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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Can I configure non-Google Cloud resources as origin for Google Cloud CDN?

As soon as I proceed to add a new origin for Google CDN distribution, it asks me to choose from load balancers (I would prefer not to create load balancer). Ignoring the fact that I don't want to create a load balancer, I go ahead and create one on…
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Can we install and run VMware ESXi on a parallels server?

I would like to install parallels and then install ESxi on top of it to get the distributed storage, Is this possible??. Is there any free tools available in VMWare o do the same?. I'm a newbie, need some guidance. I would like to create a private…
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Running a DNS Server in the "Cloud"

On previous projects I have relied upon the data centre to handle my DNS. However recently we have been moving more projects to various "cloud" solutions. Is it a good idea to run a DNS server on a VPS in the cloud? If so is there any good…
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Tradeoffs between cross-cloud and cross-AZ-single-cloud deployments

We have a educational system (federated microservices that are running mostly on AWS EC2, RDS MySQL and a message queue) that is already distributed across regions, primarily for latency hiding, though it has been useful for failovers. We're now…
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Should I regard openstack cloud servers as just another type of virtualization?

If I were to set up physical servers for running a business critical website, I would absolutely build redundancy into that environment. I would strive for no single point of failure and as a minimum run two servers of each role (two web servers,…
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When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com?

I had asked this question on StackOverflow. It was suggested to post it here too. When should one use the following: Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and Salesforce.com? Please share your understanding and experiences.
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How can I dynamically scale cloud servers to provide an on-demand hosting service?

I'm interested in using Rackspace Cloud Servers API to build myself a dynamically scalable hosting service. The Cloud Servers API allows me to add and remove server instances programmatically. System Requirements There would be a single shared…
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Openstack: Starting multiple shutoff intances

I am using Openstack Icehouse running on Ubuntu. After rebooting Compute node all instances that were running there will be in shutoff state. Is there way to restart them all at once? Only thing I found from the documentation was starting them…
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Can I create local AMI file for future use on various cloud service?

Is it possible to locally create a single AMI file of say Debian Jessie and use it directly (or with little changes) on any AMI-compatible cloud service providers (eg. AWS, CloudStack, Digital Ocean or Rackspace)?
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Confused about horizontal scalling

Please correct me if I am wrong but I guess handling more requests and load by adding more machines or balancing the load between multiple servers is horizontal scalling. So, if I add more servers, how do I distribute the database? Do I create one…
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When using the puppet node init command, are the parameters to specify in the answers.install file

On puppet-enterprise version 3.3.1, I am attempting to use the puppet node init command on a VMware puppet master node hosted on a VMware VSphere client with VCenter 5.1.0. My puppet master node has its permission configuration on another remote VM…
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MAAS and openstack

I am confused how MAAS (Metal as a service) is different from Cloud? What is the difference or similarities between MAAS and openstack, are they both same or different
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Justification of Amazon EC2 Performance

I have a .jar file that represents a server which receives over TCP an image in bytes (of size at most 500 kb) and writes it file. It then sobels this image and sends it over TCP socket to the client side. I ran it on my laptop and it was very…
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What are some common tagging strategies for EC2 in multi-team environments?

Given a company with multiple teams using EC2, what are some common or practical strategies for setting some TAG guidelines when instances or ami's are created so that resources can be more easily searched and filtered?
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Running KVM vms on top of vmware vms

Is it possible to run a KVM (not qemu) VM on top of a Linux VM running in VMWARE ESX 5? Are there specific settings for that? No care about poor performance.
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