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Cloud Management is a hot topic, and it is popular that every start-up and established vendors provide some tools to manage the cloud environment. There are monitoring tools, configuration tools, and tools in between. There are naturally foggy pieces on the market (vaporware), and it is not easy to get a clear idea. If you deploy a cloud that is fairly static or not a mission-critical environment, you may not need to configure the system dynamically. In this case, the product's built-in standard tools for adding/changing/removing resources may be more than sufficient. Several vendors have products designed specifically for cloud computing management (...).

Cloud management is increasingly well known and is becoming a hot topic for now, with every emerging company and established vendors providing some tools to manage the cloud environment. There are a wide variety of tasks, such as monitoring tools, configuration tools, and tools in between. On the market there are natural fog (vaporware), this kind of tools to dazzle people, want to quickly have a certain understanding and clear, it is not easy. If you deploy a cloud that is not a mission-critical environment, but rather a fairly static environment, you may not need to configure the system dynamically. In the ...

Service providers, start-ups, integrators, and veteran vendors provide a wealth of management tools. But companies may not be prepared to use complex choreography and automation systems. Industry analysts and cloud integration experts say there are no restrictions on the data and types of tools that help enterprise it fully adapt to the cloud. At present, users have many tools to choose from, some tools can assist IT department for virtual machine configuration management, some tools can help enterprises to migrate local business applications to the cloud, some tools can help to orchestrate cloud services, and provide monitoring services across multiple clouds. In addition, the user can also choose Xu ...

In the past, when the concept of cloud computing had not come out, the service providers needed to rely on the strong help of their companies to build their own data centers. But in this cloud era, the ubiquitous application of cloud computing has made the reality quite the opposite. In a special discussion at the interop show, Rackspace's chief technology officer, John Angues, made the point that in the past seven years, people have been paying close attention to the specifics of enterprise development and are doing their best to ...

Amazon's EC2 and Elastic Block Store (EBS) are about the same nature as public clouds. As the cloud computing market grows more mature, enterprises have more and more choices of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) available to Amazon empire. The change in IaaS follows a pattern we can expect. Most providers can provide traditional IT services such as the Amazon and Amazon-like infrastructure services provided by IBM, CSC, and Savvis. Niche suppliers are also menacing is stepping up the pace of rising ...

Sweep 18 Major databases: 12 species of sql+6 nosql remember that two or three years ago there were only a few cloud platform vendors to choose from, it seems that there is not much cloud database in the market. But after the cloud boomed, the cloud database also appeared to be springing up. And what is really reliable and easy to use, for users, and bad analysis. So, this paper analyzes the usability and application direction of 18 kinds of databases (note that the Management database service is not the database instance that still requires user management and implementation). There are still deficiencies, I hope to hear more ...

With the changing cloud world, you want to enter the cloud world in the face of a lot of choices where to go? Here are some examples of the use and testing of well-known cloud services. Before that, of course, we have to know that "cloud" is a service built on hosting your application. auto-scalling-when demand increases, you can automatically get more resources (typically more virtual machines) to respond to requests. This is rarely used in general applications, but it can guarantee that your service will no longer be paralyzed by excessive load, and that it will be icing on the cake only for the purchase you use ...

Before 2013, there may be a wait-and-see or scepticism about the cloud, but after a year of development, cloud computing has completely landed: Big companies are busy with how to deliver faster, more stable and safer cloud services, how to snatch users in the cloud market, and small companies to consider how to use cloud computing to reduce their operating costs. How to make your system into a cloud structure; startups think about how to use the cloud to reduce upfront spending, and even how to use the concept of "cloud" to start a business and sell yourself in front of a VC. According to Gartner, 2013 Global ...

This is the purpose of this article, that is, to faithfully record and try to sum up some of the problems in this process, and share with you. With Amazon's success in the private cloud of public cloud and VMware, companies are taking their own steps in the cloud era, which they want to maintain at a relatively low cost while gaining powerful functionality in their computing resources (host, network, storage) virtualization. This is the driver of IaaS suppliers. IaaS provides automated management of resources. For example, using interfaces, scripts, and even Web serv ...

Cloudstack is the Ctrix company's flagship product in the IaaS market, providing flexible deployment and management capabilities for cloud computing resources. In the first half of this year Ctrix will contribute its source code to Apache, Cloudstack become an open source project. The documentation for such open source projects has been perfected, but as a novice in the cloud computing field tries to install and deploy it, there are still more or less challenges. This is the purpose of this article, that is, to faithfully record and try to sum up some of the problems in this process, with everyone ...