Cloud computing is about hardware-based services (involving computing, network and storage capacities), where: Services are provided on-demand; customers can pay for them as they go, without the need to invest into a datacenter. Hardware management is abstracted from the customers. Infrastructure ...
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Is there a good option for private & public cloud deployment of web apps? (cloudify? scalr? etc) requirement: vsphere private + ec2, etc
I am looking for something which would allow our company to ease the management and deployment of our application onto current private and futurely, to public clouds.
We currently utilize VMWare ...
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Track bandwith usage by application
I have a server at Rackspace and noticed my server is suddenly sending out 2GB of data per month (this is atypical since I don't use it that much)
How can I figure out what application is using that ...
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Cloud Backup provider that uses rsync [closed]
I'm looking for a cloud backup provider that uses rsync. I have used rsync.net for many years but their pricing model isn't keeping up with the rest of the market and I'm looking at several tens of ...
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Dedicated image server . [closed]
I will be having nearly more than 30 millions of images.I am in confusion whether to have it on single server or i have to buy new dedicated server for images.Please suggest me the solution from above ...
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Virtual Private Servers/Cloud hosting - Suitable for CPU intensive tasks?
Can anyone with experience of deploying CPU intensive applications into 'cloud' environments (like e.g. Linode), comment on whether these environments have been suitable?
It seems to me that with ...
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Open source app to manage and run commands on cloud servers? [closed]
I'm creating a SaaS platform, and I need a component / library that can create, delete and store the connection details for cloud servers. It also needs to support executing shell commands on these ...
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What are the best practices to back up your production environment for a web app?
I am running 2 boxes on hetzner and would like to figure out the best way to back up the
- app
- data
- live environment
I understand that for the app and data parts, its very specific to my web ...
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How can I add multiple private IP addresses for a single machine?
I have one Windows cloud server on Go Daddy. They gave me 3 public IP addresses and one private IP address per machine. And I know for more public IP addresses I have to call Go Daddy.
How can I add ...
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Amazon EBS : Is it flexible and expandable or is it a static disk
I just started the journey into cloud and my choice was Amazon. The free tier was very cool so i opted for this stuff.
In the free tier there was a free storage of 30Gb (EBS), so i made a EBS Volume ...
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What exactly is a Cloud Firewall?
Recently I hear a lot of the buzz word "Cloud" and I have even heard of Cloud firewall. But what I was looking for is if I implement Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as a private cloud using ...
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Does PaaS is middleware over IaaS? [closed]
According to this picture,
Does PaaS is middleware over IaaS? and does SaaS is simply an Application built on top of PaaS?
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running browser on server or cloud [closed]
I want to run a javascript script for my google account 24x7, but I can't keep my laptop running all the time. Is there any solution like run a browser(chrome or firefox) on the web itself somewhere ...
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Download Server [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my capacity planning?
A few months ago I started a online store to download digital goods and it has became quite popular since then and I'm needing ...
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Amazon EC2 estimation
I'm a software/web developer and for the first time I have to set up a cloud system to host one of the websites I have coded. I found very difficult to estimate the costs for an Amazon EC2 cloud ...
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Running starcraft 2 in the cloud [closed]
I want to run starcraft 2 on multiple machines for analytics purposes.
I've tried on rackspace and amazon instances with and without gpu, using splashtop as remote desktop client but nothing seems to ...
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Private cloud solution [Eucalyptus,OpenStack, Nimbus] for Java deployments [Glassfish, Tomcat]
I am interested in a way to have private cloud which would host Glassfish (or Tomcat) server.
Which option from Eucalyptus, Openstack or Nimbus would be best to deploy java applications on it? Or ...
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Rackspace cloud recomendations
What tools do you use to help you manage your cloud,
specially with rackspace cloud?
Things like Provisioning, Monitoring, Autoscaling, Alerting etc...
I'm just a developer, and for a little while ...
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140 views
How to configure network connections between computers for Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure
With the release of Ubuntu 12.04 I thought I'd try my luck with a private home cloud, I've been reading everything I could find but I've got some questions. I'm thinking of a pretty simple setup of 1 ...
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Possible to per file encrypt cloud storage?
With the many cloud storage providers that there now exist, would it be possible to add a layer of encryption before the files are saved?
It would be possible to make an encrypted partition in a ...
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google cloud print on linux
i'm using Google apps, and i would like to use google cloud print but all my printers are "classic", and for what i understand it is possible to use a classic printer if i have a running pc with my ...
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Security concerns on online backup
Can there be any security with online (cloud) backup?
There are solutions that claim to be secure because they encrypt on client side.
But there is a client on your server that has access to all your ...
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Install vmplayer on cloud [closed]
Can you please let me know on this.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10234475/vmplayer-on-centos6
It was closed there as off topic. Hope this is the right place for this question.
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Cannot register node in eucalyptus cloud
I've installed eucalyptus cloud in Ubuntu 10.04 server. But problem is that, when i'm trying to register node using the following command
$ sud euca_conf --discover-noodes
A message comes. ...
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how to deal with backup & restore of private cloud environment?
using Cloudstack OSS - with NFS as storage backend....
How to deal with VM image backup and restore? snapshot backup is preferred
softwares like PHD Virtual are built for specific Hypervisor: ...
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Cloud services, Public IPs and SIP [closed]
I'm trying to run a custom SIP software (which uses JAIN SIP 1.2) on a cloud box. What I'd really like is to have a real public IP aka which is listed by "ifconfig -a" command. This is because atm I ...
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Can my company benefit from cloud computing? [closed]
I have read Wikipedia articles, etc., but I have a small engineering firm. We're a machine vision integrator. For some reason, it was suggested that if we offered a "cloud" -- whatever that is -- that ...
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Has anyone used products by StorSimple? [closed]
Their products are storage systems similar to NetApp, but their "hook" is they provide automated tiered storage with the third tier being Cloud providers like Amazon and Azure.
They have an ...
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Are self Self-healing Cloud and Traditional Failover Boxes basically the same?
Does it still make sense to setup your own failover system (HAproxy + 2 or more servers for example) when self healing cloud seems like a practical solution? They seem to do the same job or am I ...
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What happens if an OpenStack cloud controller dies?
I've been reading up on OpenStack and how we can re-create an EC2/S3-style cloud for our internal development and I'm having a hard time finding information on how the OpenStack cloud controller ...
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Possible to use Azure xDrive (PageBlob) with on-premises Windows 2008R2
Azure's Windows 2008R2 based hosts currently use blob storage for something called XDrive.
Since this is just a driver and a few other system components, has anyone figured out what files need to be ...
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how to Moniter cpu status using chef? [closed]
i try with java and ruby for moniter EC2 instance with aws sdk but not able to find any example how to moniter ec2 instacne with chef. can any one help to find example to moniter ec2 instance so we ...
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3answers
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Securely connect to mainframe from cloud
I will preface this by saying that I am a solution architect, and I have a client who wishes to host an app in the cloud. The app needs to access information from SAP and other systems.
What is the ...
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windows server 2008 r2 ec2 instance remote localhost access
i am trying to set up a site with xampp. i have succesfully connected to the instance via remote desktop and installed xampp and python (needed for my php script). now i am trying to find a way to ...
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Managing rolling deployments with amazon EC2
Recently I've been experimenting with various cloud management tools like RightScale, Scalr, custom scripts for managing a variety of servers, each hosting several roles (app, db, load balancer, job ...
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“Cloud” term is being sold and abused, what do I do? [closed]
I'm employed by an organization that is selling their products by claiming that it's in the "cloud." Their "cloud" is 2 servers with a few external USB hard drives "at the ready."
I told them that we ...
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Ubuntu Oneiric Orchestra Server failed to run preseeded command
I'm trying to set up a simple cloud between 2 servers.
I'm following the tutorial :
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/10/getting-started-with-ubuntu-orchestra.html
I set up the Orchestra server ...
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Host server from home with a cloud cdn provider or go with cloud server? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites
I have searched for my answer here but didn't find the right one for my needs. I would appreciate your ...
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Administration of IaaS versus PaaS
Am I correct in understanding that generally IaaS (looking primarily at rackspace cloud servers) will provide a virtual server where OS updates, software updates, anti-virus, managed backups and other ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu Private Cloud
I am trying to play around with Ubuntu's private cloud and have some questions.
Do I have to install the server edition for the private cloud?
Is it free?
Does any one know of any tutorial or guide ...
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How to convert VirtualBox VM to OpenStack?
I'm running OpenStack in Ubuntu Server 11.10 (installation did using devstack script), but I have some virtual machines that are already running using VirtualBox.
How can I convert the VirtualBox ...
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Linux/Windows for Java cloud application? [closed]
The idea is to host an Java application server in a cloud service. The application is more memory/processor bound than I/O (disk,network).
Understanding that each case is different, is a JAVA ...
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Cloud Storage/Remote Storage - Windows 7 Embedded
Currently I am running "Windows 7 Embedded" on a few Thin Clients (HP T5570E). I would like to store all user files running on the clients on a remote server (Not local). I have attempted using ...
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Bandwidth out of control, where to go next
I was wondering if someone could give me a bit of advice.
I have just released a site live and it has maxed my bandwidth / space more than what i predicted.
Im from Australia so space and bandwidth ...
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2answers
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persistent storage on Amazon EC2 and other questions
i come from the land of VPSes, and all this cloud hype confuse me.
i have been reading through the amazon EC2 guide for the past 2 days, but i still have few sketchy points i'm not understanding.
if ...
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Minimum requirement for making single node cloud architecture [closed]
Hiee..
I do have only 2GB RAM 32 bit core2 duo intel processor @2.20 GHZ
is it possible for me to make (single node)cloud infrastructure using this configuration?
I need to make cloud ...
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Setting up centralized storage (e.g., NAS/SAN) for a SaaS application
I have a SaaS application running on 6+ servers in HPCloud which creates large amounts of data (GB/TB). Users talk to the application through a RESTful api which replies back with a link to our CDN ...
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Active Directory in the cloud
My company is considering implementing Active Directory and Windows Server to manage our local network and workstations. The main benefits sought are central management of machines, security ...
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Adding a new location through Active Directory. How should it be done?
Our entire Active Directory forest is currently on a single 10/8 private subnet. We're looking to migrate most of our servers to a cloud provider, but I'm not sure how to set up the first domain ...
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What's difference between private datacenter, and public cloud datacenter [closed]
I'm very confused to understand what a cloud datacenter actually is.
In my experience, the main services of a data center are the following:
Renting rackspace
Rack colocation
Server locating on ...
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How many 512mb VPSs per physical server [closed]
I am curious to know what kind of setup services like Rackspace cloud, Slicehost, etc are running. If anyone is familiar with these types of offerings and has any insights please share.
Looking here, ...
