OwnCloud Adds API on Community Edition For Easier Integration

OwnCloud adds API on community edition for easier integration for the developers to create web applications and mobile applications in easier way. We have quite good number of articles and guides on OwnCloud which might help you to install OwnCloud on your server or PaaS, like Installing ownCloud on Rackspace Cloud Sites, Installing OwnCloud on OpenShift PaaS (that means free of cost) and a handy …

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Will Cloud Computing Kill the Market of Hardware Manufacturers?

Will Cloud Computing Kill the Market of Hardware Manufacturers ? Everything is in the cloud. Cloud computing is transforming IT practice at different levels; from the users to providers, large companies in the computer industry. This evolution toward cloud could change a lot of the terms of energy consumption and sales of hardware to which we are accustomed today, transforming the IT in a greener …

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IBM Cloud and Softlayer : A Conflicting Acquisition

IBM Cloud and Softlayer marriage believed believed to be the a conflicting business. SoftLayer can only bring benefits in terms of cost, offers, facilities. Just few weeks ago, we logically opined that IBM Cloud is a Complete Failure and the company IBM is only living on brand name. Apart from the news from Reuters named EMC, IBM eye web hosting company SoftLayer- sources, we had the information from other source that IBM Cloud is going to commit another big mistake. IBM Cloud and Softlayer, is an acquisition, which lead to thousand of conflicting opinions. The whole process, known to be handled by Morgan Stanley, primarily.…

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Key Issues for Data Portability

Key issues for data portability are Contractual arrangements, Access limits and speed restrictions, Availability of suitable interfaces and tools for exporting data, Scope and completeness of the exportable data and metadata, Structure and format of the exported data. Previously we published another article on Data Portability in the Cloud on the point Customer Loyalty vs. Trust. As from this small introduction, in this article we will discuss the key issues for data portability.…  

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Management Tools for Cloud Storage

Management Tools for Cloud Storage leverage the potential of their cloud storage resources. Cloud Storage tools help to keep track and to better control costs. Cloud storage solutions are popular, but the actual use of available capacity is low. SMEs for example, use only seven percent of their existing cloud storage. Management Tools for Cloud Storage can increase the practical
usage through an usable GUI. API based calls are great to hear but actually not all users can use the API based CLI tools. A good example of importance of these management tools for Cloud Storage can be Rackspace Cloud Files. We can recall, when there were many features available only through CLI, only few actually used them.…
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Cloud Server, PaaS, VPS, Dedicated Server : Choose the Right

Cloud Server, PaaS, VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation Server - lot of options for hosting from Free to few thousand dollars per month. Which one to pick ? It is very important to understand that, Cloud Server, PaaS, VPS, Dedicated Server, Colocation Server or even Private Cloud are of different service models, each is suitable for particular type of usages to maximize the return of
investment.…

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ERP Software as a Service : Drag Individualization

ERP Software as a Service making and more companies interested but it still need cautious. For small business, individuals such offers can be interesting. Software as a Service ( SaaS ) plays a good role in the ERP area in comparison to other applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) up to date. Almost all of the classic ERP functions such as financial accounting, materials management, project management or marketing and sales can be realized today as a cloud solution. We will discuss whether this ERP Software as a Service is cost effective and whether ERP Software as a Service is usable for the medium to bigger enterprises.…

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The Highly Competitive Cloud Market

The Highly Competitive Cloud Market Gave Us Free Platform as a Service and few Cloud Storage Services with enough to use by an average user. In all likelihood, we are still only at the beginning of change. According to current forecasts for spending by the companies in 2013 for cloud technologies, cloud services and related consulting and integration services will be around five-percent in terms of IT Total spending.…
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Cloud Based App RESTful API Testing with CocoaRestClient

Cloud Based App RESTful API Testing can be done with a free App named CocoaRestClient. It is designed for testing and debugging HTTP Restful services. Most of the Free and Open SourceApp Developers are using Free tier of PaaS like that from OpenShift, Heroku, AppFog etc. (search in our website for detailed tutorials, guides etc. on them) and needs to a free tool to test their own API usually modified from another Free and Open Source. Cloud Based App is just a terminology used here to indicate the practical situation. Most of the Mobile Applications, Desktop Applications or simple Browser application demands the usage of own API. It is therefore important to test the API of these Cloud Based App almost alone in some free way.…
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Installing OwnCloud on OpenShift PaaS

Installing OwnCloud on OpenShift PaaS can be performed from the command line tool cloning the git repository as custom php application. Here is how. Previously, we wrote about how to install OwnCloud on Rackspace Cloud Sites and a tutorial on how to use OwnCloud.…
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Cloud Storage : A Standard That Can Help You

Cloud Storage has grown its market with the advent of cloud computing and its spread has caused much confusion among computer users where a standard is a need. We are testing various Cloud Storage, we might know the limitations such as Security Issues, but there is absolutely no warranty that we will publish the TRUTH, by virtue the word – PROMOTION. In fact, in most KNOWN, BIGGER websites, the cloud storage related published news are promotion – you will notice the word PROMOTION at the end of that kind of articles. In the way they are written, it is actually not possible to identify by a person who is not in the writing business.…
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Startup and Cloud Computing : The Importance

Startup and Cloud Computing can have good relationship, but still we do not talk that much about Cloud Computing and startups or entrepreneurship. Unknowingly we use cloud computing – Skype, Dropbox and our internal management of cloud servers. Then we have the email and GitHub for development, we commit a change after testing on cloud based platform. Simple, is not it? We would love to make the bill for an young startup lesser.…
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Do I Need a Cloud Storage Service?

Do I Need a Cloud Storage Service ? A straightforward person might answer – will it increase your social status ? There are many things to about Cloud Storage. Actually the person who asked via comment is an innocent user. But this is probably a serious question to many novice users.…

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Contrast of Public Cloud and Private Cloud

Contrast of Public Cloud and Private Cloud lies in various aspects. Naming system made a simple division as private and public cloud, but things are not easy. These abnormal way of division of various types of Cloud has more commercial basis and is confusing to even quite advanced computer and internet user. Who ever has done this (known), who even has ‘certified it’ (known), do lifts the index finger by any general user – where is the similarity ? Only comparable can be compared. or when we are writing about the Contrast of Public Cloud and Private Cloud; definitely we have accept some ‘pushed’ way of idea as ideal; otherwise it is not possible to compare.…

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Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites

Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites needs few extra steps to do otherwise the method is same that is normally done for any Apache2 webserver. Rackspace Cloud Sites is Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) primarily targeted for hosting PHP-MySQL based web softwares including CMS and blogging softwares. Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites is actually not difficult, but for a new user it might take some time find it out. Here is how you can lock any folder or the root of domain hosted on Rackspace Cloud Sites with username and password.…

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What You Need to Know About Cloud

What You Need to Know About Cloud - How Much is Enough for your purpose ? One must know the essentials in order to ensure security on social websites, for example. Private cloud, personal cloud, public cloud. What is really behind the concepts around the cloud ? Not all users actually needs to go too deeper, just an overall idea actually can protect from various exploits – be it by the hackers or by the service providers as a part of marketing gimmick. What You Need to Know About Cloud is actually not huge for an average user.

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Cloud Computing and Legal Issues

Cloud Computing and Legal Issues. People has been used with Cloud Computing Security Issues, an article named Cloud Computing and Legal Issues is a bit newer to many of the readers and users. Cloud computing calls not only the IT professionals andusers, but also lawyers on the scene and is not very surprising. But it is interesting that legal arguments are no longer primarily the limitations on the new business model, but sometimes even used as sales-supportive, bringing solutions with high availability and reliability to the market.…

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Red Hat Virtualization : Beyond 2013

Red Hat Virtualization comes in to question for their work on Linux and open source solutions which fostered innovation, adoption of virtualization and cloud. There is a word in Shi’a Islam – Qayāmat. It denotes that Almighty will raise mankind for Judgment. Whether it will true in real life, one might raise doubt but definitely for Microsoft, Red Hat really cornered in various ways. From Server Operating System to Cloud Computing. There are quite serious efforts from Red Hat in Cloud Computing in recent past and apparent the users, at least for our website; appears to be happy with Red Hat’s Free PaaS solutions. Even a developer had not much connection with Red Hat before Red Hat OpenShift. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where is Cloud Computing, there is obviously Virualization solution behind.…

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Get Started With Command Line Tool for Red Hat OpenShift PaaS

Get Started with Command Line Tool for Red Hat OpenShift PaaS with minimum required knowledge in order to do more which Red Hat PaaS actually offers. Previously, we published the basic guide for Installing Command Line Tool for Red Hat OpenShift PaaS on OSX. This time, we will be presenting some important and must to know information and commands for working with Red Hat OpenShift.…

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Stepwise Strategies for Adapting Private Cloud

Stepwise Strategies for Adapting Private Cloud is needed for many companies as the first step. Private cloud is changing the way of determining IT strategies of a non-IT non-Cloud Computing companies. On technical level, they will ensure to deliver virtualization technologies optimally. This allows the IT services to run accurately and get a highly scalable system delivered. What services are exactly needed ? This is where, Stepwise Strategies for Adapting Private Cloud is needed to be implemented.

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