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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

CTOvision

Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology. Businesses, enticed away from traditional data center models by lower upfront capital costs and simpler solutions to scaling and reliability issues, have been adopting cloud technology in droves. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

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Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. PC manufacturers flocked to Windows, and the operating system attracted support from important software companies. Microsoft moved to a 32-bit architecture and introduced the Start menu.

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Hybrid Cloud Versus Hybrid IT: What’s the Hype?

Cloud Musings

On one hand, hybrid cloud is all the rage. Adopting this option promises all the cost savings of public cloud with the security and comfort of private cloud. This environment would not only check the box for meeting the cloud computing mandate, but also position the organization as innovative and industry-leading.

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Parallel Processing and Unstructured Data Transforms Storage

Cloud Musings

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions.

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Teradata: Embrace the Power of PaaS

Cloud Musings

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has always been the unappreciated sibling of the cloud computing service model trio. This valuable Teradata differentiator can be delivered under a private, public or hybrid cloud deployment model. The elasticity of cloud architecture enables the company to lease additional nodes within a few days.

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Technology Short Take #67

Scott Lowe

AlgoSec has a couple of articles published last year before VMworld 2015, but I just now came across them. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Matt Dorn has a good article on configuring cloud-init to use an admin password in an OpenStack environment. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

This will be the last Technology Short Take of 2015, as next week is Christmas and the following week is the New Year’s holiday. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Operating Systems/Applications. Welcome to Technology Short Take #58. See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.)

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