Newvem Community
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April 21, 2013
Availability and Uptime Management is one of five components in the ITIL Service Delivery area. It is responsible for ensuring application systems are up and available for use according to the service criticality and the defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Your uptime management team should analyze your online business availability requirements and ensure that optimized, cost-effective contingency plans are put in place and tested on a regular basis to ensure an online robust service that meets the business needs. For example, Internet ecommerce systems may have almost zero recovery RTO (Recovery Time Objective) in comparison to less critical, non-customer-facing applications where even a few days of recovery can be provisioned on a less expensive cloud infrastructure with limited redundancy capabilities.
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Sean Hull
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February 20, 2013
What does a cloud computing expert need to know? Let’s dig into deploying applications in the cloud, and day to day operations skills. There’s a lot of material here. I recommend picking a few questions out of the bunch and focusing on those questions, rather than trying to cover all of them.
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Newvem Community
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February 5, 2013
DevOps aims to streamline communication and processes between development and operations teams. Developers want to be creative, to work quickly and release new features all the time. Operations, on the other hand, prefer slow and steady work, making sure that all the new features don’t have bugs that will cause the system to crash. DevOps provide the key needed to streamline communication and processes between these inherently opposing teams.
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Ofir Nachmani
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January 1, 2013
One of the most important features of the cloud is the sharing of resources by multi-tenants. It is this sharing that enables the cloud operator to provide scalability and support “economies of scale” for its business. If the utilization of these resources is to be optimized, these resources must be shared between the cloud consumers.
What is Steal Time? The basic metric for how a server utilizes its CPU is the idle capacity – the amount of CPU that is free.
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Max Büchler
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December 19, 2012
During the year I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with people, read and study a lot of articles, sayings, and opinions about Cloud Computing. Finally, when as 2012 winds up, I’ve noticed some interesting positions in the Cloud community and definitely, last but not least, in the business community as to who uses or wants to use services provided through Cloud Computing. Here are some of my conclusions about what will happen during the coming year 2013 > Congratulations! High school begins!
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Zev Laderman
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November 4, 2012
There’s more to cloud analytics than just saving costs.
When companies really know how to take advantage of cloud computing to increase profit and margin, they have the opportunity to achieve real cloud “nirvana.” The cloud can become a natural extension of their data center. Here are five ways cloud usage analytics contribute to a company’s bottom line -
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Newvem Community
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October 30, 2012
The following presentation was created by Ryan Shuttleworth, Technology Evangelist at Amazon Web Services, in collaboration with Adam Bidwell, eCommerce Manager at Kurt Geiger. In a sequence of very informative slides, they discuss how retailers are using AWS to carry out a number of business critical functions.
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Ofir Nachmani
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October 28, 2012
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Last week was an exciting and busy one for the cloud community in Israel. Two important annual Cloud Computing conferences took place in the vibrant city of Tel Aviv: The IGT Annual Summit and the Amazon Cloud Tel Aviv 2012 Summit.
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Taral Shah
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July 19, 2012
Currently IT departments and infrastructure providers are under increasing pressure to provide computing infrastructure at the lowest possible cost. Evolution of the Cloud computing paradigm has made software systems more scalable with a cost-effective approach. One of the most popular and innovative Cloud infrastructure providers is Amazon Cloud Services (AWS).
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Max Büchler
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June 12, 2012
Yes! We have Public, Private and Personal and now the Multiculti cloud. Joke! Multiculti cloud is like flying international instead of domestic or as a matter of fact – just taking the subway a couple of stops. Where do you think you will get most out of your trip? Do you want to stay safe in the hoods or do you want to expand your cloud journey and adopt international cloud services? It might be a good idea to look over the hill, ocean or border.
Resource: http://www.wired.com/cloudline
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