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No Surprise: “The Hybrid Cloud Helps Midsize Companies…”
This is what we’ve been saying for years now – that the best path to the cloud is to:
- Own your core / foundation infrastructure and hardware, at least one server worth, and
- Architect it properly with DRY DevOps best-practices and repeatability, to scale into the cloud as needed to meet spot demand.
Hybrid clouds are a strategic combination of public and private cloud environments, offering businesses the flexibility and scalability they need to meet their unique requirements. One crucial component of hybrid clouds is the software that enables seamless integration and management across multiple cloud platforms like Cloud 9 Software. With hybrid cloud software, organizations can leverage the best features of public and private clouds while maintaining control over sensitive data and applications. This software facilitates the seamless movement of workloads between on-premises infrastructure and public cloud providers, ensuring optimized performance, enhanced security, and cost efficiency. By harnessing the power of hybrid cloud software, businesses can create a unified and cohesive IT infrastructure that empowers them to achieve their digital transformation goals and drive innovation in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Here’s the reference:
The Hybrid Cloud Helps Midsize Companies Compete This e-book is based on insights and recommendations by the Ventana Research, benchmark research report, “Business Technology Insights: Six Key Trends in Optimizing IT for Competitive Advantage.”
joe December 23rd, 2015
Posted In: How-To, servers, Uncategorized
Tags: Best-Practices, Cloud, DevOps, Hybrid Cloud
Debian with KDE on an eRacks/ZENBOOK13
This is a clip of the OOB (Out-Of-Box experience) of an eRacks Ultrabook with Debian on it.
This video show the sleek aluminum finish and Full HD display, as well as the Debian splash screen and desktop.
If we have time before it ships, we will do a quick teardown video of the internals, showing the upgradeable parts such as disks/modules/SSDs, mini PCI cards, and memory, etc.
This Zenbook model is so new, we had to install special WiFi drivers and we are prepping a newer kernel for the touchpad- at the moment, everything works, except two-finger scrolling.
Aaron April 17th, 2015
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Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet!
With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 15.04, eRacks is offering this new operating system on servers, desktops, and laptops. Just select it from the drop down menu when customizing your computer.
Aaron April 11th, 2015
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Video: Dual 2U eRacks/QUIET2 systems
Here’s a quick video of a new, ultra-quiet 2U Studio model – barely audible, even with 2 of them running!
We just built several of these for a repeat customer, here’s the latest two:
🙂
j
Aaron November 6th, 2014
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Ubuntu for Tablets Unveiled Today
Ubuntu for tablets was officially unveiled today. According to PCMag, “A Touch Developer Preview will be released on Feb. 21 via developer.ubuntu.com, which will work on the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets.”
I’m actually a huge fan of the interface on the Nexus 7 and I probably wouldn’t change it, but I would absolutely love someone to get a stripped down version of Ubuntu running on a Kindle Fire. I absolutely hate that my Kindle Fire won’t recognize a USB device and can’t access the Google Play Store without rooting it and potentially bricking the device.
Some of the added features of Ubuntu will be voice control, an invisible task-bar called magic edges, and a split screen mode to allow for better multitasking: Skype while you watch a movie at the same time.
Greg February 19th, 2013
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