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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Cloud platform for virtual desktops

Is there any software that itself works on a cloud computing provider? For example, VMWare ACE running on an Amazon EC2 platform? Or perhaps a vendor that provides a virtual desktop solution and hosts it on its own infrastructure? I'm specifically…
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Details on Windows Azure R2 Webrole: Files, Drives, and MSFT-scripts

I'm using Remote Desktop to connect to an Azure Instance and I noticed the following for an extra-small instance of Windows 2008R2: C:\ Drive for the purpose of storing log data. 13.6GB / 19.9GB used D:\ Drive for OS functions 17GB / 25.9 …
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VmWare / Citrix Xen type environment vs Ubuntu Cloud / Amazon EC2 type environment

A bit of background. We run a small in house data center: about 20 virtualized servers (Debian Lenny, Windows 2003, Windows xp and Windows 7 machines), in a Citrix Xen pool running on 3 host servers and a SAN, plus a few standalone machines running…
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Using multiple PaaS Vendors

I am developing a SaaS App, and I want to decide for a PaaS Vendor. Since one of my biggest concerns is uptime, is there an application or service, that allows me to use several PaaS Vendors (like Azure, Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services,…
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Looking for a cloud based NMS similar to monitis but supports OS X

My company is 95% os x and os x server based. Currently we use opennms to do all of our network and server monitoring needs. But we are wanting to offload some of our servers to cloud services and reduce our server footprint. Does anyone know of a…
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Interaction between two Clouds

Possible Duplicate: Interaction between two Clouds I have setup the Cloud-A with 1 - [CLC+CC] and 2 - [NC] computers. I have another Cloud-B with same configuration. [using the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud] Both of them working fine individually, in…
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How can one domain route to an always-changing pool of servers?

I'm sure this is an easy solution, I'm just not too familiar with how DNS works or if that's even related to this problem. If I'm running a web service on amazon ec2, distributed across many instances, how can I make it so a single domain name can…
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Standards for cloud computing

Is there any standards for cloud computing platforms? How is a normal windows platform different from the cloud platform that microsoft provides ( azure) How do I write applications that are portable across cloud platforms? Like say there is a…
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Why is there high load on my cpu if both %cpu usage is low and %memory is low?

I have a Rackspace cloud server running Ubuntu with 2GB memory that is being used as an application server (the html & php files are loaded from this server and the mysql database is on another server in the same datacenter). When the number of…
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Amazon EC2 migration from one region to the other

I'm using the following Amazon EC2 resources in the US East (Virginia) region: 1 Running Instance 1 Elastic IP 2 EBS Volumes 100 EBS Snapshots 1 Key Pair 2 Security Groups 5 My Own AMIs (customized based on my application stack) My instance is…
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Linux & Windows Boot Up Times in Amazon Web Service and Windows Azure

I've been working with Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services EC2 for a good many months now (almost getting to the years range) and I've seen something over and over that seems troubling. With AWS & Linux I commonly get instance startup times with…
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Server bandwidth usage with rtmp streaming of video

Quick question - I am streaming video from Cloudfront using RTMP streaming via an SWF-based flash player on my EC2 instance. With this setup will I see I/O data from the EC2 instance on account of the streaming via the flash player on the…
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Server Virtualization

Is it a good Idea to install two or more virtual operating systems performing the same task on a single server instead of only one? If these virtual operating systems make a cloud, can they respond faster? (Thanks in advance)
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CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel

The Rackspace cloud server tech tells my CentOS 5.4 VPS (Xen) runs "CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel" Could someone explain, in plain terms, what "CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel" means and if there are any disadvantages (performance, mgmt) between that…
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Do Cloud Vendors ensure ACID properties while offering Relational Database services?

ACID properties are important for the RDMS applications.There are many relational database services offered by the cloud providers such as AMAZON RDS and Microsoft SQL Azure. i'm curious about if the ACID properties are provided or not ? thanks.
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