During its yearly Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2011, Microsoft
introduced Windows Azure Cloud Appliance to its partners. The appliance can
be used by Microsoft partners to roll-out new cloud services in data centers.
The available server capacity will be maximally utilized for the usage of
business applications.
The new Microsoft service combines Windows Azure, Microsoft SQL Azure and
hardware fitted for Microsoft infrastructures. The service is primarily
available for developers, end-users, service providers and resellers, who run
applications in a private and/or semi-private cloud in their own data center.
Users can manage the Microsoft hosted services via a portal located in the
Microsoft System Center.
Microsoft partners like Dell will use the service to develop and provide
cloud services as part of their own service offerings.
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Jitscale takes care of new requests, timely renewal and installation
of SSL certificates for all customers. Jitscale also advises customers
on the type of certificate and the right vendor. None of our customers
currently use certificates signed by DigiNotar. Jitscale will remain
vigilant in following the news around this security incident.
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Jitscale, an international outsourcing partner for business critical IT
infrastructures, has announced that Bernhard van Oranje has joined its
Supervisory Board. Former Secretary of State and Minister Vermeend already
accepted a commissionership at Jitscale at the end of June. With the
accession of Bernhard van Oranje Jitscale has welcomed a second prominent
commissioner in a short period of time.
Jitscale is an internationally oriented IT company with offices in the
Netherlands and the United States. The company is specialized in designing,
organizing, managing and optimizing ... (more)
So what do I mean by this?
Well if we take a brief look at history we have seen good ideas and new
technology provided by the industry that has taken a number of years to
really take a hold in the market space. I think the most recent example of
this is the slow adoption of USB.
USB was first introduced in the mid to late 1990s with the 1.0 release
touting faster I/O over regular serial and able to chain multiple devices. At
that time we saw a small number of devices, mainly early webcams and mice
keyboard combos. But really it did not take off until the iterations
through ve... (more)
Amazon’s Web Services’ European cloud suffered an outage over the weekend
due to a lightning strike to the transformer at one of its power suppliers.
The outage affected its European Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Relational
Database Service (RDS) cloud services, among others.
According to the AWS status page, a lightning strike hit a transformer from a
utility provider to one of the availability zones (EU-WEST-1 region) in
Dublin. An availability zone is a set of hardware that supports cloud
services and is independent from other zones. Due to the problem, services
were ‘weake... (more)
Arjan de Jong is Marketing Manager of Jitscale and has been working in the Internet industry since 1997. Jitscale provides fully managed, secure, on demand, global, auto-scaling and virtualized IT infrastructures as-a-service.
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