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Cloud Computing and Security – Most Common Cloud Computing Security Risks
The security risks involved with cloud computing were critical considerations when my company was eager to take advantage of this innovative technology. We needed to perform a risk assessment of all cloud-computing hosting services
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It’s all About Unified Storage
In today’s business environment, one of the most prevalent concepts to surface over the past decade is through the realization that centralization is a key factor in improving productivity. By bringing everything into a
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First hand review of Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012, formerly codenamed Windows Server 8, is the next release of Windows Server currently under development by Microsoft. It is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server
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Did Zynga Make the Right Decision In Joining The Cloud Arena?
Zynga, a household brand name for social network gaming, has made an interesting move of housing its own private data centers. This monumental business leap provides Zynga more opportunities to hold its position as
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AWS adds SMTP support for Amazon Simple Email Service
Until now, sending email using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) required writing code or using software that specifically supported SES. That’s changed with SES now supporting the ubiquitous SMTP protocol. SMTP is used by most
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AWS Console shows scheduled operations
AWS has updated the AWS Console to show scheduled operations that will affect an EC2 instance. Typically these are operations that AWS need to perform on an instances, including: system reboot – typically for
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CloudPassage security for EC2
As a member of the AWS solution providers program, CloudPassage provides security to customers using Amazon EC2. CloudPassage Halo is a server security platform, purpose-built for the cloud, to deliver multiple layers of defense
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Naked domains and custom domains on CloudFlare and PHPFog
For our new web site design we decided to go with a cloud-based host, settling upon recent startup PHP Fog which allows a very quick setup of WordPress. Whilst under development the site was
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There is now an increasing choice of PHP-specific PaaS providers which ease the deployment and management of PHP applications onto EC2, such as PHP Fog
Read More »Getting started on CloudFoundry.com
For this article we're going to attempt a deployment using the Cloud Foundry command line tool
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