Virtualization is an investment for the long term. It is unthinkable to adopt cloud computing solutions without virtualization, at least for basic IT services. Companies are quite carefully considering now for switching to cloud computing, but this trend requires to know the existence of a virtual infrastructure, a necessary step to implement cloud computing in your own data center. How many SMEs … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing : Yes or No?
Cloud Computing - Yes or No? This is the question every individual, business and IT must deal today. Because the cloud is newer trend, already new models and developments are emerging alongside the public cloud and private cloud model, many new technologies including vertical scaling and better service-level agreements are being added up. You will get more details in Cloud Computing Service … [Read more...]
Flexibility and Scalability are the Key Benefits of Cloud Computing
Flexibility and scalability are key benefits of cloud computing. But this can really skim, it is right from the beginning to pay attention to the architecture. One who does his/her homework diligently, is usually rewarded - it's at school, at work and even when it is cloud computing - anyone who wants to succeed in the cloud, needs to work on the right architecture before. This is indicated by … [Read more...]
Corporate Security Systems are Increasingly Pushed to Cloud Computing
Corporate security systems are increasingly pushed to Cloud Computing without calculating the risks, as temporary measure for the lack of trained personnel. When we are thinking for each and every point on Secure Cloud Computing, a new segment of victims are being generated. In the study "Demand for Cloud-Based Offerings Impacts Security Service Spending" published in April by Eric Ahlm on … [Read more...]
VPS Without Control Panel : All the Needed Info
VPS without control panel makes a new users scarred with the only black command line option. But this is the best way and you will master to use it very fast. First, we are considering Cloud VPS mainly as they are on Pay as You Go model - like Rackspace Unmanaged Cloud Server, if you can not control the test server or have messed it up, simply delete it - no fixed monthly cost, only the usage cost … [Read more...]
Multiple Server Swift Installation : Outline
Multiple Server OpenStack Swift Installation appears a bit confusing to the new users who wants to create an cloud instance for storage. It is definitely not possible for all the Universities to arrange multiple bigger instances of own bare metal, possibly testing the softwares on own Servers becomes prohibitive for cost. The terminology Cloud itself is too much business centric. We have to … [Read more...]
How to Organize Cloud Infrastructure : Lesson 2
Every company nowadays, has essentially two basic needs that can be met through IT and the Internet - the accessibility by and speeding up the works. This article is named How to Organize Cloud Infrastructure Lesson 2 as the first and foremost important step to plan and get the maximum ROI has been discussed before. To satisfy the customers, to keep the activities official and organized; the … [Read more...]
Unified Centralized Management of Data with Openfiler
Unified centralized management of data is possible with Openfiler which provides an web based interface for network attached storage and block storage. Openfiler is a free software and licensed under GNU GPL. Previously we have discussed, configured cloud servers to deal with web services, databases, mail and collaboration softwares, in this article we are going describe a system that adds a … [Read more...]
Secure Connection to Cloud Infrastructure by VPN Tunnel
Secure connection to Cloud Infrastructure by using VPN Tunnel - like we already said on our Secure Cloud Computing Guide, we pointed the importance of the connecting device. Practically it is a part of Comprehensive Cloud Security Strategy. It is obvious that, for this article; we have to take that the reader is used with the common computing terminologies like VPN (Virtual Private Network), … [Read more...]
Installing SugarCRM on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Installing SugarCRM on Rackspace Cloud Sites has been described in this step by step guide so that anyone can easily follow the guide and install easily. We wrote about the basics on CRM or Customer Relationship Management itself and the softwares in one article. SugarCRM is a PHP MySQL based software and required MySQLi database. Actually the installation process is easy. You have to decide … [Read more...]
ERP or Enterprise Resource Planning : Basics and Softwares
Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is the entrepreneurial task in nature within an existing company resources for re-allotment of capital, equipment or personnel in together termed as Resources as efficiently as possible as a part of long term operational process and thus in short, Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is to optimize the management of business processes. Usually, an ERP system is a … [Read more...]