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The Server Room
| Putting cloud computing to good use: The business virtual file server. This is the next post in my series on good ways to apply cloud computing services to best advantage. Cloud computing is great technology but most people don’t have any idea how to actually apply it! For many small to medium sized businesses (and even some large ones), the idea of a data center is a consumer grade computer from Wal-Mart in a closet with a window air conditioner, possibly regularl | |
| Stop making cloud computing harder than it needs to be. Today I’ve been reading a piece on public and private cloud computing. People are making this WAY harder than it needs to be! I’ve seen these cloud computing “issues” raised quite a bit lately, so I’m going to take a minute to address them here. There are certainly management tools to automate the operation of most cloud computing systems out there and many of the ma | |
| The virtual data center: Understanding cloud computing. I’ve been reading a lot of attempts lately to provide a real definition of just what cloud computing really is. I’m going to take a stab at providing the definitive answer to that question. A cloud computing system consists of a collection of physical servers and storage that are closely tied together to allow resources to be efficiently shared and the entire system to be managed as on | |
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