Category: Cloud
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Helping out in Cloudy Gothenburg
Cloudy Gothenburg – AWS meetup April 2017 Part of my job description is also helping out internationally the different sites we have around the Nordics and Europe. This time it meant packing the bags and heading towards Gothenburg with very early flight. There is a relatively new meetup called Cloudy Gothenburg which is sponsored by Cybercom’s…
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AWS User Group Finland – March meetup
Real life IoT in Amazon The march meetup for AWS User Group Finland was a first try to have a event in Tampere. Cybercom was sponsoring the event and it was held at our office at Pakkahuoneenaukio. We got around 25 participants to show up, so it was a positive signal. So possibly we will…
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re:Invent 2016 starting
I had the possibility this year to attend to AWS Re:invent, which is one of the largest IT conferences currently in the world. We had a team of three attending the conference to tune in to the latest announcements from AWS and to meet peers and AWS personnel in addition to going through a tight…
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Microsoft and friends – cloud ecosystem partnership
Yesterday I attended a Microsoft Azure workshop in Keilaniemi, Helsinki. This was a joint session arranged by Arrow ECS and Microsoft to promote Microsoft and their “Microsoft & Friends” titled cloud ecosystem and involved partners offering. Working intensively with AWS technologies currently, it seemed to me, that still the angle on this event was to…
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OpenStack Autumn 2016 meetup
OpenStack Finland User Group had it’s autumn meetup on November 2nd 2016. The topic for this event was OpenStack Operations and Operators. I had also promised to talk about our operations at Cybercom, and specifically in our Managed Operations Center running our 24/7 operations, even though I have been mostly concentrating lately on other tasks…
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How to farm your servers
… or the cloud-tale of pets, cattle and … insects? There is quite an old anecdote in IT how to classify your servers running your services. And it still seems to hold true in the era of cloud computing — at least it has for now. It states, that you should divide your farm to pets and cattle and…
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The Golden Cage of Public Cloud
… and should you even try to avoid it? Cross-cloud portability, that one great argument against using specific cloud provider to it’s full extent. This is also kind of often used by competing cloud providers as a leverage to get at least some business from a client coming their way. The Golden Cage – Term…
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Public Cloud – Someone else’s Data Center or something else?
There’s been some time this one internet meme has been going around. It says: “ There is no cloud – it’s just someone else’s computer “. You might agree with this statement, or you might not, but it’s a good catch phrase. And good catch phrases are easy to relate to. But if you think…