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| Inside the hybrid cloud, Part 3: Administration
When a hybrid cloud is created, the objective is to craft a solution that appears
and functions seamlessly for the user, performs flawlessly, and secures the entire system
from malicious and erroneous activities. To make all this happen, some IT fundamentals must
be painstakingly planned and managed. Part 3 of this series peeks under the hood to see what
it takes to make the hybrid powerhouse a reality.
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Articles | 25 May 2012 |
| Inside the hybrid cloud, Part 2: Federation is key to XaaS
Services in the cloud are increasing rapidly. As more and more cloud computing projects
are implemented, the ever-expanding collection of cloud tools and services required to
manage an enterprise seems to be growing exponentially. The implementation of a federated
cloud with an appropriate command and control regimen is the key to managing this growth. Part 2 of this series describes the hybrid cloud in more detail as well as the federated cloud,
which is the epitome of the hybrid cloud formation.
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Articles | 22 May 2012 |
| Develop software faster with continuous integration
Continuous integration is a software development practice in which members of a team integrate their work frequently; usually each person integrates at least daily which leads to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach significantly reduces integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. Therefore, continuous integration, especially in the early stage of development process, can greatly improve the efficiency and help find potential issues as soon as possible. The authors describe the practice of continuous integration using the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise as the framework.
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Articles | 17 May 2012 |
| Create and customize virtual application patterns
Platform as a Service virtual application patterns are realized by supporting a
combination of application-centric deployment models, virtual applications (consisting
of individual components and policies), the infrastructure and middleware they employ,
and workload-specific content -- extensions or "plug-ins" that define components,
links, and policies used to describe and deploy virtual application patterns, such as
those usable on both the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise cloud and IBM PureSystems. This
article explains how to get started with the IBM Workload Plug-in Development Kit and
on your way to creating and customizing virtual application patterns.
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Articles | 24 Apr 2012 |
| Meet the IBM Cloud Simulator for Tivoli Service Automation Manager
The IBM Cloud Simulator for Tivoli Service Automation Manager provides an automatically created simulation of a customer's Tivoli Service Automation Manager-enabled system that enables developers to create effective prototypes and get a taste of private cloud service management and administrative functions. The authors introduce the IBM Cloud Simulator, available on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 23 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM PureApplication System, Part 1: Onboarding applications overview
This article series helps you understand how to
prepare for and maximize the value of IBM PureApplication
System in your organization from an application-centric point of view.
Part 1 highlights the PureApplication System capabilities as they relate
to the application lifecycle. The article also helps you identify and
onboard your existing applications as workloads. Think of this article as
your roadmap to guide you through the rest of the series.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Using the IBM Workload Plug-in Development Kit
Learn to set up the samples environment in Eclipse, create new projects from the command line, build a single plug-in and pattern type with command-line tools, and develop a plug-in with the Eclipse framework.
Also available in:
Japanese
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Discover PureApplication System patterns of expertise
This article offers a gateway of understanding into the IBM PureSystems
family of expert integrated systems by providing a tour of the structure of the IBM
PureApplication System and virtual patterns of expertise. Specifically designed for transactional web and database applications,
PureApplication System solutions are packaged into patterns built for easy deployment
on the cloud. Find resources you need to expand your knowledge of how to develop and deploy using the PureSystems technology.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Design a virtual system pattern
Virtual system patterns in IBM PureApplication System enable fast and repeatable
deployments of systems from the virtual machine up to the application. With a virtual system pattern, manual tasks that are needed to bring up your entire topology can be fully automated, which allows an application to be deployed in minutes as opposed to hours or days. Pattern-oriented deployment of middleware eliminates bugs introduced by error-prone, manual configuration processes and allows best practices to be baked into patterns, thereby accelerating and optimizing deployment of solutions. In this article, the authors highlight key points to review when designing and developing a virtual system pattern.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Deploy new applications on IBM PureSystems with plug-ins, Part 1
The introduction of IBM PureSystems takes cloud computing to new
heights. One way to prepare an application to leverage IBM PureSystems is to craft a
plug-in, a bridge between the application package and the system. In this article, the authors, IBM Cloud labs team experts, describe the development efforts to enable SugarCRM on IBM PureSystems.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Manage the topology with virtual system patterns
In the IBM PureApplication System environment, a virtual system pattern is the critical element that allows a user to rapidly set up and manage the cloud middleware topology; a virtual system pattern describes a middleware topology and employs the tools to automatically build that topology in the cloud. IBM PureApplication System virtual system patterns are the captured essence of years of infrastructure-management experience and best practices. Virtual system patterns encapsulate repeatable topology definitions based on various middleware images and runtime configurations; they give you control over the middleware landscape being deployed. In this article, the authors introduce you to virtual system patterns and their place in the ecosystem, describe their components and functions, and provide a basic look at how to create and use a virtual system pattern.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Deploy new applications on IBM PureSystems with plug-ins, Part 2
The introduction of IBM PureSystems takes cloud computing to new
heights. One way to prepare an application to leverage IBM PureSystems is to craft a
plug-in, a bridge between the application package and the system. Part 1 describes the development efforts to enable SugarCRM on IBM PureSystems. SugarCRM is a PHP application that requires the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). LAMP is not supported by IBM PureSystems out of the box, so the team developed a new pattern type and a set of plug-ins that support the modeling, deployment, and operation of the application atop the base Linux and IBM AIX image.
This article addresses the lessons learned
from their development efforts.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Automate your virtual cloud appliance onto IBM PureFlex System
IBM PureFlex System is a cloud-ready, expert, integrated system that brings
together the infrastructure and application layer with proven patterns. PureFlex
System can be specifically optimized to meet specific needs, providing all of the
infrastructure elements required to run your workloads in a single system. To further the IBM PureFlex System advantage with a speedy time-to-deployment, there is the IBM Virtual Appliance Factory toolkit that automates the deployment of your cloud appliance -- your application along with the appropriately configured operating system and middleware -- onto KVM and PowerVM cloud environments. Take a tour of the toolkit.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Manage application services with virtual application patterns
In the IBM PureApplication System environment, a virtual
application pattern is the critical element that allows a user to rapidly set up and manage cloud application infrastructure; a virtual application pattern describes an application, and employs the tools to build the appropriate infrastructure for the application and then deploys the application to that infrastructure. IBM PureApplication System virtual application patterns are the captured essence of years of application-infrastructure-deployment experience and best practices. Virtual application patterns encapsulate optimized solutions of multiple middleware elements to host specific types of application workloads. In this article, the authors introduce you to virtual application patterns and their place in the ecosystem, describe their components and functions, and provide a basic look at how to create and use a virtual application pattern.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM PureApplication System: Article series on onboarding your applications
This 5-part article series prepares you
for IBM PureApplication System in your organization from an application-centric
point of view. The articles cover the tools that will help you quickly
onboard your applications.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM
PureApplication System, Part 4: Onboarding applications to the cloud using the Advanced Middleware
Configuration tool
Part 4 of this article series identifies applications that you can migrate to
IBM PureApplication System and how to use the Advanced Middleware Configuration
tool and IBM Workload Deployer to migrate the applications and to deploy new instances
of them into the cloud.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM PureApplication System, Part 5: Developing virtual application patterns for IBM Workload Deployer with
Rational Application Developer
Part 5 of this article series shows how to combine the software
development features of IBM Rational Application Developer with the virtual
application pattern assembly capabilities of IBM Workload Deployer to develop
cloud applications. With Workload Deployer, you can assemble virtual
application patterns consisting of Java EE enterprise applications, Web
applications, OSGi applications, and other types of components. However, as an
application developer, it is predominantly the source code of the components
of the pattern you need to work with the most. The latest integrated features
of Rational Application Developer and Workload Deployer will help you develop
virtual application patterns from the source code on up.
Also available in:
Korean
Portuguese
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Tutorial | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM
PureApplication System, Part 3: Choosing a database option
Part 3 of the article series
introduces the integrated DB2 database formats that are found in IBM
PureApplication System. It describes the different forms of DB2 found in
PureApplication System, helps you decide which forms to choose in
different situations, and covers some of the recommended best practices
using DB2 inside PureApplication System.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| Preparing for IBM
PureApplication System, Part 2: Is your application ready to become virtual?
Part 2 of this article series examines how you can decide which
deployment option is best suited for your particular application.
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Articles | 11 Apr 2012 |
| An overview of monitoring and alerting features in IBM WebSphere Cast Iron
Cloud Integration
This article describes the monitoring and alerting capabilities of IBM
WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud Integration through the Studio and the Web
Management Console.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 04 Apr 2012 |
| Configure a complex cloud app test system
Cloud applications continue to grow more complex, making the task of rapidly
delivering a cloud solution, whether it is just a production-level application or an
intricate virtual application or system pattern, more difficult. To answer this challenge, the author examines the complexity involved in attempting to establish a working, easily repeatable Collaborative Lifecycle Management system (CLM) running on a WebSphere Application Server using DB2 as the database.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 22 Mar 2012 |
| Inside the hybrid cloud, Part 1: Redefine services and delivery methods
Agility, scalability, and profitability are driving enterprises toward cloud
computing. This is a response to the ever-changing economic, financial, and technical
developments confronting business entities today. These changes demand new ways of
thinking, working, and doing business. The development of the hybrid cloud is based in
this new reality. Part 1 of this two-part series looks at the hybrid cloud, the services it
makes available, and the new business paradigm it has engendered.
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Articles | 22 Mar 2012 |
| Standardize image management with the IBM Virtual Image Library
As more users change from running applications on physical computer systems to running applications on virtual machines, the number of virtual machine instances and VM virtual images in a typical IT infrastructure will expand rapidly; tracking each virtual image's contents and configuration is already a significant issue. Standardization is one answer to controlling the proliferation of virtual images and IBM Virtual Image Library technology employs the concept in order to handle the growing number of virtual images. The authors introduce the architecture of the library and provide examples in the form of common image-management scenarios.
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Articles | 19 Mar 2012 |
| Cloud and industry, Part 3: Telecommunications solutions
Part 3 examines a novel process-centric PaaS.
Service Storm, a cloud enabled self-service telecommunication prototyping
platform, is a PaaS model.
Learn how this rapid integration model lets non-technical users create applications by
assembling registered services, mashups, built-in rules, events, and database
services. Examine how cloud technologies and Service Storm enhance PaaS
capabilities in telecommunication solutions and enterprise environments.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 13 Mar 2012 |
| Create solutions on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise: Best practices and tools
Models, tools, and concepts start this series of articles that describes the use of software bundles, image management, and other tools on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise to solve practical problems in enterprise IT management. This article presents an overview of software bundle and image management
concepts, explains the resource model, compares this platform to other software
package management platforms, discusses use cases, and surveys the tools available.
The concepts are illustrated with the use of an example energy-saving calculator application.
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Articles | 09 Mar 2012 |
| Build a cloud failover policy
Proactive reliability. Many organizations still employ a
"reactive" response when a failure occurs instead of taking more prudent proactive steps: The creation of a cloud failover policy with cloud-specific riders, each detailing components and tasks. The author provides a roadmap for such a policy and illustrates policy riders and scenarios of what proactive actions should be taken when failures happen.
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Articles | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Manage a J2EE app with TSAM extensions
IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) V7.2.2 introduces the extension: A set of TSAM software components that can implement a new IT service automation solution (known as a service definition) or add capabilities to existing service definitions. In this article, the authors explain how to tune the load balancer policy to your system's needs; how to add and remove application servers as the workload of the business application changes; and how to modify the firewall rules and why you might need to do that.
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Articles | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Build a regulatory compliant web application
This article proposes creating three classifications for each type of data your organization owns, then using those classifications to determine how to apply security to each type of data as you design the application that will use the data. It's called Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing (RC3).
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 02 Mar 2012 |
| Data.gov for government agencies
Because people are more aware of the value of open data,
entire new economies have sprung up around its use and management. In
2009, the U.S. Federal Government launched Data.gov, a site to aggregate
feeds of government data. Pressure on agencies to publish information at
Data.gov has been steady. The Open Government Directive of 2009 requires
all Federal agencies to post at least three high-value data sets online
and register them on Data.gov. Learn about Data.gov, the basic information
your agency needs to know to participate in this revolution in government,
and ideas for doing so efficiently.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 28 Feb 2012 |
| Manage failure points in cloud application design
As the ubiquity of web-based applications increases, reliability of those applications becomes an increasingly critical requirement. In this article, the author examines what application reliability really means in a cloud-based world and explores a range of approaches -- reduction, management, detection, and avoidance -- to improving the uptime of your cloud applications.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 24 Feb 2012 |
| Convert single-tenant applications into multi-tenant applications
The authors share experiences gained from their work converting single-tenant
SOA application into multi-tenant cloud solutions; these best practices are packaged into seven important tips.
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Articles | 22 Feb 2012 |
| Repair cloud virtual machine cloning errors
External data provisioning requirements such as network configurations
like IP addresses can cause problems when cloning a virtual machine to use in
a new environment. If the external data is not available during the process,
the reconfiguration of the VM will likely be incomplete. The authors offer a
way to handle this problem, even without much knowledge of the application or
without a form of activation scripting to help. Runtime Image Activation (RIA)
is a prototype command-line interface that lets you orchestrate networking techniques to make sure your cloned VMs are appropriately configured.
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Articles | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Import a Linux OS to SmartCloud Enterprise
Based on his own experiences successfully importing versions of CentOS and Ubuntu to IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, the author explains how to prepare your image and metadata, what kind of tools are required, how to set up your workbench, and delivers some tips for troubleshooting the process.
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Articles | 20 Feb 2012 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 3: Cloud-based robotics for education
Explore robotics and how the cloud
makes it more economical and available, with a broad range
of sensors, actuators, computational resources, and applications. Remote access to a wider
range of physical systems that can be time-shared and location-shifted, plus simulation
and building instances on site, will vastly expand access to robotics. Today, thanks to the cloud,
hands-on interaction with remote robotics is more feasible. This article provides a
starting point for cloud-based robotics educational strategy.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 14 Feb 2012 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tip: Build multiple VPNs and VLANs
Release 2.0 of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise introduces several new
features. Two of these features are the ability for an IBM SmartCloud Enterprise account to have multiple virtual private network tunnels (VPNs) into a IBM SmartCloud Enterprise data center and multiple virtual local area networks (VLANs) in each data center. The authors examine the details of these new features.
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Tips | 06 Feb 2012 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 2: High-performance computing for education
Part 1 of this series focused on the tools, methods,
and strategies for using the cloud. This article explores
high-performance computing (HPC) from supercomputers to warehouse-scale
computers and how the cloud makes supercomputing for educators and students
more economical and available, with a broader range of architectures and
scaling elasticity. In the past, students were often only able to read about
supercomputers. Today, with the cloud, hands-on in HPC is much more feasible.
This article provides a starting point for cloud-based HPC educational
strategy.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 31 Jan 2012 |
| Deploy a J2EE app with TSAM extensions
IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) 7.2.2 introduces the extension,
a set of TSAM software components that can implement a new IT service
automation solution (known as a service definition) or add capabilities to
existing service definitions. In this article, the authors define a scenario
in which the desired result is to securely deploy a three-tiered enterprise application (in this case J2EE) to the cloud. They demonstrate how to set up and provision extensions in TSAM as the first step to accomplishing this task.
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Articles | 26 Jan 2012 |
| Designing a database for multi-tenancy on the cloud
Learn some considerations that new software as a service
(SaaS) vendors need to take into account when developing applications or
modifying existing ones to enable them for multi-tenancy on the cloud. The article
discusses the considerations only from a database perspective --
specifically, from an IBM DB2 perspective. Six cases or methods are described.
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Articles | 26 Jan 2012 |
| What's new in IBM Workload Deployer V3.1
IBM Workload Deployer has always been state-of-the-art in terms of cloud
computing for middleware and middleware applications. This overview of the
latest release, version 3.1, shows how IBM Workload Deployer continues to build on
its strong foundation by expanding its capabilities and platform support.
Whether your organization is just getting started in the cloud or is well
along in the journey, you'll see how IBM Workload Deployer delivers the capabilities you need to successfully run your enterprise applications in the cloud.
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Articles | 25 Jan 2012 |
| Java development 2.0: Securing Java application data for cloud computing
Data security is a serious concern for organizations considering cloud
adoption, but in many cases it needn't be. In this installment of Java development
2.0, learn how to use private-key encryption and the Advanced Encryption Standard to
secure sensitive application data for the cloud. You'll also get a quick tutorial on encryption strategy, which is important for maximizing the efficiency of conditional searches on distributed cloud datastores.
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Articles | 24 Jan 2012 |
| Measure UI performance on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
The author debuts a framework for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise that lets
you establish an automated, UI performance-measuring system that engages
Fiddler, a web debugging proxy. This article explains the framework, Fiddler, the performance metrics that are captured by the system, and how they are important to UI performance measurement.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 18 Jan 2012 |
| Avoid vulnerabilities and threats in the cloud
The cloud has been one of the most talked about technologies since Web 2.0. While the cloud has been lauded for its promise of cost savings, many organizations hesitate to pursue cloud-based solutions for security reasons. Like any other technology, the cloud is vulnerable to malicious attacks, but those who understand what security challenges they may face in the cloud find that they are able to better secure their resources that reside there.
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Articles | 13 Jan 2012 |
| Craft a SaaS-oriented vulnerability mitigation policy
Many businesses and industries depend on web-based software to run business processes, conduct transactions, and deliver services to customers. When a deadline looms, organizations may get frantic and sacrifice secure features to bring the application into production. This is a fast (and reactive) solution that results in a usually defective application. A better, proactive solution is to create a SaaS-oriented web application vulnerability mitigation policy (and employ a SaaS-based vulnerability scanner) into place that anticipates application vulnerabilities and has several solutions to repair them ready to go. The author will provide a roadmap to such a policy and illustrate using a scanner tool in the form of IBM Rational AppScan products.
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Articles | 12 Jan 2012 |
| Secure virtual machine instances in the cloud
The Internet is a very hostile place for a server to be running. Security is a crucial element of any deployment of compute resources within an enterprise and even more important when moving those resources beyond the physical walls of an enterprise. With the growth of cloud-based infrastructures, sometimes inexperienced or unaware users do not consider how important security is in a public cloud. In this article, the authors discuss some of the topics which need to be considered when a virtual machine (VM) is provisioned in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 09 Jan 2012 |
| Elevate cloud security with privilege delegation
In this article, the author discusses the needs that drive migration of
data centers into the cloud, details the role of virtualization in both public
and private cloud infrastructures, and outlines the security and compliance
implications of cloud computing in order to provide insight into the
protection of sensitive data in the cloud through "administrative access" and "privileged delegation."
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Articles | 14 Dec 2011 |
| Java development 2.0: Redis for the real world
Redis has a lot in common with memcached but it boasts a richer set of
features. In this month's Java
development 2.0, Andrew experiments with adding Redis (by way of Java-based variant Jedis) to his location-based mobile application. Learn how Redis works as a simple data store, then try repurposing it for ultra-fast, lightweight caching.
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Articles | 13 Dec 2011 |
| Implement secure SSH access to IBM Cloud
Understand how to upgrade, choose, and implement a highly effective, Secure Shell
(SSH) connectivity solution to the IBM Cloud by examining some recent
trends underlying the migration of enterprise-level, remote computing to the
cloud. Look at key areas to consider when making the shift from in-house
handling of key processes to a cloud-based solution. Explore an existing end-to-end,
server and client SSH security solution and see how it addresses real world regulatory requirements.
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Articles | 08 Dec 2011 |
| Establish a system to build custom virtual cloud images
Virtual images allow users to freeze-dry preferred software environments and deliver them to users in a rapid and consistent manner: As a result, companies are turning to virtual images as a means to improve software delivery within their data centers. As they make greater use of virtual images, challenges are emerging -- such as determining how much content to put into a single image and how best to construct these images. The authors discuss these challenges and introduce the IBM Image Construction and Composition Tool (ICCT), freely available for download, that addresses many of these challenges and provides a systematic approach to constructing virtual images in the cloud.
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Articles | 07 Dec 2011 |
| Cloud-based education, Part 1: E-learning strategy for instructors
Whether students choose to learn over distance or in person at a traditional
campus, the power of e-learning and virtual collaboration is growing fast in education
and the global economy. That power is best realized with a well planned cloud
computing and e-learning strategy. This article, the first in a series on cloud-based
education, focuses on what instructors can do to encourage best practices at their
institution and adopt them in their classroom.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Articles | 05 Dec 2011 |
| Cloud computing: Build an effective cloud policy
This knowledge path introduces concepts on building an SOA and governance IT policy. It then provides insights on different types of policies you may find useful when dealing with a cloud computing environment and delivers templates you can use to write various cloud computing environment policies.
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Knowledge paths | 18 Nov 2011 |
| Java development 2.0: Git-commit your Java apps with Heroku's PaaS
Meet Heroku, a Ruby-based PaaS that brings a winning combination of configurability and ease-of-use to Java application development and deployment in the cloud.
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Articles | 15 Nov 2011 |
| Automate the build and release process on the IBM Cloud using Rational Build Forge
The authors explore how you can use IBM Rational Build Forge -- an adaptive process-execution framework that automates, manages, and tracks the processes between each component involved with software development -- to automate the build and release process in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. They explain the steps involved in using Build Forge and Build Forge Agent to automate a process and provide an example through a use case.
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Articles | 08 Nov 2011 |
| Speed cloud application development
The cloud affords economies of scale that application developers need to help accelerate development of scalable applications, leveraging the full benefits of available resources. In this article, the authors introduce the concepts that extend the developer pool for creating business logic for web dialogs to better leverage your cloud applications. See how true application acceleration actually works using Alphinat SmartGuide.
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Articles | 01 Nov 2011 |
| Automate development and management of cloud virtual machines
A recent trend has been to build a strong connection between cloud application and service development and operations; in particular, this trend is leading to a tighter, more efficient integration of application life cycle management (ALM) tools with cloud computing. In this article, the authors will show you how to use the open source Apache Maven build management tool to automate build and deployment projects on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. They will also demonstrate how to integrate the management of virtual machines on the cloud into the build and deployment life cycle by developing an Apache Maven plug-in that looks up and creates virtual machines that run a J2EE application server on the cloud. You'll also discover best practices for development and deployment on the cloud and how to use IBM Cloud API's and Maven to implement these practices.
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Articles | 29 Oct 2011 |
| Video: Setup CohesiveFT VPNCubed
This video demonstrates how to setup CohesiveFT VPNCubed on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise servers in the Road-Warrior scenario. VPNCubed lets you create an overlay network and thus isolate your servers by using encryption. A VPNCubed image is available in the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise catalog.
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Tips | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Video: Use the RESTful API on the IBM Cloud
This video shows some ways to use the RESTful API provided by the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Tips | 27 Oct 2011 |
| Video: Install and use the command line API
A video by IBM Cloud IT Architect Dominique Vernier showing how to install and use the command-line API on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Tips | 24 Oct 2011 |
| Develop, deploy, and maintain custom enterprise applications with zero coding
What if you could start from zero and have a ready-to-use application
deployed in a private or public cloud in less than a day? What if you could
discuss requirements with an end user over coffee, implement a solution in a
sandbox, handshake it with the originator, and deploy it to production, all in
15 minutes? In this article, the authors explain how point-and-click PaaS technology changes your cloud development and deployment dynamics and show you when it might be a better choice for development than the traditional methods.
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Articles | 19 Oct 2011 |
| Cloud computing with a pattern-based approach
IBM Workload Deployer is a cloud management appliance that delivers a patterns-based approach to deploying and managing application environments in the cloud. From the perspective of a user, deploying meaningful application environments implies the ability to customize to meet their specific requirements. With that need in mind, IBM Workload Deployer provides a number of facilities that address a wide range of customization needs. This article focuses on the customization capabilities presented to users for the new virtual application deployment model.
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Articles | 18 Oct 2011 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tip: Tailor image validation rules on the fly
IBM SmartCloud Enterprise provides a dynamic way to customize cloud
images. You can transfer parameters on the fly to the instance creation process to create your final customized image. When your image is shared among a group or promoted to be public, users of your image will provide parameters to create their own instances by the Portal or an API. But you want to make certain that users are creating the instances properly and are providing the correct input. In this article, the authors introduce a set of rules you can use when parameterizing an image, including regular expressions, known patterns, CompoundRules, and metaphor-based validation.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Tips | 17 Oct 2011 |
| Craft security policy for mobile devices
Enterprise users are not bound to one mobile device to access a cloud service: A user can choose to enroll more than one mobile device to an enterprise server for better device access flexibility. This flexibility makes having corporate security policy more critical than ever. To help you understand security for mobile device access to the cloud, the author illuminates the service delivery model view and the device view of the environment and presents service delivery model scenarios with checklists.
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Articles | 17 Oct 2011 |
| Secure multi-user access to IBM Cloud instances with VNC and SSH
Using Secure Shell (SSH) and Virtual Network Computing (VNC), learn how to configure servers and clients
for a production-quality, secure means of remote graphical access to cloud instances
served by IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 13 Oct 2011 |
| Develop applications using a collaborative, user-centric model
Mobile device computing, considered by many IT professionals to be a
perfect complement to cloud computing, is essentially a user-centric function.
What would happen if a user-centric model is applied to developing and
deploying cloud applications? One that also allows for intense socially collaborative input into the design and building phases and that lets you execute the result in a completely virtual space? The author details this type of system and demonstrates it with a real-world example.
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Articles | 13 Oct 2011 |
| Get started with Hadoop-based data analytics on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
Cloud computing and big data analytics go together -- cloud provides the benefits of elasticity, on-demand access to resources, and utility-like billing while big data processing/analytics delivers a framework to take advantage of cloud resources. The combination of cloud and Hadoop make it possible to handle large amounts of structured and unstructured data. In this article, the author explains how to get started using Hadoop (in the form of InfoSphere BigInsights Basic) on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise. Learn how to set up a three-node cluster and verify your cluster is working.
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Articles | 11 Oct 2011 |
| Practical approaches to cloud-based high availability
Although high availability (HA) is a complex activity, regardless of the application,
clouds and their virtualization platforms actually make this objective simpler and more
straightforward. Virtualization as an abstraction from the physical platform creates a new
opportunity for HA. In this article, explore some of the practical approaches to cloud-based
HA, including stateless failover and the more useful stateful failover. Also, discover the
various open source software components at play in HA systems.
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Articles | 11 Oct 2011 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tip: Secure access for Android devices
Learn how to connect an Android mobile device to an IBM SmartCloud Enterprise instance via an OpenSSH connection. The author shows you the steps you need to take to install and configure an Android smartphone to connect to the IBM Cloud in a secure way. The starting point is an IBM Cloud instance that is accessed by a secure PuTTY connection from a Windows system.
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Tips | 10 Oct 2011 |
| Cloud computing: Fundamentals
This Knowledge path introduces cloud computing concepts and the cloud service models Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), which are a foundation of cloud computing.
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Recover data in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise
The ability to recover "data" is a critical requirement seen in almost
every solution. This is true throughout the solution's entire life cycle --
design, development, test, and production. It is even more important in public
cloud environments where service level agreements tend to be less defined than
those encountered in traditional in-house or hosted deployments. In this article, the authors look at the capabilities provided by IBM SmartCloud Enterprise that can be used to provide various levels of data recovery of IBM Cloud resources. In addition, they explore other services and techniques that you may want to consider while deploying data in the cloud.
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Articles | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Cloud computing: Introduction to Infrastructure as a Service
Learn about the key attributes of Infrastructure as a Service and the importance of planning for a successful cloud implementation.
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Korean
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Cloud computing: Introduction to Platform as a Service
Whether you're a student or an IT professional, particularly if you're interested in cloud and network administration, this Knowledge path
will familiarize you with the application layer of cloud computing, known as Platform
as a Service.
Also available in:
Portuguese
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Cloud computing: Introduction to Software as a Service
Gain insight into Software as a Service (SaaS), the application layer of cloud computing, and the opportunities and challenges presented by SaaS.
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Knowledge paths | 07 Oct 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Dive into the Xen hypervisor
This article describes the features, deployment processes, and VM management issues for the Xen hypervisor. Xen started as a virtual-machine monitor for IA-32, x86-64, Itanium, and ARM architectures. It allows several guest operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. Xen systems have a structure with the Xen hypervisor as the lowest and most privileged layer.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Learn about hypervisors, system virtualization, and how it works in a cloud environment
Read about hypervisor types and system
virtualization in the first article of this series.
This series starts with a background on hypervisor types, system virtualization, and
then offers a look at the features of five hypervisors, their deployment processes,
and the management issues you might encounter.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Dive into the KVM hypervisor
This article describes the features, deployment processes, and VM management issues for
the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. KVM is a virtualization
infrastructure for the Linux kernel that supports native virtualization on processors with hardware virtualization extensions. Originally, it supported x86 processors, but it now supports a wide variety of processors and guest operating systems including many variations of Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Haiku, ReactOS, and the AROS Research Operating System (there's even a modified version of Qemu that can use KVM to run Mac OS X).
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Dive into the z/VM hypervisor
This article describes the features, deployment processes, and VM management issues for the z/VM hypervisor. z/VM is the current version of IBM's virtual machine operating systems, z/VM runs on IBM's zSeries and can be used to support large numbers (thousands) of Linux virtual machines.
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Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Dive into the VMware ESX Server hypervisor
This article describes the features, deployment processes, and VM
management issues for the VMware ESX Server hypervisor. VMware ESX Server is a "bare metal" embedded hypervisor which runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system. It is supported in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Hypervisors, virtualization, and the cloud: Dive into the PowerVM hypervisor
This article details the features, deployment processes, and VM management issues for
the PowerVM hypervisor. PowerVM is a feature of the IBM POWER5, POWER6, and POWER7 servers and support is provided for it on IBM i, AIX, and Linux operating systems. PowerVM is supported in IBM SmartCloud Enterprise.
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Articles | 23 Sep 2011 |
| Innovations within reach: The parameters that matter most for creating interactive diagrams on mobile devices
IBM ILOG Dojo Diagrammer includes a comprehensive set of graph layout
algorithms that come with a vast number of customization parameters. This
article provides a quick reference guide of the most important parameters for
each algorithm, along with the parameters that can significantly influence performance. It also provides hints for optimizing the diagramming applications using graph layout on mobile devices.
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Articles | 21 Sep 2011 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tip: Span virtual local area networks
Release 1.4 of IBM SmartCloud Enterprise offers several new features;
one of these is the ability for an instance to have primary and secondary TCP/IP addresses on different virtual local area networks (VLANs). This feature enables the ability to provision and configure an instance that spans the public, Internet-facing VLAN and an enterprise account's private VLAN established by an optional virtual private network (VPN). This article
describes those features.
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Tips | 16 Sep 2011 |
| Grid and P2P add to automated testing on the cloud
As cloud computing dives deeply into its latest trend, the proliferation of instances of mobile device access, testing the explosive numbers of new applications could be an obstacle to speedy deployment. Automated testing on the cloud is the answer to that roadblock. In this article, the author discusses adding grid computing and peer-to-peer collaboration functionality to make automated testing on the cloud more effective; he also provides an example of a real-world system and scenario.
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Articles | 12 Sep 2011 |
| Cloud computing with Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 offers bare-bones computing power for pennies. In this demo, Andrew Glover introduces EC2's generic infrastructure service and demonstrates how to get started.
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Demos | 12 Sep 2011 |
| Craft a cloud performance metrics policy
Often businesses and agencies use performance metrics to measure how well the system is performing; not as often do they use them to measure how well cloud services are performing. In this article, the author explains why it is best to be proactive using cloud performance metrics to fix the problems before service outages could happen and provides three proactive steps -- on monitoring performance, testing performance, and crafting a cloud performance metrics policy -- to help you avoid poor cloud performance.
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Articles | 06 Sep 2011 |
| Verify the CloudBurst 2.1 Tivoli software stack
The advantages an appliance brings with it are often achieved by complex
tasks; many times this complexity is hidden by the interface to the appliance, giving the user a limited view of the entire configuration and integration points. But a user may need to verify or re-verify the software stack when the environment changes (restoring backup images in a disaster recovery scenario), making modifications to hardware configurations (like when you add new blades) or software configurations (like when you add new networks with VLAN tagging). In this article, the author provides a quick guide to verifying the IBM CloudBurst 2.1 Tivoli software stack.
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Articles | 26 Aug 2011 |
| Java development 2.0: Ultra-lightweight Java web services with Gretty
Gretty is one of a new school of ultra-lightweight frameworks made for building web services. Built on top of the blazingly fast Java NIO APIs, Gretty leverages Groovy as a domain-specific language for web endpoints and Grape's Maven-style dependency management. In this article, get started with using Gretty to build and deploy Java web service applications.
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Articles | 16 Aug 2011 |
| Cloud metering and billing
Organizations can get a better handle on resource use and cost when they work in the
cloud. Learn some of the metering and billing options that both established and
up-and-coming technologies offer in the cloud.
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Articles | 08 Aug 2011 |
| IBM SmartCloud Enterprise tip: Deploy a complex topology
In this article, the author details the concepts behind a deployment utility tool and explains how to use the tool to deploy an application with a complex topology on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise; the tool is not a part of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise offering. The author uses the term "complex topology" to mean a topology that contains multiple resources -- instances, storages, addresses, and so on -- and also a topology that possesses the ability to launch scripts to set itself up in terms of interconnection and software.
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Tips | 05 Aug 2011 |
| Innovations within reach: Leveraging the IBM Workload Deployer CLI to automate WebSphere application
deployments
Middleware environments are becoming increasingly complex.
Developers search for ways to eliminate time spent waiting for others to deploy new application code, administrators cope with the emergence of
clouds and ever-faster software release cycles by automating the deployment
process, and managers know they can save significantly in time and money by
eliminating inefficiencies in the IT workflow. This article describes possible
ways to address these needs by integrating IBM Workload Deployer into an
existing automation software lifecycle solution with XebiaLabs' deployment
automation product, Deployit.
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Articles | 03 Aug 2011 |
| Easy virtual app automation using Workload Deployer
A virtual application is a customer-designed entity that contains industry
standard artifacts that can be deployed on enterprise middleware components and a set
of policies that govern runtime behavior of the application once it is deployed. In
this article, the authors demonstrate some of the concepts behind building virtual applications, including automating the build process using patterns; real-world examples are provided using version 3.0 of IBM Workload Deployer.
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Articles | 27 Jul 2011 |
| Java development 2.0: Play-ing with Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS, part of Amazon's growing PaaS family, lets you increase your application's relational data storage capacity with just a few clicks.
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Articles | 19 Jul 2011 |
| Real-world journey to your own private cloud, Part 1: Prepare the concept
In this article series, the author outlines the process, from conception to deployment, that his team used to build a private, on-premise cloud environment that incorporates structures found in IaaS and PaaS cloud service models. The cloud environment is constructed with software and hardware components chosen by the team; however, the article contains knowledge and instruction that can be used regardless of technologies you choose. Part 1 provides information on cloud structures, the five phases in the development roadmap, and details on some of the solutions the team discovered.
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Articles | 11 Jul 2011 |
| Real-world journey to your own private cloud, Part 3: Use the cloud
In this article series, the author outlines the process, from
conception to deployment, that his team used to build a private, on-premise cloud
environment that incorporates structures found in IaaS and PaaS cloud service models.
The cloud environment is constructed with software and hardware components chosen by
the team; however, the article contains knowledge and instruction that can be used regardless of technologies you choose. Part 3 defines IBM Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) user roles, provides an example of the cloud provisioning process and a list of sample exercises the user can do to test the implementation, and shows you some general tricks and tips we learned in implementing the project.
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Articles | 11 Jul 2011 |
| Real-world journey to your own private cloud, Part 2: Install and configure the software
In this article series, the author outlines the process, from conception to deployment, that his team used to build a private, on-premise cloud environment that incorporates structures found in IaaS and PaaS cloud service models. The cloud environment is constructed with software and hardware components chosen by the team; however, the article contains knowledge and instruction that can be used regardless of technologies you choose. Part 2 provides information on installing and configuring the server environments and cloud software components, post-installation activities, and special features of the installed software.
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Articles | 11 Jul 2011 |
| Best practices for cloud computing multi-tenancy
Discover best practices and tools for creating cloud computing multi-tenancy
architectures as well as initial planning for scalable and highly available infrastructures.
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Articles | 05 Jul 2011 |
| Optimize cloud application delivery systems
The structure of the cloud demands that all of its components must
effectively optimize their use of available resources; that includes
components like the application delivery system. In this article, the author introduces the concepts that make up a "traffic management" model designed to effect better delivery of your cloud applications. Become acquainted with the application delivery controller (ADC); learn how you can leverage the features that make your services more resilient to faults and more snappy for users; discover how to use an ADC to overcome scalability problems in web infrastructure; understand the difference among various load balancing options; and gain insight into how true application acceleration actually works through a real-world application of these concepts.
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Articles | 29 Jun 2011 |
| Build a more secure, mobile cloud environment
Users and providers of mobile device access to cloud environments can expect
cyber attacks to continue to exploit weaknesses in cloud networks; however, many lessons from the early days of securing desktop environments have carried over to mobile cloud computing. In this article, the author illuminates mobile cloud security issues by looking at the current state of cloud security breaches, vulnerabilities of mobile cloud devices, and how to address those vulnerabilities. He also discusses potential future issues in securing the mobile cloud and opportunities for developers.
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Articles | 24 Jun 2011 |
| Craft a cloud service security policy
For economic reasons, often businesses and government agencies move data center operations to the cloud whether they want to or not; their reasons for not liking the idea of hosting in a cloud are reliability and security. To help ease business security concerns, a cloud security policy should be in place. In this article, the author explains how to craft a cloud security policy for managing users, protecting data, and securing virtual machines.
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Articles | 23 Jun 2011 |
| Harness the power of the cloud with IBM Workload Deployer V3
IBM Workload Deployer V3 is not just another release of the IBM WebSphere
CloudBurst Appliance. While it builds on WebSphere CloudBurst's success, and supports and improves upon all of its original capabilities,
Workload Deployer provides new application-centric computing capabilities for your private cloud, and brings you higher utilization, improved ease of use, and more rapid application deployment.
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Articles | 22 Jun 2011 |
| Innovations within reach: Bigger, better, faster elastic caching
The IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance is a combination of the
latest robust DataPower hardware platform and state of the art IBM distributed
caching technology. XC10 Version 2 is a firmware and hardware upgrade that
further improves performance, quality, serviceability and scalability of your
elastic caching tier. This brief article will acquaint you with newest features of the XC10 firmware and provide a look under the hood of the new hardware.
Also available in:
Japanese
Portuguese
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Articles | 22 Jun 2011 |
| Architecting applications for the cloud
Learn how to architect cloud-ready applications that are easier to deploy, maintain,
and scale. From designing for read-only file systems to architectural patterns like event sourcing,
investigate approaches that make it easier for your applications to run on cloud-based
computing platforms.
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Articles | 06 Jun 2011 |
| Build proactive threshold policies on the cloud
Often businesses and agencies implement technical, organizational, and business policies to ensure that users comply with the terms in the policy; in other words, to inform cloud computing service consumers and providers what they should do. This is the purpose of a carefully crafted threshold policy -- too often, this level of policy does not exist. In this article, the author explains how to craft the policies with examples; follow these templates on purpose, scope, background, consumer control, actions, and constraints to learn to craft resource, user, and data request threshold policies for the cloud.
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Articles | 30 May 2011 |
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