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RSS Coming from the Cloud. Reaching for the Stars. An Interview with Riccardo Di Blasio
The first of a series of thought leadership interviews. Passion is contagious. When I was in high school, I watched the film A Room with a View...
vCloud Air from VMware: Launching your First VM on the ‘Other’ Public Cloud
vCloud Air provides a public cloud platform based on VMware's vSphere. It certainly isn't the only public cloud provider out there, but you can't i...
AWS VMware Hybrid Solutions: the Best of Both Worlds
Looking for the right hybrid on-premise/cloud balance for your VMware infrastructure? There's probably an AWS VMware solution that's just right.I...
vCloud Air OnDemand – VMware’s IaaS and Hybrid Infrastructure Service
(Update March 2019) To get a jump start at VMware training, take a look at Cloud Academy's the Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS course or visit ...
Migrating Virtual Machines to the AWS Cloud
Migrating Virtual Machines: why?In this blog post, we'll discuss how to migrate your on-premise virtual machines to AWS - focusing mostly on the ...
Cloud Technology and Security Alert News Digest – Issue #12
Update 2019: We've been busy working on some great training content around security, check out the Cloud Academy library to prepare on all-things c...
VMware vLockstep: How to Increase FT of Your VMs
Out of the many features that VMware technology support, there is one which is really interesting and lesser known. It is called vLockstep, and it ...
VMware Acquires Continuent: What it Means for the Cloud World
Continuent is the leader in DB Clustering and Replication. I'm subscribed to their newsletter for many years. On October 29, I got an email from Ro...
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If you want to deliver digital services of any kind, you’ll need to compute resources including CPU, memory, storage, and network connectivity. Which resources you choose for your delivery, cloud-based or local, is up to you. But you’ll definitely want to do your homework first. In this...
The 11 AWS Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in cloud computing.As the market leader and most ma...
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Microservices are a way of breaking large software projects into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).Microservices have become increasingly popular over the past few years. The modular architectural style,...
AWS Certification Practice Exam: What to Expect from Test Questions
If you’re building applications on the AWS cloud or looking to get started in cloud computing, certification is a way to build deep knowledge in key services unique to the AWS platform. AWS currently offers 11 certifications that cover major cloud roles including Solutions Architect, De...
S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon’s S3
Is it possible to create an S3 FTP file backup/transfer solution, minimizing associated file storage and capacity planning administration headache?FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a fast and convenient way to transfer large files over the Internet. You might, at some point, have conf...
Prerequisites to Learn Cloud Computing – Introduction
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What Exactly is a Cloud Architect and How do You Become One?
Note from Editor: Readers can explore the latest trends in technical skills in demand for Cloud Architects using Cloud Roster™, the data-driven job role matrix updated weekly.One of the buzzwords surrounding the cloud that I am sure everyone reading this post has heard of is "Cloud ...
How DNS Works – the Domain Name System (Part One)
Before migrating domains to Amazon's Route53, we should first make sure we properly understand how DNS worksWhile we'll get to AWS's Route53 Domain Name System (DNS) service in the second part of this series, I thought it would be helpful to first make sure that we properly understand...
How to Use AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is for managing your AWS services from a terminal session on your own client, allowing you to control and configure multiple AWS services.So you’ve been using AWS for awhile and finally feel comfortable clicking your way through all the services....
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: A Study Guide
The AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification (or Sol Arch Associate for short) offers some clear benefits: Increases marketability to employers Provides solid credentials in a growing industry (with projected growth of as much as 70 percent in five years) Market anal...
What are the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud?
If you’re like most businesses, you already have at least one workload running in the cloud. However, that doesn’t mean that cloud migration is right for everyone. While cloud environments are generally scalable, reliable, and highly available, those won’t be the only considerations dri...
Amazon DynamoDB: 10 Things You Should Know
Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL service with strong consistency and predictable performance that shields users from the complexities of manual setup.Whether or not you've actually used a NoSQL data store yourself, it's probably a good idea to make sure you fully understand the key ...