Cloud Solutions for Manufacturing MSMEs & Small Businesses
What made MSMEs and small businesses think about upgrading their IT infrastructure? With operations being run remotely, companies must think about cloud solutions for manufacturing.
All manufacturing companies aim to speed up their production time, active inventory, and optimized distribution … Read More
Introduction to OpenStack Swift Object Storage
This article is a general introduction to Swift, OpenStack’s Object Storage. We will cover the following topics: what Swift is, what kind of data you can store in Swift, how Swift controls access to your data, how Swift protects that … Read More
Looking to run OpenStack on Azure? The wait’s over!
Would Microsoft Azure service ever become an OpenStack cloud? As reported by Jeffrey Schwartz in Redmond Magazine , “that looks unlikely anytime soon based on statements by company [Microsoft] officials..”. Whether Microsoft will support OpenStack, he concludes, is not a … Read More
Widows Azure Pack/Swift Integration
Windows Azure Pack (WAP) is Microsoft’s private cloud offering. It offers a subset of the features found in Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud. What makes WAP nice for the user is that the portal and APIs are the same in both … Read More
Setting up Point-to-Site OpenVPN on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure has some nice paid services for creating site-to-site VPN. Using these, you can create a hybrid cloud that connects your enterprise network to a Virtual Network on Azure. But if you just want connect to a single Azure … Read More
Preconfigured Linux Images on Microsoft Azure. Part II – Running a Community Instance
Microsoft Azure has community based Linux images in VM Depot. In a previous blog, we showed how to copy a community image to you own Azure account. In this post, we talk about how to boot an instance from … Read More
Preconfigured Linux Images on Microsoft Azure. Part I – Getting Community Images
When most people think of Microsoft Azure, they think of Windows servers. But Azure also supports popular Linux operating systems including Ubuntu, SUSE, CentOS, and Oracle Linux.
When you create a new Virtual Machine in the Azure Portal, it offers … Read More
Addressing the Bandwidth Problem with Hybrid Clouds
One of the problems with hybrid clouds is the bandwidth limitation between your private cloud in the enterprise and a public cloud provider. The communications link can quickly become a bottleneck when one cloud tries to access data in the … Read More
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