• McDermott Bets on HANA-Powered Cloud to Make SAP Simpler

  In his Sapphire Now keynote SAP CEO said he wanted to make SAP simpler for customers and HANA-based cloud services were just the ticket. Read More

• Rapidly Deploy SAP HANA on AWS With New Deployment Guide and Templates

  I have written about the SAP HANA database several times in the past year or two. Earlier this year we announced that it was certified for production deployment on AWS and that you can bring your existing SAP HANA licenses into the AWS cloud. Today we are simplifying and automating the…

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• Introducing the Solr Scale Toolkit

  SolrCloud is a set of features in Apache Solr that enable elastic scaling of distributed search indexes using sharding and replication. One of the hurdles to adopting SolrCloud has been the lack of tools for deploying and managing a SolrCloud cluster. In this post, I introduce the Solr Scale…

• Configure remote syslog for XenServer via the command line

  Citrix has some helpful documentation online about configuring remote syslog support for XenServer using the XenCenter GUI. However, if you need to do this via configuration management or scripts, using a GUI isn't an option. Getting it done via the command line is relatively easy: HOSTUUID=`xe…

• Big Data Infrastructure Provider GoGrid Joins Equinix's Cloud Bazaar

  Cloud Exchange gives GoGrid access to Equinix's massive customer base, while Equinix expands the list of cloud services available in its facilities. Read More

• Telefonica, Red Hat and Intel Partner on Open Source NFV for Telcos

  The solution will combine Intel Xeon chips, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a KVM hypervisor, Red Hat's OpenStack distro and OpenFlow network switches. Read More

• Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 AMIs Now Available

  If you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you probably know that I sometimes talk about the number of options and choices that you have at your fingertips when you use AWS . You can choose from a broad array of cloud services , run your code on a wide variety of Linux…

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• Webinar: What's New in Solr

  Solr's feature set is growing at a brisk pace, while its performance and stability improve steadily with each release. The most recent Solr releases, 4.7 and 4.8, bring a substantial set of new features, along with many bugfixes and optimizations. This webinar will briefly cover earlier Solr 4.X…

• A decade of college degrees

  North by Northwestern looked closer at degrees awarded by their university over the past decade. Simply enter a degree to …

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