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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. pricing starts at $0.035/hour and is inclusive of SQL Server software, hardware, and Amazon RDS management capabilities.

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the future of the Operating System - LinuxCon 2015 keynote

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OS Provides Portability 
 (same app runs on different hardware). OS in 1980s & 1990s • UNIX dominates mainframes/servers • PC emerges & brings lots of users (expanded reach) –DOS & Windows –Mac System Software –OS2, Amiga OS & BeOS. Transcript. The Future of the Operating System. What is an Operating System ?

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Cedexis Now Tracks Performance for 50 Clouds » Data Center.

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Internet performance and control company Cedexis announced an extension to its Radar community services with the addition of many new clouds, and the availability of Radar reports as an app for Windows 8. The Windows 8 Radar app is available immediately for free on the Windows App Store. Disaster Recovery.

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Using Virtualization and Cloud as a DR strategy

Virtualized Greek

They talked about how end users shouldn’t use their premier VDI solution XenDesktop as a disaster recovery solution. If you are using Windows Server 2012 you can actually cluster a physical server with a virtual server by leveraging Windows native clustering.

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Q&A: Leading IT in a high-volume M&A environment

CIO Business Intelligence

What is the overall IT ecosystem—infrastructure, architecture, integrations, disaster recovery, data management, helpdesk, etc.? What legal entities are providing/contracting/owning hardware, software and/or facilities? How is the IT organization structured? What is the IT roadmap? What IT projects are underway?

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. Just think how much all them licences would have cost any other company running 1 million+ Windows servers! Disaster Recovery.

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Technology Short Take #44

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As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.

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