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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.