Category Archives: Cloud Servers
14 Open Source Cloud Software Made in Switzerland Eichenberger – Video
05-07-2012 19:14 Open Source Cloud Software -- Made in Switzerland Michael Eichenberger, CEO at stepping stone GmbH The FOSS-Cloud is a Swiss-German cooperation. Financed and developed by the FOSS-Group Management AG, stepping stone GmbH and limbas GmbH. It is the foundation to build public and private clouds to run unmodified Windows and Linux servers as well as desktops. The solution consists of a user friendly web interface to manage every aspect of your cloud. Since the FOSS-Cloud is fully multi- tenant capable, it can be used by companies or governments to build private clouds to serve multiple departments or subdivisions. The same solution can be used by service providers to serve their customers individually. The FOSS-Cloud provides a local workstation user experience, by using the advanced remote desktop protocol SPICE, while giving the administrators the possibility to manage clients centrally in the cloud and assigning resources on demand. Therefore reducing administration and migration costs while at the same time increasing the productivity and contentment of the employees. In comparison with other solutions FOSS-Cloud is able to provide a turnkey solution which allows companies and governments to profit from already present employee knowledge and to avoid investing into vendor-specific know-how. Michael Eichenberger has in-depth knowledge in the conception, design and implementation of complex hard- and software systems. He has designed and implemented large infrastructures ...
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08 ownCloud org FOSS alternative to cloud data storage Karlitschek – Video
05-07-2012 19:18 - FOSS alternative to cloud data storage Frank Karlitschek, CTO at ownCloud Inc. The advantages of storing data in the cloud are many: ubiquitous access to data from multiple devices, social interaction and sharing with others on the web and no extra software to install. However, in exchange for this privilege, YOUR data is often stored on - and even OWNED by - one of several organizations - none of which easily allow interaction or sharing of data among them. Besides these convenience issues, there are also problems with privacy and security as well as the potential for one hardware failure to make the data of thousands of users impossible to access. Taken together, the cloud is not perfect. ownCloud is the first and most ubiquitous FOSS solution to run on the server or computer of the user or on an internal company server -- giving the user the benefits of cloud computing and control of the data. ownCloud integrates with desktop applications so that the users has cloud features combined with the security and the good cost structure of in house file servers. ownCloud is an active open source project which was founded in 2010 and has seen enormous growth since then. The main features are syncing and sharing of file, encryption, calendar and contacts syncing, media player, photo gallery and more. This talk will give attendees an overview of this market, a quick tutorial on getting ownCloud running in their organizations as well as an audience-driven discussion ...
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Ez Money Method – Video
04-07-2012 14:45 The System EZ Money Method We have a system in beta called EZ Money Method that has been set up so that people can earn between $150 and $1500 per day "IF" the EZ Money Method is followed. In this Free system you can take advantage of the $150 CPA offer, with full training and back up. You'll get a free website,capture page and all the selling and promotion is done for you, so all you have to do is drive traffic to your pages. Like I said the system is in beta at the moment and is called the Ez Money Method so things are still in production. Now the most important part of this equation... The Company and Product. My PC Backup: THE a 9 year old company with over 80 employees,presently paying out over $600000 a month in commissions.Their Alexa ratings ranks them in the top 2000 websites in the the top 8000 websites globally.That's Massive amount of traffic.They started selling hosting and sold that company for Millions so they have a track record and the backing to succeed. The Products: This is the best part every body with a PC or Laptop needs this product. MyPCBackup is a free tool which will automatically backup your whole computer, saving your documents,photos, music and files. If you update a file or save something new it will automatically back it up for you. You will then be able to access all your computer files online from any computer or phone so you no longer need to carry memory sticks to store your data on. This is ...
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Create a server in less then 10 seconds! – Video
05-07-2012 04:06 Our system takes up to 10 seconds to provision the server, and less then 2 minutes to have up and running. Faster than with any other provider! Get more informations about our cloud servers at
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Elastic MapReduce Training Series: Cluster of Servers (4 of 11) – Video
03-07-2012 12:50 This video covers EC2 instance types, pricing, and Hadoop cluster configuration.
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CVD: Citrix XenDesktop on FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud (Testing Methodology) – Video
03-07-2012 14:28 I've been collaborating with Cisco, Microsoft, and NetApp solution architects to create a Citrix XenDesktop reference implementation that customers can deploy as a complete VDI solution. We are focused on scalability testing of this joint solution stack: Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services (PVS) 6.1 using Microsoft Private Cloud (eg Hyper-V) on Cisco FlexPod, which incorporates Cisco UCS blade servers, switches, and NetApp storage. The goal of our testing was to build and validate a 2000-user XenDesktop environment, confirming usability of an enterprise-level solution at that scale. Focus of this video: To understand the test methodology/process used for this solution, you can view this short, 4½-minute video. Thanks for watching! -Frank Anderson
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Supermicro High Performance Computing Solutions at Computex – Video
04-07-2012 08:19 Supermicro introduces Enterprise NVIDIA GPU Superblade Server which combines 20 Tesla GPU's in a 7U enclosure. This is the highest density Blaze Server based on GPU technology. The 2U GPU server combines 6 TESLA GPU's in a 2U box for customers with Graphic intensive requirements from their servers. The latest product is the MicroCloud with cloud optimised architecture where each server node is individually managed, deployed as needed. The modules are all based on Intel Sandybridge processor technology, bringing convenience and affordability to the server market. The 5U server is an 8-way MP server. This means that 8x Nehalem based CPU's inside one box. Each server can support up to 2T of memory. The next server is the Twin server, with either two or four systems into either 1U or 2U box. Lastly the Blade Servers have the same functionality enabling CPU intensive tasks, alternatively using the GPU array as described before for Graphical intensive tasks. - Credits - Host: FirstZoom Original Link :
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Cloud Infrastructure Services – A Webinar from P
03-07-2012 14:00 Join Drew Embury as we walks through Cloud Infrastructure Services - using Remote Desktop to manage your entire application and desktop computing experience. Never spend on servers or PCs again and drastically reduce your IT spend.
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Cloud Redundancy: How Amazon Should Repair Credibility
Cloud Community Stunned
I'm curiously puzzled, but not entirely surprised, how a company such as Amazon (NASDAQ: GS) allowed its servers to be interrupted for any length of time due to severe storm damage in northern Virginia this past weekend. Companies using cloud servers are both expectant and dependent on being able to pull information from cloud sources to operate their businesses without interruption. After all, IT professionals have been preaching the security and reliability of the cloud for quite some time to manage large data off-site. Steps for Amazon to repair credibility should be transparent and swift.
Redundancy Issues 101
Failing to address possible redundancy issues early on in cloud infrastructure is a basic design-maintenance (101) issue, which can become extremely expensive.
This issue, reported by news outlets as a downtime factor, should be the addressed openly and honestly with constituents early on. Credibility and believability in cloud support 24/7, is at stake.
Utility Service Provider Design
Obviously the external electric grid design plays a role in any outage, no matter their cause. Early planning stages in design and control are key factors in redundancy, efficiency and reliability.
Did through collaboration exist between utility and customer in facility design process?
Off-Site Redundancy-Backup Facility
Inherently, these type utility outages will occur due to a national infrastructure grid that is aging and vulnerable to costly disruptions. Above ground utility pole grid is notoriously aged and lacks design upgrades to protect critical areas from massive outages. This is a known fact which businesses must work around, building on site and off-site redundancy.
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Amazon Power Outage Exposes Risks Of Cloud Computing
For a few hours over the weekend, thousands of vintage-looking photos went unshared, online movies went unstreamed, and digital scrapbooks went unpinned.
An electrical storm that swept across the East Coast late Friday knocked out power at a Virginia data center run by Amazon Web Services. The outage disrupted numerous web companies that rely on Amazon's virtual data servers, including Instagram, Netflix and Pinterest.
Amazon said a "power outage caused storage failures for customers who rent space on Amazons servers through its cloud service. It said it had restored service to the remainder of its customers on Saturday.
"While no amount of downtime is acceptable, in the six years of running these services our customers have been quite pleased with our operational performance," Amazon spokeswoman Tera Randle said in a statement.
Analysts said the outage highlighted the tradeoffs of cloud computing, an increasingly popular method of outsourcing computing power and storage to remote servers over the web. A growing number of companies and government agencies are taking advantage of cloud computing largely because it is cheaper -- they only pay for the computing power they need. It also allows them to quickly respond to spikes in traffic by expanding their server capacity.
But the cloud is not always dependable. In April 2011, Amazons cloud service was brought down by a technical glitch, disrupting several major websites, including Foursquare, Reddit and HootSuite.
Experts say failures at data centers are not unusual. But a failure of Amazon's cloud service can have widespread impacts across the web because the company has thousands of customers.
An outage at a data center happens every day, but you never hear about them because there are only one or two companies involved, said George Reese, chief technology officer for enStratus, which helps companies manage their data in the cloud. But when the cloud goes down, so many companies are impacted it makes big news.
Amazon allows companies, for an extra fee, to spread their data across eight regional data centers around the world. This "insulates companies against occasional failure" at a single data center, an Amazon spokeswoman said.
Yet most companies, particularly smaller startups, don't back up their virtual infrastructure in multiple places, said Lydia Leong, an analyst who covers cloud computing for Gartner Research.
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