Last Week’s Top Cloud News Stories
The Cloud Hits the Mainstream: More than Half of U.S. Businesses Now Use Cloud Computing – Forbes Research by Virtustream has shown that Cloud Computing is living up to the hype; in that around 54% of...
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Microsoft Azure for Cloud Novices
Background I recently published an article comparing the ease of use of Amazon’s EC2 and Rackspace ‘Cloud Servers’. The strong reaction it got made me realize the importance of usability when comparing...
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1. Survey Says: Multi-Cloud Usage Growing, DevOps on the Rise | Data Center Knowledge A DevOps division was present in over 54% of respondents to a recent survey, and only 8% had no intention of...
View ArticleAn S3 anti-pattern
One anti-pattern that we have observed during the course of building our intelligent monitoring product has to do with how companies use Amazon S3. S3 is a great product, unmatched in its simplicity,...
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5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Stackdriver
To celebrate our public beta launch today, I’ve assembled instructions for those of you new to intelligent monitoring on how to make the most of Stackdriver. Following these tips should get you off to...
View ArticleDetermining the ID of Your Cloud Instances
When working with cloud resources, it’s often useful to know the (unique) id of the resource instead of using a name. This is especially true when tying data together into multiple systems and connect...
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1. Stackdriver Opens its Cloud Monitoring Service for Business | GigaOM On Tuesday, Stackdriver launched its Intelligent Monitoring Service for AWS and Rackspace to the public. Unlike other cloud...
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The Broken State of Alerting for Cloud Apps
Over the past year, I have met with at least 200 people who manage applications that run on the public cloud. Few topics are as frustrating to this group as the current state of alerting systems....
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1. Debian Linux Will Serve As The Default OS For Google Compute Engine | TechCruch Google have chosen Debian as their default OS for GCE; their new Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. Experts say...
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Using Tags to Organize AWS Resources
Tagging is an important capability that helps AWS customers streamline the process of managing their environments. In this first in a two-part series, I provide an overview of tagging, describe how one...
View ArticleCommon AWS Problems & Solutions
Although AWS is known for its wide array of features and reliability, problems can still occur. Here is a list of the most common AWS problems and what you can do to solve them: Availability Ephemeral...
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Huskies Driving Innovation at Stackdriver
During the past few months, my focus has been on explaining the impact of our product on consumers, but for the past few days I’ve been pondering the impact of Northeastern University on our culture...
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AWS OpsWorks Monitoring – Strengths and Drawbacks
Today, Amazon announced that they had integrated monitoring into the OpsWorks service. Compared to the initial version of the service, this is a significant step forward and should increase the appeal...
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This week’s top cloud news stories: 1. Google Cloud Platform Opens To General Availability With 3 Million Applications, New Pricing And PHP | TechCrunch The tech giant announced at their I/O...
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An AWS User’s Journey
From talking to 130+ of our cloud monitoring customers about their AWS environment and perspective, we at Stackdriver find ourselves in a unique position to talk about the journey that AWS users find...
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1. Dell Quits Public Cloud Race, Enlists Partners | Datamation Dell have put a hold on plans to launch a public cloud service, and are now instead offering a service whereby they suit clients with...
View ArticleInterning at Stackdriver
I first heard of Stackdriver, “a Boston based startup”, when Izzy approached me. He gave me an overview of what they were up to, and I was hooked. Stackdriver was exactly what I was looking for in my...
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1. Killer Cloud: Report Says Amazon Web Services Threaten IT Incumbents | GigaOM In fitting with recent reports in the past month, Morgan Stanley have sung AWS’ praises; tipping it to threaten the...
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This week’s top cloud news: IBM to Acquire SoftLayer | IBM Blog On Tuesday, IBM announced that they would acquire the world’s largest privately held IaaS vendor for an undisclosed amount. Their hope is...
View ArticleThe Most Dynamic Tool in Your Kit
Comparatively speaking, I don’t know much about about cloud computing, DevOps or SaaS. You may be asking yourself, “Matt, how did you get a job as a Support Analyst without knowing these things?” I...
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