Dennes Torres in Infrastructure as a Service

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,...

24 September 2020 16 min read

Infrastructure as a Service

Feodor Georgiev in Infrastructure as a Service

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...

18 October 2017 11 min read

Infrastructure as a Service

Feodor Georgiev in Infrastructure as a Service

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....

18 October 2017 8 min read

Infrastructure as a Service

Edward Elliott in Infrastructure as a Service

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...

18 August 2017 14 min read

Robert Sheldon

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...

03 September 2015 15 min read

Robert Sheldon

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...

03 August 2015 12 min read

Robert Sheldon

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...

13 April 2015 18 min read

Robert Sheldon

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...

22 October 2014 17 min read

Robert Sheldon

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...

23 September 2014 15 min read

Ming Lee

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...

19 September 2012 8 min read

Shameer

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...

28 June 2012 6 min read

Jason Nappi

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...

29 May 2012 5 min read

Shameer

Introduction to OpenStack

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

10 April 2012 6 min read

Wely Lau

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...

13 January 2012 6 min read