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How to Run Hadoop on Google Cloud – Part 2

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Setting up and working with Hadoop can sometimes be difficult. Furthermore, most people with limited resources develop on Hadoop instances on Virtual Machines locally...

Encryption in the Cloud: An Overview

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In this post we will look at how to secure your AWS solution data using encryption (if you need a primer on encryption here...

How to Run Code in the Cloud with AWS Lambda

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AWS Lambda is a new compute service introduced by AWS to run a piece of code in response to events. The source of these...

Is OpenStack a ‘Jack of All Trades, Master of None’ Cloud Solution?

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OpenStack looks like all things to all people. Casually perusing their website you can see that it emphasises the cloud solution’s high-level features –...

3 Reasons Why “the Cloud” Is a Terrible Metaphor (and One Why It Isn’t)

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I have a lot of feelings about “the cloud” as a metaphor for networked computing. All my indignation comes too late, of course. I’ve...

Cloud Security Tips: Locking Your Account Down with AWS Identity Access Manager (IAM)

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With the growth of cloud services such as Google’s Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s Web Service, and many others,developers and organizations have unprecedented access...

Deploying a Docker Container to the Cloud, Part 2

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I previously wrote about app containerization using Docker, and if you’re unfamiliar with that concept, please read that post first. In this post, I'm...

Dispelling the myths of hybrid cloud

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The words "vendor lock" worry me more than I'd like to admit. Whether it's having too many virtual machines in ec2, an expensive lambda...
Polaris GPS: Rubrik's new SaaS platform for data management applications

Will Oracle become a key cloud player, and what will it mean to development...

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This sort of question and provoke some emotive reactions, and many technologists despite the stereotype can get pretty passionate about our views. So let...

The biggest cloud adoption challenges

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The cloud technology industry is growing rapidly, as companies are understanding the profitability and efficiency benefits that cloud computing can provide. Public, private, or...