick Hardiman takes a look at the threat landscape of our increasing dependence on the cloud as repository for our data and personal information.
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What we mean when we talk about cloud computing
Nick Hardiman takes a look at the many variations on the definition of "cloud computing." Is there any consensus?
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The IEEE's Cloud Computing Initiative: Chair Steve Diamond explains its aims
Nick Hardiman interviewed Steve Diamond, Chair of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative to find out more about its goals for creating a cloud standard.
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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?
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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 ha...
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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.
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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.
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Installing and checking Amazon Auto Scaling and CloudWatch tools
Nick Hardiman details the steps and commands involved in installing and checking Amazon's Auto Scaling and CloudWatch tools.
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Auto-scaling an EC2 service: Creating a new AMI
Nick Hardiman details the steps involved in creating a new Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) as part of using the auto-scaling features for his EC2 service.