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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . . – bg.

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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application? Is calling an app "cloud-ready" just a form of cloud-washing? Cmon - arent all apps "ready for the cloud" (and for that matter, ANY cloud)? cloud these days. Thus, most cloud.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds. Yesterday Amazon announced a new set of services for their EC2 "elastic compute cloud" and these perhaps represent the real "holy grail" for cloud computing. Monday, May 18, 2009. automatically.

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Migrating to VoIP

Spearline Testing

This prominent evolution has been spurred largely by three factors - firstly, the increased use of cloud services and personnel who are more experienced and comfortable operating in a virtual arena. Connectivity and audio quality are monitored on fixed-line, SIP, or mobile networks, globally. Resultant issues.

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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Eric Sloof mentions the NSX-T load balancing encyclopedia (found here ), which intends to be an authoritative resource to NSX-T load balancing configuration and management. Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility. The Microsoft License Mobility program allows customers who already own SQL Server licenses to run SQL Server deployments on Amazon RDS.

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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” Mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) are driving most of the growth, according to Halachmi. T-Mobile, for example, now has 89% of their infrastructure running on IPv6.

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