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    5 cool tools for Cloud management 09 August, 2011 01:53:00

    Cloud management tools are as varied as cloud uses. For this test, we chose five tools that each attack Cloud management from a different perspective.
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    First look at Windows Azure 20 June, 2011 20:34:00

    There's "the cloud" and then there's Windows Azure.
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    Ubuntu breaks from the Linux pack 13 June, 2011 20:45:00

    Ubuntu 11.04 (nicknamed Natty Narwhal) marks a decided change in direction for the Linux-based operating system. The biggest change is that Canonical, the organizer of Ubuntu, is replacing the Gnome/KDE desktop environment with a new user interface called Unity.
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    Nimbula Director beta shows promise 20 December, 2010 17:13:00

    Nimbula's founders developed the Amazon EC2 public cloud system and are now working on Nimbula Director, which aims to partition internal cloud resources by authentication, along the lines of how EC2 works.
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    How we tested cloud management 20 December, 2010 17:13:00

    The machines used included two Dell 1950s (one has 16GB RAM, other has 8GB, both have eight cpu cores), one HP DL585 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), one HP DL580 G5 (32GB RAM, 16 cpu cores), Dell Optiplex 740 (three-core AMD, 4GB RAM).  
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    Enterprise cloud put to the test 06 April, 2010 05:44:00

    The potential benefits of public clouds are obvious to most IT execs, but so are the pitfalls -- outages, security concerns, compliance issues, and questions about performance, management, service-level agreements and billing. At this point, it's fair to say that most IT execs are wary of entrusting sensitive data or important applications to the public cloud.
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    Apple Snow Leopard Server: Faster, smoother 03 November, 2009 06:46:00

    On the surface, Apple's Snow Leopard Server feels like a $US499 maintenance release, but underneath, there's much more - improved performance, more polish and new apps focused on collaboration and content sharing.
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    Ubuntu Server 11 June, 2009 17:15:00

    Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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    Ubuntu Server: Lean, mean, cloud-making machine 02 June, 2009 08:12:00

    Ubuntu Server is a fast, free, no-frills Linux distribution that fills a niche between utilitarian Debian and the GUI-driven and, some would argue, over-featured Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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