Let’s move: Azure Resource Mover

Moving resources from one location to another in Azure has been possible but not easy to do. In this article,...

Automating Azure: Creating an On-Demand HDInsight Cluster

This article pulls together the concepts from two previous articles to demonstrate a way to automate the “on-demand” creation and...

Automating Azure: How to Deploy a Temporary Virtual Machine Resource

Because Azure is designed from the ground-up to allow automated provisioning, It provides a number of interesting opportunities for use....

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates

If you need a way of deploying infrastructure-as-code to Azure, then Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates are the obvious way...

OpenStack: The Good and Not-So-Good Bits

OpenStack holds a great deal of promise as a cloud platform built on open standards, and has support from the...

An Introduction to the OpenPOWER Foundation

In a bid to challenge Intel's dominance of high performance computing environments, IBM have introduced OpenPOWER, a flexible open-source framework...

Microservices in Promise and Practice

Are microservices the cure for the ague of monolithic applications, or do they bring their own problems with them that...

Stop Relying on Cloud File Stores as a Backup Strategy

There is a growing assumption that Cloud file-storage services represent an ideal way of backing up files. It seems a...

Deleting Files in the Cloud

The public perception is that, when something is deleted, it no longer exists. IT in general prefers the fuzzier idea...

Amazon Web Services and managing our EBS volumes effectively

With Amazon Web Services, you might find that a large Amazon Machine Image (AMI) as with over 1 TB, taken...

Introduction to Route 53

AWS's DNS service, called Route 53, is a reliable and cost effective service for managing your domain. It has a...

A private cloud that isn't really a cloud at all

Virtualization certainly has advantages, but using a private cloud means a lot of configuration, troubleshooting, and management; and you still...

Introduction to OpenStack

OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform based on Linux. It aims to allow organisations to run cloud services on standard...

Comparing IAAS and PAAS: A Developer’s Perspective

In the Cloud, services come in the form of Software (SaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS) and platform (PaaS). when moving a service...