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What is container orchestration?

Dynatrace

Problems include provisioning and deployment; load balancing; securing interactions between containers; configuration and allocation of resources such as networking and storage; and deprovisioning containers that are no longer needed. How does container orchestration work?

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - A Decomposition Storage Model

All Things Distributed

Not everybody agreed that the "N-ary Storage Model" (NSM) was the best approach for all workloads but it stayed dominant until hardware constraints, especially on caches, forced the community to revisit some of the alternatives. A Decomposition Storage Model , George P. Copeland and Setrag N.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

of administrative tasks such as OS and database software patching, storage management, and implementing reliable backup and disaster recovery solutions. We introduced Amazon RDS for Oracle last year , and based on the demand from our Windows customers, are introducing Amazon RDS for SQL Server today.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). Comments (). At werner.ly Syndication.

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Amazon Cloudfront is Streaming Media 2010 Editor's pick - All.

All Things Distributed

Its still not a threat to Akamai or Limelight, but the addition in December 2009 of Flash streaming to its offerings could truly disrupt the market. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. At werner.ly he posts material that doesnt belong on this blog or on twitter.

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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

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