by Pierre-Luc Bisaillon
I read a recent Gartner insight that predicts that the use of the word cloud will drop off in 2013, to be replaced by better descriptors of business value. Whether or not we use it less, we will continue to use it a lot.
These days when I define what I mean by cloud, I return to the NIST definition, and use the following table to illustrate the options:
Servic…
by François Gaudreault
Recently, Apache CloudStack (ACS) released version 4.2 of its well known cloud orchestrator. With more than 160 bug fixes and dozens of new features, this version is by far one of their best, at least on paper. Since we had to upgrade one of our internal environments, we thought it would be an interesting opportunity to share our experiences with the new features present…
by François Gaudreault
Before anyone starts to rant or panic, a few disclaimers:
We love both CloudStack and OpenStack. In fact, we wrote and shared a connector to allow OpenStack Swift to authenticate against CloudStack.
We are a Citrix CloudAdvisor and have deep expertise with the Citrix CloudPlatform and Cloud Portal Business Manager products, and by extension, CloudStack.
We want to…
by Marc Vaillancourt
In some organizations, CPBM’s integrated account-management functionality is insufficient to satisfy the demanding requirements of the corporate security department. It’s not for a lack of features, since CPBM offers a rather complete set of functionality out of the box: email verification, encrypted password (with salt), captcha support, account locking after mult…
by Marc-André Jutras
In this, my first article, I answer a question that I often get asked: How do I set up and prepare my development environment for CloudStack? True, there are many articles and wiki pages available on this subject, but here is my method.
Keep in mind that this article assumes a good knowledge of Linux. It is intended for developers who want to try out the latest development…
by François Gaudreault
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are growing in the market, providing many benefits including the prevention zero-day exploits.
What is a Web Application Firewall?
By definition, a web application firewall is a device that sits between the client and the web server and analyses layer 7 messages for violations in the defined security policy. In other words, WASFs look at…
Keynote speakers for CloudConnect Santa Clara have been announced. Joining Alistair Croll from CloudOps will be:
MICHAEL BARRETT, Chief Information Security Officer | PayPal, Inc
WILLIAM RUH, Vice President and Global Technology Director | General Electric
DAVE MCCRORY, Senior Vice President of DSP (Platform) Engineering | Warner Music Group
LEW TUCKER, Vice President and Chief Technology…
by Will Stevens
The CloudStack API is a very powerful tool for managing your infrastructure and is often not utilized to its full potential. I think this is mainly due to the initial learning curve to get working with the API. In this post I will present the basics you will need to start using the API as well as provide working examples to get you started.
The first potential stumbling block…
While open source technologies such as Linux and Apache are making inroads into larger companies, the thought of using open source technologies in a production environment will still cause most CIOs to lose sleep. Add to that the thought of using open source in the context of the Cloud and that poor CIO many never sleep another wink! The combination of open source with the Cloud is simply too…
This month, Cisco announced via a press release that it will recommend and integrate Citrix Systems’ NetScaler application delivery controller. The move follows an earlier announcement by Cisco that it was scaling down work on the company’s ACE load balancer. The partnership with Citrix, which will see Cisco actively recommend Citrix NetScaler to its customers is a move to close the gap, and…