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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Systems that make extensive use of caching almost all report a significant reduction in the cost of their database tier. Given the widespread use of caching in many of the applications in the AWS Cloud, a caching service had been high on the request list of our customers.

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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

IPv6 crossed this milestone late last year. In addition, the nine largest broadband providers will have to submit their plans confidentially to the Commission, and file public quarterly reports on their progress in securing BGP. Blog post by BGP experts Doug Madory of Kentik and Job Snijders of Fastly What is BGP hijacking?

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Fountainhead: My Cloudy Nerdy Playlist for 2012

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Songs about Clouds. Get Off Of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones. Clouds - The Jayhawks. Clouds - Django Reinhardt (awesome rendition w/a Spanish guitar). Clouds - The Go-Betweens. Clouds - The Submarines. Cloud Computing. (55).

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Technology Short Take #87

Scott Lowe

Vincent Bernat has a really in-depth article on IPv4 route lookup on Linux (and one on IPv6 route lookup as well). Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. A few interesting things jumped out at me from the report; one of them was regarding an increase in “siloism” as organizations embraced multiple clouds.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

The PRTG solution will provide you with detailed tracking data and historical reports on all network components. IPv6 support. Detailed reports. Installed will be a proprietary database, web server, report engine, notification system, and other features required for the system to function. Complete Network monitoring.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway.

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Technology Short Take #51

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #51, another collection of posts and links about key data center technologies like networking, virtualization, cloud management, and applications/operating systems. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. This is pretty cool: a cross-platform (ARM and x86_64) hybrid cloud built on top of Docker.

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