Cloud Computing
Not much talk in the media about cloud computing. If you do not know what it is, you should! In fact, in most cases are already using some cloud-based applications.
Have you ever heard of Gmail? Webex? Microsoft Windows Live? YouTube? eBay? Of course you have. Here are some sites to get the idea. Cloud computing is the use of resources that exist in any other computing platform for running applications. This means that you worry less (if you trust the host) on the amount of processing power, memory and storage you have.
What is the advantage of cloud computing?
Advantages to use multiple applications to exist in the cloud, including:
Access Anywhere Access your applications from anywhere with an Internet connection with your own computer, or through shared access devices such as an office or library.
Pay for what you use cloud services are free (paid for by advertising) or provided on a pay as you use the type of model. It's great because you easily increase or decrease depending on your needs. You have to implement a new initiative? Great - fast with another person on the platform ramp. Do you want to close a range or change? Not very big, but at least you do not have the sunk cost of custom hardware / software platforms for concern.
Various innovative developer / shared software support are urged to continuously improve their products. This can be used simultaneously by multiple users on improvements in the product because they are part of a common platform. Because applications are live, if there are any improvements or corrections to be applied, then you can take it as soon as they have been enabled to access.
How can I prepare for cloud computing?
Because their data and software that is hosted somewhere else, your Internet connection is more important. You do not want to deal with pushing their applications into the cloud brakes only slow internet!
In addition, you want to have the security to ensure that your data is safely achieved in the cloud. Basic Firewall can be sufficient if the data is sensitive, but can be done even more if the data must be protected. There is a new generation of devices, the application security solutions are available, such as ADTRAN product suite of unified threat management. (Www.adtran.com). This type of product is the application you are working with, and are capable of both secure transactions and traffic for your critical applications have priority over prioritize Facebook or YouTube!
Get on board!
Let us not leave the train of cloud computing without the station. There is no doubt that this is the wave of the future. All aboard. Familiarize yourself. As one of the company, so perfectly on technology, while always an advantage, not only the status quo.
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Technical Docs the cloud
Cloud computing has recently emerged among the favors of your computer. Also included is the SaaS (software as a service) development. Instances of cloud computing is Google's Gmail - a contrast to install locally on your PC, installed on a remote server using the Internet user is browser.Question, progress, technical documentation in the same direction? We will see some approaches.
Why are the clouds?
There are several reasons that cloud-based technical writer to use tools for creating do come to light.
First is the cost factor. Instead of buying a connected application, the cloud on the tools, are usually a monthly fee. If you go to a DITA environment, cloud computing can mean spending a viable option. Is generally a cost associated with acquiring an option to DITA is an excellent example.
Here are some other reasons in the cloud depends on the tools are an economical solution.
Where can I rent a technical device or contractors, the cloud can add a fast and easy way to provide computer editing system.Cloud in general, how on a collaborative writing context.In cases that went to a technical editor work outside, making the cloud offers the possibility of minor changes to the documentation at a later date.
Check in / out of appearance
If your company has a personal or remote collaborative writing, which is not really necessary to change a cloud depends on the system. Tools for companies such as FrameMaker and RoboHelp to use a check in / out design instead of a cloud model-dependent. Technical writers can change the content of an article, then it from afar. The writer, then you can check the content back to the topic by email.
For check in / out working model to help you make must be installed on the computers of the author. You can also keep tabs as you type. However, this is an approach worthy of reflection.
Cloud Leaders
Several companies have employees on their existing network remote controlled blinds. The Company expects that the personal cloud - a VPN (virtual private network). Basically, the guys decide if the teleworker that have network access.
Alternatively, you may be given a personal cloud of State. A server in the cloud may be using the Amazon EC2 service options, or by companies such as Rackspace or Azure.
If you do not inform people of IT to create your own VPN chosen to ensure that their company IT policy.
The reason for the choice of a cloud depends on the system as is the case in the technical department of the letter, as it is with other groups. As time passes, it is likely that this service can take a flight.
Melvin Fernandes is a developer of information in Duchakki. Responsible for technical documentation and preservation of content. His expertise is in writing technical documentation (paper and online), help text and content development.
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Management services from the cloud came, to create, develop and implement new developments in methods of cloud computing. The role of suppliers is higher when organizations move their products and services in the cloud and want a third party to manage the servers in the cloud. Yes, you're right, the service provider to offer cloud services companies to manage their affairs in connection with the clouds, so that companies can focus on business plans, which are necessary for people to confuse growth.Some Cloud computing and managed services as similar processes. To illustrate, we can say that, although both services are related to one another work together do not work the same way. A simple criterion for distinguishing between the two is that cloud computing is a technology or innovation that will be created to the independence and unity, promote higher scalability organizations, while the services for the management servers in the cloud to help companies plan, time to concentrate on business plans. Let us understand what managed services for the cloud to the cloud environment and the operation of powerful companies.
Important properties of cloud services managed - a brief explanation!
Cloud-migration is simply
Description of the migration to cloud and private cloud architectures compared
A crucial step in cloud computing is the transfer of data from a server or data center servers in the cloud. Now it is not necessary that the location server is the organization in confined areas. Can also be placed outside, which means at a remote location. This occurs in the public cloud architecture, where users are not aware that their data and sensitive information is stored. This was also raised in cases of disagreement about the safety of the public cloud data storage, the repeated questions from investigators world-class IT analysts, and has performed clouds. But that's where the experience of the cloud provider, chaired the event.
They not only follow the cycle of the cloud around the clock, but also integrate security required by the rules, to ensure a cloud-based environment. Thus, the data migration is taking into account all factors, so that no loss of users in terms of data loss or data theft is experienced. In fact, the private cloud environment more secure than the public cloud and the data were stored on the site within an organization. All this and more can be experienced with managed cloud services.
Full price-performance ratio
Managed service providers to help to drive the cloud environment to optimize the available resources. Each object is stored in the cloud must be properly managed and operated so that no loop in the administration of the cloud behind and organizations in an environment of highly scalable and benefit from green to leave. This appeal to the management of all applications developed using the platform for SaaS and PaaS make it in the cloud are carried out with effectiveness, efficiency and competence.
Available and reliable
The first thing that each organization manages its infrastructure in a cloud of desire is to get reliable services from these providers of cloud computing management. Availability is the second factor is considered. However, managed solutions should not worry so much control over the factors that exist, and manage the servers in the cloud. All the time available, that the managed cloud hosting providers to make the users to the best of your virtual environment.
Pay-per-use model
Managed cloud solutions operate on the basis of payment for what you do with the model. This feature allows users to take advantage of cloud services as their business needs. So that the user must take care not to support the spending huge sums to their daily operating time without any hassle. While in maintenance costs of public cloud architecture in later stages is more than the private cloud architecture is even better than traditional hosting where the money is not the account and final results are vague.
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The host storage resources is slower and more complex, and can severely disabling virtual machine (VM) performance during the critical business processes. In a VMware environment, provides storage I / O Control (SIOC) control a much-needed storage I / O and is used to ensure that the performance of the virtual critical not affected vehicle manufacturers of other machines, if the competing demands for the I / O 5 new vSphere Storage I / O control now supports NFS and Network Storage (NAS) over claims for common data storage is based. This allows companies to scramble for the hosting quality of service set priorities per virtual machine memory for improved access to storage resources a high priority. It also enables the implementation of service level agreements cover (SLA) with the NSF. Take some more look.Storage I / O control allows administrators to have control, the scramble for the amount of virtual machines hosting queues to access I / O in a common data store. This ensures that virtual machines with critical applications a higher priority to the queue I / O than other virtual machines that can access the same data store together. And the new storage API and awareness by storage at 5 vSphere eliminates the need to maintain tables detail the massive storage capacity for each LUN that are necessary to ensure good to SLA for virtual machines. While vSphere 4.1 supports SIOC-based VMFS datastore using iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN, vSphere supports SIOC 5 years to data warehouses has been extended on the basis of NFS.
Storage I / O control will now control virtual machines dynamically to multiple resources at the residence of the I / O on the basis of disk resources for virtual machines. It helps isolate the performance of latency sensitive applications, employing less than 8 KB (<) random I / O requests. This feature has been shown to increase the yield by almost 20%. At the same time it has been dispersed without the use of resources for virtual machines that need it, in proportion to the contributions of the virtual machine disk, use that as a fair sharing of storage resources without loss. And to provide reliable power for critical workloads, with limited power fluctuations in a small area during periods of congestion / O This increases performance by 11% compared with an unmanaged scenario without memory I / O control.
Storage I / O controller provides a mechanism to dynamically control access to resources for virtual machines Fibre Channel I / O (FC), iSCSI or NFS to manage on a cluster. It offers the same performance of NFS datastores that FC or iSCSI support, and data warehouses. Tests have shown that with the right balance between workload, storage I / O control, the performance of mission-critical applications to improve up to 10%, with improved latency for each operation, I / O, up to 33%.
Recent tests in laboratory performance of VMware Performance Engineering has examined various aspects of the SIOC, and found that the administration of the improved access from the tails of I / O uses a 10% improvement in response time caused the workload for testing. The ability to isolate from the SIOC application performance with lower demand has improved performance. The tests showed that the databases SIOC with I / O 8K improvement of working through the sharing of data storage with a workload that large applications using basic research contributed to I / O SIOC monitors the use of the queue virtual machine I / O in the host and dynamically distribute the queue slots not used on virtual machines that need it. Tests, these results confirmed a few more resources consistent and reliable cloud hosting.
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