Archive › April, 2009

Your main tool for the Cloud, YOUR BROWSER — Google Chrome Videos

Google Chrome browser has been gaining share market continuously since its release. Now that IT Professionals across the world are going to use browsers to access their Cloud or Virtual Infrastructure, and less people is needed to download and install applica tion at their desktops, browsers are even more important. In my own opinion, I [...]

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Amazon S3 Explorer Tool — CloudBerry

The people from CloudBerry Lab has done a very good job with its CloudBerry Explorer application. Allowing users to manipulate information and data across platforms. Similar to what Firefox Plugin S3Fox does, but enhanced in functionality. The CloudBerry tool allows you to send data from S3 account 1 to S3 account 2, or S3 to [...]

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Cloud Computing Specific Search Engine

Cloud Computing Search Engine is the place where you will find relevant cloud computing information. Below is the list of the sites that we have included in the google custom search engine. David Cloud Computing Podcast Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson Mike D’s Virtualization Blog Reuven Cohen Blog Cloudy Times Thinking Out Cloud — [...]

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Zmanda partnering with Sun's Cloud?

In the first Sun Microsystems’ press release, where they announced the new cloud offerings in the Cloud Expo 2009, they mentioned Zmanda, the open source backup solution, as their partner for their cloud backup system. Today during a conversation with a Zmanda representative, I inquire about their partnership with Sun’s new cloud system. The company [...]

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Balance Tomcat Servers mod_jk module

Introduction Diagram As you can see in the diagram below you will have one or more apache+mod_jk instances. The installation of apache and mod_jk are outside of the scope of this article. Basically the load balancer will be the first contact of your application and based on your parameters it will choose what tomcat instance [...]

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Security onDemand for the Cloud

With all the hype and variety of products that the cloud is bringing. We have to see the security industry taking part of the “billion” dollar business. Two companies this last week came out with their security version of onDemand Security for the cloud. The companies Cenzic and Fortify came out with their respective version [...]

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Cloud Computing Definition Video — by Salesforce

Another great video for those people looking for definitions. Easy to understand to the point, a little of marketing but not that much. Enjoy your time!

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Transfer your MSSQL Databases to the Cloud

If you are thinking on moving any, some or all of your infrastructure to the cloud, you got to test it and check if it will be reliable, secure and profitable. We all know that moving databases could be a tedious time consuming job. We also know that there are more than one way of [...]

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Cloud Computing — In Plain English by rPath

Good Saturday Morning to everyone. I was reading my morning news and I came across this great video that explains cloud computing. It is for beginners, but is a great way to understand what and how Cloud Computing came to be so famous. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBd14rjcs0]

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Debug a Java application in the Cloud

Introduction Developing Java Applications will mean at some point doing some memory management and memory leak troubleshooting. This does not imply that Java is bad or worst than any other programming language, but we need to be prepared to do this type of testing if the need arise. The cloud has been in many ways [...]

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