Cloud Computing Whitepapers
- Cloud Computing Survey Brief
- Eucalyptus recently posted an online questionnaire to gauge reader viewpoints and identify trends on cloud computing and its applications that we could share with the Eucalyptus community. Download this Cloud Computing Survey Brief, which summarizes the survey results and the aggregated views of the 385 respondents and provides a snapshot of informed opinions on issues affecting the cloud computing community.
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- 7 Steps to Success with an Automated Dev/Test Cloud
- As you adopt Agile development methodologies, your application release team is struggling to manage the dramatically increased frequency of your application build-test-deploy processes. Your IT team is also stressed -- they now need to provide lots of compute infrastructure (and deliver it quickly) to support the dev/test processes. What you need is automation -- an Agile Development Cloud - to successfully address the development and IT issues.
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- Open Source and the Cloud
- This whitepaper details the relationship between open source software and cloud computing as well as findings from a recent Lockheed Martin and Market Connections, Inc. study tracking the state of open source awareness, understanding and usage in government. It also provides federal case studies of open source cloud computing success stories.
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- The Private Cloud Revolution: Fully utilizing your existing compute, storage and networking assets
- Learn how with the Eucalyptus private cloud infrastructure (IaaS) you can achieve much higher levels of scalability, elasticity with your existing on-premise systems without requiring major expenditures or application logic modifications. Start to get the most out of your underutilized infrastructure investments.
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- The Business Benefits of On-premise Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Platform
- 7 IaaS Cloud Use Cases: How to Increase Organizational Effectiveness and Agility While Saving Money
This paper showcases seven different use case scenarios where Eucalyptus IaaS clouds increase organizational effectiveness and agility while saving money. The intended audience for this guide is anyone responsible with designing or managing IT infrastructure, as well as parties charged with controlling operating costs and capital expenses and boosting efficiency.
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- Turning Months into Minutes with Eucalyptus
- This whitepaper highlights one of the main advantages of using Eucalyptus as the core of a cloud based IT management strategy, that Eucalyptus can streamline many operational procedures so that activities previously requiring months can be completed in minutes instead.
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- Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms
- This whitepaper chronicles the real-life implementation of an open source private cloud within a high-performance data center. Intended for Cloud Service Providers, Hosters, and other IT professionals looking to build their own cloud infrastructures, this paper discusses driving forces (e.g., lowering IT operational costs and increasing resource scalability), cloud architecture, hardware specifications, and the actions performed to install, configure, and operate the cloud.
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- Cloud Computing and Open Source: IT Climatology is Born
- This whitepaper discusses the importance of open-source in providing an "on-premise" cloud architecture capable of delivering the efficiency gains of a self-provisioned virtualized infrastructure, while facilitating (through transparency and adaptability) the control, security, and quick remediation requirements so critical to enterprise IT.
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- Five Steps to Enterprise Cloud Computing
- This whitepaper discusses the use of cloud computing in the enterprise data center, the potential friction points associated with the adoption of cloud computing and steps to take to initiate the development of an enterprise "private cloud" as an IT optimizing technology.
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- Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - An Overview
- This whitepaper outlines the conceptual architecture of Eucalyptus and helps shed light on the business benefits of deploying an on-premise cloud.
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