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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Recommend a Rackspace Cloud Server API Language Binding?

Rackspace publishes only a hard-to-use HTTP and JSON/XML based "API" (they call it an API but it's really a non-standard Web Service without a WSDL). There are dozens of open-source language bindings to choose from. I have tried three of them so far…
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How to put 1000 lightweight server applications in the cloud

The company I work for sells a commercial desktop/server app that runs on any non dedicated Windows PC or server and uses Tomcat for all interactions with the application. Customers are asking that we host their instance of the application so they…
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Distributed computing for a company? Is there such a 'free' thing?

I am new to the whole distributed computing / cloud thing. But I had an idea at work for our multimedia stuff like movie encoding / cpu intensive things tasks (which sometimes take a few hours). Is there a 'free' (linux?) way to go about using a…
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Cloud Computing - Multiple Physical Computers, One Logical Computer

I know that you can set up multiple virtual machines per physical computer. I'm wondering if it's possible to make multiple physical computers behave as one logical unit? Fundamentally the way I imagine it working is that you can throw 10 computers…
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Is it possible to guarantee 100% uptime in redundant hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?

I'm interested in find a hosting that can offer really 100% of uptime. Is it possible in hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?
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How to upload stuff to Amazon EC2 Windows instance?

I've never used Amazon EC2 - I am thinking to test a few instances for running intensive computation processes I have a requirement for rather than buying real hardware. I am given to understand the thing is quite easy to setup - but I have no clue…
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Does cloud storage replicate the data over many datacenters if so it means i benefit content delivery network?

Let's assume that i want to use cloud storage service from one of the cloud storage provider, i got X gb structured and unstructured data and i will use this data as my contents of my interactive web page. And now i have some doubts about this…
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Rackspace Cloud servers backing up

Is there anyway to backup an image of a rackspace cloud server? something thats easy to do instead of running scripts backing up each db and fs. This seems like something easy to do on EC2 and impossible to do on rackspace cloud. Also i know…
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Stuck on "Instance is being verified"

I've created instance groups of min. 2-instances by using Google Cloud. When I hover over the state of the instance group it says it is transforming while the instances are being verified. Please help,
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How should I interpret disk IOPS listed by cloud hosting providers vs. those listed by drive manufacturers?

When I look at disk (block device) storage options from various cloud hosting providers, I usually see numbers such as : Google Cloud (Zonal SSD) : 15.000 - 100.000 read IOPS OVH Cloud : (High Speed / SSD ) : Up to 3.000 IOPS AWS : (io1 / SSD) : Up…
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shutting down the google cloud account and project totally, how to save VMs apps and Services?

We have an order to shutdown google Cloud enterprise account now. We were running more than 50 VMs and apps, now the question is how to get these backup'ed and presrve it for future use or may be possible to go with new cloud provider in the…
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Cloud Computing for HPC

I'm looking into if cloud-computing services (e.g., AWS but others as well) can feasibly supplement the traditional clusters (such as Comet, Stampede2, Pleiades) I've been using to solve fluid dynamics problems. That is, I'd need to run my code (not…
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I am on Rackspace Cloud. What is Bandwidth Out and Bandwidth In?

Can someone give me very easy to understand examples? And how to calculate? Suppose someone views a page off of my web server. This page is 400kb. How much is the bandwidth in and out for me?
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Understanding Nutanix features

From a very high level view: Open Stack is sort of framework to manage your cloud but you need to implement things Cloud Stack / Cloud Shift / Rancher are more or less solutions to get your cloud running but less customizable Then, where does…
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What is the difference between the cloud disks supported by Alibaba Cloud?

When creating an ECS instance on Alibaba Cloud, I often get an option to choose a cloud disk e.g. from Ultra Cloud disk and SSD cloud disk. What is the difference between these cloud disks and what kind of implications do they have on the…
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