In the early days of the cloud, a decade or so ago, the conversations were generally parsed in terms of it being a zero-sum game. Either the cloud would win or on-premises would. Either public cloud would crush private cloud or the other way round. And if the public cloud were to win, then it would be a fight to the death between Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
But we’ve all gotten a little more nuanced since then, and most people accept that some kind of hybrid offering will likely be the default for the vast majority of organizations into the future. With a few exception, most organizations will take a little bit of this, add it to a little bit of that, and throw in some of that stuff for good measure.
Some people call them “cloud hacks,” which is perhaps more accurate than “cloud tricks,” but the enterprises I work with don’t like the term “hack.”
Whatever you prefer to call them, here are three shortcuts you can create to achieve specific end states.
Cloud trick No. 1: Customize your console
Both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft have consoles that provide a master control view of resources on their clouds. With them, you can see what’s available and what you have already provisioned.
RackWare offers a management and automation platform that enterprises use to manage their computing resources to more closely follow demand. RackWare’s core proposition is that its management suite delivers cost savings to customers of a suggested 40 to 50 percent. Additionally, RackWare promises to deliver the highest levels of performance and availability to their customers.
The company today released a new take on its management suite that aims to extend the existing core RackWare offering. The new platform promises to offer enterprises a single solution (they refrained from calling it a single pane of glass) to move applications, protect those same applications and manage all the different applications across the totality of their infrastructure. Justifying the move, RackWare points to a recent IDC report that suggests 70 percent of heavy cloud users are considering a hybrid cloud strategy.
Docker has appointed Concur founder Steve Singh as the company’s new CEO. Singh succeeds Ben Golub, who has taken a position on the company’s board of directors, where Singh serves as chairman. I talked to Singh to learn more about the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Managing growth
Singh sees the container technology provider facing the same challenges that any company at this stage would face — being able to manage the growth of the business. He has set three priorities for Docker: innovation, customers and talent.
Innovation: “If you look at history, great enduring companies especially in the technology industry are always innovating ahead of the market. They are always innovating ahead of their customers. Innovation is an area that I want to make sure we have really substantive investment at Docker, both in the open-source community and in the products and services that we build internally then deliver to our enterprise customers.”
Startup ZeroStack is releasing the general availability of its hybrid cloud platform this week that combines an on-premises converged infrastructure stack that is managed by ZeroStack via a remote software platform.
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ZeroStack’s converged infrastructure
The combination of on-premises infrastructure plus remote vendor management means customers get a cloud behind their firewall without the need for extensive in-house knowledge to manage it.
Splitting Hewlett-Packard into two distinct companies is an onerous task, requiring management to wade through a complex cost structure, budgeting process and governance. Yet Ralph Loura, CIO of HP Enterprise Group, is doing just that using technology business management software that helps him gain visibility in IT assets costs of the $ 28 billion organization. HP will become two companies, HP Inc. and HP Enterprise, in November.
Ralph Loura, CIO of HP.
“Technology business management software allows us to democratize IT costing structure across the IT team so I can get real-time, rich analysis of where service costs are coming from,” Loura tells CIO.com.
Splitting Hewlett-Packard into two distinct companies is an onerous task, requiring management to wade through a complex cost structure, budgeting process and governance. Yet Ralph Loura, CIO of HP Enterprise Group, is doing just that using technology business management software that helps him gain visibility in IT assets costs of the $ 28 billion organization. HP will become two companies, HP Inc. and HP Enterprise, in November.
Ralph Loura, CIO of HP.
“Technology business management software allows us to democratize IT costing structure across the IT team so I can get real-time, rich analysis of where service costs are coming from,” Loura tells CIO.com.
Got some cloud-based servers on Amazon or Rackspace Cloud? CloudKick just showed off a new 3D visualization of your server infrastructure which helps you manage your Cloud servers better. Pretty cool stuff.
Question by Ben G: iPod Touch wifi – “cannot find server”?
i have an iPod touch and it is connected up to my secure talktalk connection and has full bars in the corner, but when i go on to Safari the message appears “safari can’t open the page because it cannot find the server”. I’ve been looking for ways to fix this but all the things i’ve tried from websites (e.g. forums) haven’t worked.
When i connected to “the cloud” wireless hotspot it worked fine but my home connection just wont work even after entering my WEP key. PLEASE HELP!!!
Best answer:
Answer by PicoMe This It think that the problem is on the router side and not the iPod side. Try reconfiguring your router.
Add your own answer in the comments! Question by GRIM: How to create a Web Server?
What i want to do is use an existing computer as a web server. I want to host my personal website AND also be able to access files like a “cloud” server. The computer that will be running this “server” will be running Windows XP (more then likely if I can’t get a hold of Windows 7 in the next few weeks)
This computer will house all backups of my documents and pictures, and my website is a forum based site, and more then likely run a game server on it as well down the road.
So please be as detailed as you can, I am computer literate, however more details makes it easier for me to follow.
Also, using a linksys router, not sure what i have to do with that…..
Thanks in advance!!!!
Best answer:
Answer by John Download apache tomcat.
Unzip it.
Run the apache-tomcat/bin/startup.exe
Now go to http://localhost:8080
You are running your own server! Now you have to program html files for it.
To get it on the web, you sadly need to call your ISP and have them open port 80. It will cost you some money since they think you are running a business. Or you can get hosting from bluehost or godaddy (although godaddy is hard to use and doesn’t host files, it just reserves your domain).
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