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Cloud hosting: Look beyond cost savings and weigh pros, cons

Cloud Musings

First, using either cloud computing or traditional data center hosting comes with a decision to outsource all or a portion of your organization’s IT infrastructure. Even though it is broadly used in the marketplace to represent a fusion of cloud computing and data center hosting, the two business models are complete opposite.

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Number of US Government IT Facilities Rises to 7000 - Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.

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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. I’m not yet convinced that running something like the AWS CLI in a Docker container is worth the extra effort (a Python virtual environment may be more appropriate here). 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. Before I present this episode’s collection of links, articles, and thoughts on various data center technologies, allow me to first wish all of my readers a very merry and very festive holiday season.

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Technology Short Take #50

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #50, the latest in my series of posts sharing various links and articles pertaining to key data center technologies. This article by Russell Bryant is a great overview and update of the work going on with Open Virtual Network (OVN). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #49

Scott Lowe

I have here for your reading pleasure an eclectic collection of links and articles from around the web, focusing on data center-related technologies. This news came out of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015: Ericsson has announced a new “hyperscale” hardware platform based on Intel’s Rack Scale Architecture (RSA). Virtualization.

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Understanding Cloud Computing for Your Business

CTOvision

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. Over the last decade, cloud computing has gone from being a buzzword to an essential component of web technology.

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