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...]
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...]
XenServer is Now Open Source : Create Virtual Machines for Free
XenServer allows you to create and manage virtual machines within one or more physical nodes, it is now fully open source like prior to acquisition by Citrix. XenServer is again back to the basics and dusts off heir open source root of origin. In conjunction with the release of the new version 6.2, Citrix Systems makes XenServer and all its extensions available to all, distinguishing between free … [Read more...]
Comprehensive Cloud Security Strategy
Comprehensive cloud security strategy in brief describes the key points of a perfect approach for cloud computing security. Written in plain simple English for increasing consciousness about security and privacy. The key points of a cloud security approach are : The protection of infrastructure The protection of data Secure authentication and user authentication (Identity Management) The … [Read more...]
Security Risk and Virtualization : Network and Migrate Virtual Machines
Security Risk and Virtualization is layered issue and multi factorial. We have discussed the points descriptively through three separate articles. Just a quick recall - the first article is the most important one as it indexes the points. Second article was on Securing VM and Monitoring VDS. This is the third article of the series and we will discuss the 5th point - Identify the high risk networks … [Read more...]
Security Risk and Virtualization : Secure VM and Monitor VDS
Security Risk and Virtualization is multi-factorial which has been discussed before. This article is a part of measures to decrease the security risks and part of the above linked index article. So, we are discussing the 4th point, Use Secure virtual machines in the linked article and the 7th point - Monitor virtual desktops within this article. It is beyond saying that you must know the details … [Read more...]
Security Risk and Virtualization : Applications and Classifying Applications
Security Risk and Virtualization as discussed before is multi factorial. Today we will go through the applications and operating systems part with some details. Those who are freshly reading this article can go through our previous article - Security Risks of Virtualization in Data Center which, as we mentioned on the very article; is a kind of checklist and index of each points. In the context of … [Read more...]
Security Risks of Virtualization in Data Center
Security risks of Virtualization in the Data Center are with applications and operating systems to Weakness of security personnel. Technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing in the data center improve efficiency. But in terms of IT security, concerns are not all the way out. In this article on Security risks of Virtualization in the Data Center we will explain what data center … [Read more...]
Smart TV, Google Android Based Smart TV OS and Emulation
Smart TV, Google Android based Smart TV OS can be emulated either officially using the respective SDK or the ISO file and some Virtualization Software. Basically we possibly should write about Smart TV on the first occasion for the sake of general users, but actually this guide is intended for the advanced users; you can take the hacking methods are in alpha phase, unlike some easy to understand … [Read more...]
Big Data in the Cloud
Big Data in the Cloud explain what is the relationship between these two new information technologies which is necessary to approach to the extensive network. As already mentioned in other articles, often the name of the cloud is nothing more than a group of virtualized servers : a computing resource that presents itself as a normal server. This is generally called Infrastructure as a Service … [Read more...]