Cloud Computing

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Reliability, Resiliency and Recovery Design Patterns in Cloud Computing Jun 23, 2015 Contingency planning efforts for continuity of operations and disaster recovery are concerned with designing and implementing cloud architectures that provide runtime reliability, operational resiliency, and automated recovery when interruptions are encountered, regardless of origin. The patterns in this chapter from Cloud Computing Design Patterns address different aspects of these requirements.

Designing Software in a Distributed World Oct 1, 2014 This chapter from The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 is an overview of what is involved in designing services that use distributed computing techniques. These are the techniques all large web sites use to achieve their size, scale, speed, and reliability.

What You Really Need to Know About Dropbox Sep 23, 2014 Dropbox offers free cloud-based storage for personal use, with highly affordable options for commercial use. But sharing files via Dropbox comes with some interesting gotchas, especially when large volumes of data are involved or when files are shared by many users. Learn how to handle these gotchas with dispatch and aplomb, and avoid potential loss of access to important files or content.

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Operations in a Distributed World Sep 22, 2014 This chapter from The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 starts with some operations management background, then discusses the operations service life cycle, and ends with a discussion of typical operations work strategies.

Evaluating Cloud Storage Services Aug 18, 2014 You don't need a big hard disk anymore; data is moving from local storage to the cloud. In this article, author Michael Miller examines the most popular cloud storage services for consumers, including Dropbox, Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneBox, and Apple iCloud.

Apache Hadoop YARN: A Brief History and Rationale Mar 24, 2014 This chapter provides a historical account of why and how Apache Hadoop YARN came about.

Data Just Right Video Tutorials: How to Use Hadoop, Hive, Shark, R, Apache Pig, Mahout, and Google BigQuery Feb 26, 2014 Michael Manoochehri provides viewers with an introduction to implementing practical solutions for common data problems. This excerpt from Data Just Right LiveLessonscontains three sample videos: 1. Loading Data into Hive, 2. Writing a Multistep MapReduce Job Using the mrjob Python Library, and 3. Using the Pandas Library for Analyzing Time Series Data.

Designing Networks and Services in the Cloud Jul 12, 2013 This chapter explores the role of the network in enabling the success of business-grade cloud services - moving to the cloud and encouraging the adoption of cloud services by enterprises as well as monetizing those network investments.

Secure Communications on the Cloud with a SOCKS Proxy Feb 21, 2013 IBM Senior Software Engineer Alexander Amies and Advisory Software Engineer Qiang Guo Tong, co-authors on Developing and Hosting Applications on the Cloud, discuss how to use the SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) protocol, working through the cloud to access resources on your local virtual machines and VLANs, even if they're protected by firewall.

Creating a DNS Service on the Cloud Jan 28, 2013 IBM Senior Software Engineer Alexander Amies and IBM Software Engineer Pan Xia Zou discuss how to configure and use a DNS server for management of virtual machines on the cloud. This is described in the context of a cloud-based virtual local area network and scripting to automate network configuration of virtual machines. One of the architects of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform, Alex is a co-author of Developing and Hosting Applications on the Cloud.

Workload Migration for the Cloud Dec 19, 2012 IBM Senior Software Engineer Alexander Amies and IBM Technical Solution Architect Nathan Gibbs discuss various aspects of workload migration and share some case studies that reveal techniques for such migrations. One of the architects of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform, Alex is a co-author of Developing and Hosting Applications on the Cloud.

Cloud Computing Reference Architecture: Data Ingress and Storage Access Oct 24, 2012 Buck Woody, Senior Technical Specialist on Windows Azure at Microsoft, describes how to create a centralized, off-premises (cloud-based) data store that provides flexibility, security, consistency, and guards against vendor lock-in.

Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications: Finding the Structure of Words Sep 20, 2012 Learn how to identify words of distinct types in human languages, and how the internal structure of words can be modeled in connection with the grammatical properties and lexical concepts the words should represent.

What You Need to Succeed in Cloud Environments Sep 20, 2012 Alexander Amies discusses the items you need to run applications and services successfully on the cloud. One of the architects of the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform, Alex is the primary author of Developing and Hosting Applications on the Cloud.

Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Concepts Aug 1, 2012 This chapter discusses Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) concepts with the goal of giving cloud application developers background knowledge and helping them explore why they might want to use cloud computing.

The Significance of Microsoft OneNote Mobile for Android Apr 13, 2012 Peter O'Kelly provides an overview of the new OneNote Mobile app for Android and its role in the expanding OneNote product family.

What’s New with Evernote? Five Big Features Mar 19, 2012 Katherine Murray introduces five new features recently rolled out for Evernote users.

Adding Ink in Microsoft OneNote Dec 12, 2011 After a brief but vigorous campaign by pen users, Microsoft added ink rendering to its OneNote Web App. Office expert Laura Acklen walks you through it.

Cloud Computing: Orchestrating and Automating Technical Building Blocks Nov 28, 2011 This chapter provides a detailed overview of how an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service is orchestrated and automated.