Sunday 19 August 2012

Cloud Computing – A Picture is Worth a 1000 Words – Infographics


CLOUD COMPUTING EXPLAINED VISUALLY – INFOGRAPHICS


The infographics below help to clear up the cloud confusion through visuals. Infographics are an amazing tool and the following cloud related infographics will give you a better understanding of cloud computing.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

The following infographic gives you a visual representation of the benefits of cloud computing. The infographic depicts the many benefits of cloud computing as well as reasoning for why some businesses are slow to make the move to cloud computing.


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yoyoclouds: Infographic: The State of OpenStack Adoption

Thursday 26 July 2012

Creating A Local Yum Repository on CentOS

Creating A Local Yum Repository on CentOS

Reducing the costs of I.T without reducing the functionally of your systems is one of the major obstacles to overcome. One of these costs is bandwidth.

One of the first bandwidth saving tips any organization should know is the importance of creating a local YUM repository on your LAN. Not only do you decrease the time it takes to download and install updates, you also decrease bandwidth usage. This saving will definitely please the suites of any organization.

This “How To” show’s you a simple yet effective way of setting up your local YUM server and client.

Read more here.

Thursday 28 June 2012

Learn All About the Amazon Simple Workflow Service - Two New Videos


Another great new post by Jeff, the voice may not be that great, but the visual is good...:

The Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is used to power highly scalable distributed systems at NASA (case study), Sage Bionetworks (case study), and a number of our other customers.

In order to help you to better understand SWF, Balan Subramanian, SWF Product Manager, hosted an hour-long webinar:



Maxim Fateev, AWS Principal Engineer, spent another hour discussing the Flow Framework:



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