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• As you grow your infrastructure on Amazon Cloud additional monitoring is imperative. Here is an excellent "how to" for recording memory utilization as a custom metric: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=266893 Related articles New Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts (aws.typepad.com) Report memory utilization to CloudWatch on Amazon EC2 (james-singh.com)
• I have acquired four Raspberry Pi Model B devices since they were initially released - one of which has the upgraded 512MB RAM that I am so desperately anxious to play with. As such I identified a number of excellent learning projects to start with - some already complete and others pending: Nintendo Game Console replacement (complete), WebIOPi interface (complete), XBMC Media Player (complete). The one I am most anxious for is (more…)
• I write a lot about Amazon Web Services as that is what I am most familiar with but I wanted to post a comparison for contrast. I was actually quite impressed with the competitiveness across services (which included AWS, Google CE, and Windows Azure). Still, I would say hands-down Amazon is the cheapest overall and most businesses are unlikely to disburse their resources across multiple clouds (although that leaves the door open for numerous other discussions I am certain I will entertain at a later date). Google is lacking (more…)
• The Changing Role of the CIO [Infographic] via Guy Kawasaki, "Cloud users save an average of 21 percent annually by moving apps to the cloud"
• Find out more about how you can use the AWS Storage Gateway to reduce the cost of your departmental backup and file share storage by joining our Dec 5, 10am PST webinar. During the webinar, we’ll discuss how you can easily deploy our recently launched Gateway-Cached volumes feature to reliably back up your on-premises data to Amazon S3. We'll also discuss how you can seamlessly store your corporate file shares on Amazon S3, minimizing the need to scale your storage on-premises, while retaining low-latency access to your frequently accessed files. After the presentation, we will be answering questions from the audience.
• Join AWS, Avnet and Riverbed Technologies to learn about Avnet's Cloud Backup for Enterprise, a data protection solution that seamlessly combines industry-leading deduplication, encryption and WAN acceleration from Riverbed with Amazon S3. Learn about Avnet's promotion for a pre-configured solution that offers no commitment, subscription fee service to support your Enterprise and Mid-Market customers. >> Register now to attend the live webinar on Dec. 6 Related articles Quantum Provides Direct Access to Q-Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery With Symantec OST Integration (sys-con.com) Symform Forecasts Top 6 Cloud & Storage Predictions for 2013 (wtiablog.org) Protect your business with cloud backup (simplybusiness.co.uk) Cloud backup service protects Salesforce.com, Google Apps data (zdnet.com) Arq cloud backup adds low-cost Amazon Glacier support (tuaw.com)