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Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Computing’
Cloudshare Pro
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17 Feb 2010Yesterday I came by a blog post which introduced Cloudshare to me ( a service that allows companies to demo software in the cloud). Cloudshare was introducing Cloudshare Pro, CloudShare Pro is intended for individuals and small teams who want to run complete, networked systems in the cloud and share copies [...]
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From the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog.
Microsoft Online Services is now a BlackBerry® certified partner and BlackBerry Alliance Elite Member. For the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, licenses and support are now a part of the Microsoft Online Services Hosted BlackBerry service, which customers buy directly from Microsoft. Previously, customers had to purchase and provide [...]
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- Tags: BPOS, Cloud Computing
Azure going to be a LaaS platform
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4 Feb 2010According to Prashant Ketkar (marketing director of Azure) the Azure Service will be adding Remote Desktop capabilities a.s.a.p., as well as the ability to load and run Virtual Machine images directly on the platform.
This would be a smart move and something I was hoping for: Azure as a direct competitor of Amazon’s EC2 platform.
The original [...]
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Your cloud needs a Sys Admin
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28 Jan 2010A really nice article written by George Reese (twitter profile here).
As I am a Systems Administrator (which also administrates some cloud instances) and am working with a software development company (amongst others), this article has some interesting quotes like:
The cloud, however, has a nasty habit of deluding programmers into thinking they no longer need sys [...]
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You can configure the End-User Notification whenever a new version of the Microsoft Online Sign-In application is released. This is useful if you want to control whether you want your end-users to receive a notification or not.
For example: a End-User who has no rights to install anything on his computer doesn’t want to be bothered [...]
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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 [create image [...]
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
boot [...]
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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 with [...]
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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 [...]
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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 of SharePoint Online. The [...]
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