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Chef or Puppet + IaaS = No More Sysadmins?

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Opensource Hypervisors: XEN or KVM

Xen is a hypervisor that supports x86, x86_64, Itanium, and ARM architectures, and can run Linux, Windows, Solaris, and BSDs as guests on their supported CPU architectures. Xen can do full virtualization on systems that support virtualization extensions, but can also work as a hypervisor on machines that do

[Spanish] Cocinando con Chef por Luis Bosque (@luisico)

http://youtu.be/rSIw0pwyfAY En esta charla Luis Bosque (@luisico) nos mostrará lo necesario para empezar a ensuciarse las manos en serio con Chef [1]. Será una charla más o menos introductoria pero que intentará cubrir todos los elementos importantes de esta tecnoloǵia y llena de ejemplos para ver claramente

EEDC Seminars- Iaas and Mobile Apps

One week after the first seminar, we attended to the second day of the EEDC Seminars, the second day was focused in Iaas and Mobile Apps. In this second day, they should talk about Iaas, Saas and Mobile Apps, but finally the seminar about Saas was cancelled. So, the presentations

EEDC Seminars - Big and Open Data

Last Thursday (April, 19th 2012) was celebrated in Barcelona the first day of the EEDC Seminars, inside the Master in Computer Architecture, Networks and Systems (CANS-UPC). The first day was focused in Big and Open Data, you can see the program here. The seminar was divided in two different presentations:

Services following the Moon

We present an example of a very interesting technique: The follow the moon concept The Follow the moon concept means to reduce energy consumption and expenditure taking advantage of nighttime temperatures and lower electricity rates, and so have their computing resources chase in day/night boundary. i.e., migrate to

Traditional On-Premise vs Cloud Computing:

The Cloud computing business motivation is that the resources solutions on demand promise greater flexibility, dynamic, timely and green solution than traditional on-premise computing. Therefore, we must bear in mind that migrate certain parts or all of a classic on-premise IT to Cloud can provide scalability, can reduce the costs

AWS y Eucalyptus : Apuesta de Amazon por el cloud híbrido

“A hybrid cloud is a composition of at least one private cloud and at least one public cloud. A hybrid cloud is typically offered in one of two ways: a vendor has a private cloud and forms a partnership with a public cloud provider, or a public cloud provider forms

Como desplegar OpenStack en tu infraestructura

Actualmente ya es una realidad poder montar escenarios de infraestructura como servicio mediante soluciones como OpenNebula o OpenStack…, de este último nos hemos encontrado con este interesante artículo que explica como construir tu Cloud Privado mediante Openstack con un gran detalle paso a paso. El autor del artículo desplega OpenStack

Microsoft hará llegar Linux en el Cloud mediante Azure

La Linux Foundation explica que las tendencias como la virtualización, el Cloud Computing y la gestión de Big Data son los máximos exponentes a la hora de adoptar Linux en las empresas. http://www.siliconnews.es/2012/01/19/aumenta-la-adopcion-de-linux-en-las-empresas/ Posiblemente Microsoft para contrarestar esta influencia hará llegar Linux a

Latencia, disponibilidad, ... eficacia de tus servicios en la nube.

Es cierto que aspectos como la latencia, el rendimiento… no tienen porque ser siempre uno de los principales criterios en el momento de seleccionar un proveedor de infraestructura cloud. En la mayoría de los casos, su posición en la lista de requisitos vendrá determinada por el tipo de servicio que

Real new job descriptions ?

Cloud Computing is changing many job descriptions: * Cloud Specialist: This professional will “provide expertise, design, engineering, troubleshooting of the cloud environment, collaborate with project managers and engineers to ensure cloud computing best practices are followed and applied.” * Cloud Computing Architect: “Serves a critical role to drive the architect/design and

"Infraestructuras a la Naranja" en la nube

Virtual Cloud MegaCluster (“Thecnomix”) Ingredientes : 3809 máquinas virtuales con 8 núcleos y 7 gigas de memoria cada una, conectividad 10GbE y molde GNU/Linux. Preparación: Para una correcta preparación es imprescindible disponer de una “Thecnomix” equipada con el módulo de gestión de recursos en la(s) nube(s) y una