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New Service Alert: Windows Azure ExpressRoute

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(2)

Currently in public preview & available only in the US, Windows Azure ExpressRoute is a service that provides a dedicated fast private connection between your on-premise datacenter and Azure datacenter.

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Eucalyptus 3.4: What to look out for?

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

There is no second thought to the fact that when it comes to developing apps for AWS, Eucalyptus is the most preferred private cloud platform. And with the new release of Eucalyptus (3.4) there are more enhancements available now for cloud administrators.

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SAP on AWS – Part 2

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

AWS Services for running SAP

In this second part of SAP on AWS series, we focus more on AWS and look into the different services that are relevant for running SAP on AWS and their use cases in an SAP environment.

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SAP on AWS

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

SAP is a very interesting workload for cloud and in this first part in a series of articles around running SAP on AWS (Amazon Web Services), I will talk about the benefits and some parameters to consider before running SAP on cloud along with some use cases and then focus on running SAP on AWS in the later articles.

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Sample Questions for Exam 70-583: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(5)

This is in continuation to my previous blog where I shared my experience and general information about Microsoft’s Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Exam. Here are some Sample Questions* to give you a look & feel about the exam. Answers with explanations are at the bottom.

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Preparing for Microsoft’s PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Exam 70-583

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Sangram Rath | Comments(1)

I recently appeared for and cleared the Microsoft PRO: Designing and Developing Windows Azure Applications Exam & would like to share my experience and insight about the exam for all aspiring candidates.

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Windows Azure New Service Alert: Read Access Geo Redundant Storage (RA-GRS)

Posted on December 25, 2013 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

On December 12th Microsoft announced the preview of it newest service targeted at providing durability to business critical data, the Read Access Geo Redundant Storage or RA-GRS for short.

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What’s new in OpenStack Havana

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

OpenStack has evolved continuously with every release and with Havana release we have yet again a set of new features that make it even easier to build and deploy OpenStack clouds.

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Private AWS Cloud-in-a-box in 30 minutes

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

Last week at Dell World 2013 in Austin, which is Dell’s annual user conference, Eucalyptus showcased the data center version of AWS Cloud-in-a-box.

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Eucalyptus & Dell partner to provide Cloud-in-a-box solutions

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Sangram Rath | Comments(0)

Eucalyptus cloud software is now available as part of the Dell Technology Partner Program on their server, storage and networking equipment as a “Cloud-in-a-box” solution. A Dell specific architecture developed by Eucalyptus forms the foundation for cloud deployments on Dell hardware.

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