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Increasing your AWS EC2 root partition (Windows)
In: Cloud Computing
15 Jan 2010As we now have instances which can be booted from EBS (hurray for that), you’re root is also increased to 30gb. But sometimes this still isn’t enough. Here is how you can increase your root partition drive using the AWS Console. login to your AWS Console Go to [Instances], right click your instance and select [...]
New Powerful Amazon EC2 Boot Features
In: Cloud Computing
4 Dec 2009Yesterday Amazon announced some cool new feature on their EC2 platform: Boot your instance from EBS (Amazon Block Store). Your root partition of your image will be EBS, so this will give you the ability to: fine-grain control of software and data configuration increase the size of the local disk up to 1TB in size [...]
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- Tags: Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing interview with Whitfield Diffie
In: Cloud Computing
2 Dec 2009Whitfield Diffie is a cryptographer and one of the pioneers of Public Key Cryptography. In 1976 he introduced a new method of distributing Cryptographic keys solving one of the fundamental problems of Cryptography….key distribution. This method became known as the Diffie-Helman Key Exchange (D-H…. you might have heard about it). Technology Review had an interview [...]
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- Tags: Cloud Computing, Security
Google Chrome OS
In: Cloud Computing
20 Nov 2009Yesterday, Google presented their Google Chrome OS. This OS is all about the Web. It all works inside the browser (which is Chrome). All application’s you use will be on the internet, so no worries anymore about program updates. Let’s see A video that can explain it better: let’s see the OS in action. It [...]
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- Tags: Cloud Computing
SharePoint access for live@edu
5 Nov 2009Live@edu is a service that Microsoft offers for students. As a student you can direct your IT administrator to this site. He can register your school, so you can take advantage of the services that Microsoft offers like: Exchange Online (10GB) Sky Drive (25 GB) Office Live Workspaces But now Microsoft is announcing the addition [...]
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- Tags: Cloud Computing, SharePoint
Visualizing Life in the Cloud
In: Cloud Computing
2 Nov 2009A nice picture, visualizing our Life in the Cloud. Just click on the picture below to see the whole picture.
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Nimsoft Cloud Monitoring
In: Cloud Computing
23 Oct 2009Below an interview with Gary Read, the CEO of Nimsoft. They are into monitoring solutions. One of these solutions is a Cloud Monitoring tool, capable of monitoring Amazon, Google App, Rackspace. This is part III of the interview, in which he shows a demo of the product. scobleizer: thx for the tip Part I is [...]
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- Tags: Cloud Computing
a colleague of mine made a super blog post about an operational, near real time, BI platform for monitoring packages in a package sorter for the Dutch TNT Post Pakketservice. Go check it out here
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- Tags: Cloud Computing, SQL Server
SMTP enabled for BPOS Worldwide
In: BPOS|Cloud Computing
2 Sep 2009According to the BPOSitive blog, SMTP is now enabled for BPOS. If you have some clients who require to send email through your online exchange environment, you can do so now (all info below thanks to BPOSitive). To connect to the Microsoft Online Services SMTP server, open your SMTP client application and provide the information [...]
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- Tags: BPOS, Cloud Computing
Hosted SharePoint vs. SharePoint in House
24 Aug 2009original source here The article starts great: SharePoint is Awesome – Whether it be Hosted or In House
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- Tags: Cloud Computing, SharePoint