Category Archives: virtualisation

the process of convert physical environments to virtual environments

hosting for everyone

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OVH now offer hosting packages for almost anyone using almost every hypervisor !

vps

entry level dedicated

enterprise dedicated

mini cloud

DIY cloud (using your choice of  - kvm, openvz, proxmox, vmw, xen)

virtual rack

Amazon SES Management Console

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Amazon have announced the immediate availability of the Management Console for Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) – AWS’s highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers.

The Amazon SES Management Console is a simple and intuitive web-based user interface for Amazon SES that allows you to do the following with a few clicks of your mouse:

  • Check your sending quota and usage
  • See your Amazon SES bounce, complaint, and rejection metrics over time
  • Verify sender email addresses
  • Send both formatted and raw test emails
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UShareSoft UForge

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It seems that UShareSoft UForge is the new rPath! UForge is an Adobe AIR app that lets you create CentOS or Ubuntu software appliances and VMs (with packages of your choice such as alfresco cms and apache httpd) for use on your own (cloud.com, Cloud Stack, Eucalyptus, VMware, Xen) clouds  !

they even have pre-built some appliances for Jaspersoft, SpagoServer, Talend etc :
and a paid for OAS service:

adobe air uforge builder app uforge vm builder

CloudStack IAAS Cloud Software Platform

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CloudStack IAAS Cloud Software Platform (from Citrix) includes

  • Multi-Tenant cloud computing platform
  • Compatible with Commodity or Enterprise Components
  • Broad Hypervisor Support (Xenserver, KVM, VMware vSphere)
  • Scalable Architecture (manage thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests)
  • High Availability configurations to provide automatic fail-over for virtual machines
  • Easy-to-Use AJAX-enabled web interface
  • Configurable to deploy public, private and hybrid clouds
  • Virtual Networking to segment network traffic into VLANs
  • Robust API
  • Amazon EC2 Compatibility layer
  • Written in Java for proven reliability
  • Ability to define service level definitions with specific resource footprints
  • Open Source, available under the GPL version 3
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