Do you Auto-Scale your Cloud? Do you automatically shut down, resize or schedule your cloud compute resources?

Auto-scaling is one of the most important features for cloud computing. In order to really benefit from the cloud and ensure your capacity meets demand, you need to be able to scale your cloud’s allocated capacity automatically (up or down)  at any given time.

In comparison to the limited capacity of the traditional data center, the cloud has (at least in principle) infinite resources; auto-scaling being the basic feature of this perception. Auto-scaling configuration should react to a variety of monitored thresholds such as CPU load or even RPS (requests per second).

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The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. To discuss these benefits, we brought together Joe Weinman, author of Cloudonomics, and Patrick Pushor, founder of CloudChronicle.com.

In a conversation that was aired live on May 16, 2013, Joe and Patrick discussed the basics of managing workloads across the cloud, the benefits of migrating cloud workloads between private, public, and hybrid clouds, and the business value of cloud computing.

Check out their conversation here!

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This video presents an overview of the new features and capabilities of Newvem Analytics for Windows Azure.Newvem Analytics for Windows Azure allows you to:

1. Plan your cloud strategy
2. Measure your usage
3. Analyze your cloud’s cost, assets, and utilization
4. Improve your overall cloud performance

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We are thrilled to announce the launch of Newvem Cloud Operations Optimization for Windows Azure. This latest offering empowers Windows Azure users with straight forward visibility into their cloud inventory and usage, enabling better decision making, minimalizing operational exposures, and aligning cloud operations with business objectives.

Built for the Enterprise

Azure offers a natural extension to enterprise IT operations by allowing them to relieve IT resources and prevent bottlenecks.  With this powerful solution, enterprises can respond quickly to market needs with Microsoft’s enterprise-grade reliability. Public Cloud adoption in the enterprise centers on the developers need to provision servers to address the enterprises IT needs as well as meet new demands.

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The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds while striving to achieve interoperability values within their systems. This article aims to answer some of the questions that arise when managing cloud workloads.

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Business Insider yesterday published a list of the 20 hottest startups from Israel. More than 4,800 startups have made their home in Israel, second only to California’s Silicon Valley! With so much competition, it’s a tremendous honor that Newvem has made the cut!

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Organizations world-wide are moving their business to the cloud. The cloud offers a business concept that encourages improved scaling, robustness, and cost efficiency by following a pay-as-you-go model. This event will feature a one-on-one discussion with Joe Weinman, founder and author of Cloudonomics, and Patrick Pushor, CTO and Founder of CloudChronicle.

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Newvem’s Utilization Heat Map enables you to visualize your 30-day cloud usage by hour, region, business activity, and more in a single glance.

Did you know that more than 15% of clouds are underutilized? That’s more than $30M of the $200M in EC2 spend that Newvem has analyzed over the past year! Such a waste but it can be easily remedied with Cloud Utilization Heat Maps!

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Will you be at the AWS Summits in New York City or San Francisco this month? Wanna meet up? We’ll be at both events in full force armed with tons of surprise giveaways.

Want to learn more about the many new offerings by Newvem like DevOps On-Demand, the Utilization Heat Map, and Cloud Care to name a few? Let’s set up a time to talk. You can email me (Cameron) at Cameron@newvem.com or tweet me at @cameronperon.

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Newvem has partnered with CloudAcademy and is now sponsoring an AWS trivia game

We invite you to stop by and test your AWS knowledge.

We established the Newvem community in order to crowd-source cloud knowledge and support. While trying to understand the level of proficiency of current AWS cloud users, we found many users just getting started while many more have been architecting and developing for the Amazon cloud from the beginning.

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