Posts Tagged ‘cloud’
DevOps is really about design
I the early part of the ‘unpanel’ session at last night’s post Cloud Expo London CloudCamp there was a good deal of debate about DevOps and what it means. Some people talked about new skill mixes, others talked about tools. These are I think simply artefacts. The more fundamental change is about design. At the risk […]
Filed under: architecture, cloud, software | 1 Comment
Tags: cloud, cloudcamp, design, DevOps, maintenance, manufacture, maturity, paas, purpose, saas
The 90 day free trial of Azure that I started so that I could describe how to build OpenELEC in the cloud is coming to a close. As I sit here once again waiting for my machine to reboot I don’t think I’ll miss it much when it’s gone. I’ve already written about my issues […]
Filed under: cloud, could_do_better | 8 Comments
Tags: Azure, cloud, iaas, Microsoft, read only, reboot, slow, stability, Ubuntu, unstable, update, upgrade, uptime, VM, VPS
In the first part of this howto I went through signing up for a cloud service, provisioning a VM, installing the build tools and kicking off a build. All being well you should end up with something like this: Azure can also give you a pretty chart of how busy the VM was during the build […]
Filed under: cloud, howto, Raspberry Pi | 4 Comments
Tags: Apache, Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Building OpenELEC in the cloud
When I got my Raspberry Pi pretty much the first thing I did with it was to put on OpenELEC, and excellent shrink wrapped package for XBMC. Initially I started compiling it myself on a local virtual machine (VM), but impatience got the better of me and I downloaded an image provided by somebody else. […]
Filed under: cloud, howto, Raspberry Pi | 2 Comments
Tags: Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Bolting in security
This is a long overdue reply to Chris Hoff’s (@Beaker) ‘Building/Bolting Security In/On – A Pox On the Audit Paradox!‘, which was his response to my ‘Building security in – the audit paradox‘. Hopefully the ding dong between Chris and I will continue, as it’s making me think harder, and hence it’s sharpening up my […]
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Tags: @beaker, audit, bolt, bolt on, build in, Chris Hoff, cloud, control, Forecast, iaas, in, ODCA, paas, security
My friend Randy Bias very kindly came in and did a web conference presentation at work this week on his views of cloud computing (which are well summarised in a post he did at the end of last year). Inevitably the topic of security came up, and Randy, drawing on his past experience in the […]
Filed under: architecture, cloud, security, software | 6 Comments
Tags: audit, bolt on, build in, cloud, compliance, firewall, gateway, iaas, paas, schema, security, validation, xml
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – […]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
A tale of two clouds
Over the past few weeks I’ve been kicking the tyres on two new(ish) entrants to the IaaS space. Both services are still in beta. Savvis Virtual Private Datacenter I first came across this back in June at the Cloud Computing World Forum, and I signed up straight away for a trial. Sadly there was some kind […]
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Tags: API, aws, Brightbox, cloud, Hybrid Cluster, Hybrid Logic, iaas, Ruby, Savvis, snapshot, VPDC
My friend Randy posted a few days ago on Grid, Cloud, HPC … What’s the Diff?. I started to make a comment on the blog, but it was getting too long so I moved it here. Randy does a good job of pinning down both performance and scalability, but in my experience productivity trumps both. This […]
Filed under: cloud, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: cloud, grid, MPI, parallel processing, performance, productivity, scalability
When I registered thestateofme.com some years back it was for a project to allow synchronisation of RSS aggregator/reader state across a number of systems. I never wrote any code because things got overtaken by events. Firstly I discovered RSS Bandit, which had a mechanism to sync state via a WebDAV server (and a number of […]
Filed under: cloud, could_do_better, media, technology | 7 Comments
Tags: audiobook, bookmark, cloud, ebook, media, player, reader, state, sync, synchronisation, video
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