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ibm.com developerworks cloud series

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The ibm.com developerworks cloud series explores the major types of cloud services and related software that you can use to build Web-scale systems.

In Part 1, learn how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide basic services you can use to deploy and run your applications. The article also discusses how Eucalyptus can be used as an infrastructure to create public or private clouds.

In Part 2, learn about AppScale and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing. Explore the features and architecture of this virtual infrastructure. It’s a great way to test your Google App Engine applications on your local resources or virtualized cloud infrastructures, such as Amazon EC2 or Eucalyptus.

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The 6 Musts of Intelligent System Automation

Friday, January 29th, 2010

The 6 Musts of Intelligent System Automation

“This (free-of-charge) (e)book (from rPath) provides a clear, actionable, step-by-step guide to intelligent automation that embeds knowledge, eliminates routine operations, and frees up strategic resources. It shows how IT can deliver the seemingly contradictory needs for control and flexibility, for stability and change, for better service and cost reduction.”

Andi Mann, VP of research, systems and storage management,
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

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VirtualBox Personal Use INCLUDES use at your office !

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

VirtualBox Personal Use is

when you install the product on one or more PCs yourself and you make use of it (or even your friend, sister and grandmother).

Also, if you install it on your work PC at some large company, this is still personal use.

However, if you are an administrator and want to deploy it to the 500 desktops in your company, this would no longer qualify as personal use.

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OVH Virtual Rack

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

OVH Virtual Rack brings together several virtual servers (no matter how many or there physical location in our datacentre) and connect to a virtual switch within the same private network. Your servers can communicate privately and securely between them (in a dedicated VLAN).

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VMware Player 3 auto recompiles kernel modules

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

VMware Player 3 (finally) auto recompiles kernel modules after you have updated/upgraded your linux kernel !

vmware player 3 kernel updater

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Amazon Elastic Load Balancing

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

AWS Management Console Adds Support for Elastic Load Balancing
AWS has added support for Elastic Load Balancing to the AWS Management Console. Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Now you can use a simple, point-and-click web interface to create and configure load balancers for your Amazon EC2 applications.

Access to the AWS Management Console is provided free of charge at https://console.aws.amazon.com

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VMware ESX 4 requires 64-bit CPUs

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

VMware ESXi 4.0 is certified to run on a broad range of 64-bit hardware. Check the Hardware Compatibility List to ensure that the server model you intend to use is certified to run VMware ESXi 4. For 32-bit hardware support, download the previous version, VMware ESXi 3.5.

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2010 the year of the cloud !

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

2010 is going to be the year of the cloud event at least !

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CloudCamp London 2010-01-21

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

CloudCamp London 21 Jan 2010 is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.

With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.

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Clonezilla Live & SE P2V

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Clonezilla Live & SE P2V
With Clonezilla Live, you first create a system image from the physical server, then use the boot CD to restore the image onto the virtual machine’s hard disk. It’s simple and fast, and it should be useful for software developers, system administrators, and support engineers who want to analyze a system copy while maintaining the original one unchanged (and avoid possible hardware mismatch challenges).

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