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Test Robot  

Continuously monitoring the performance of applications helps ensure the service quality in multilayered cloud services.

Versatile Connections  

A natural consequence of software-defined storage and software-defined data centers is the software-defined wide area network, or the Internet connections between locations and cloud services.

Choose Carefully  

We look at the variety of databases available in Amazon Web Services – from relational, to NoSQL, to data warehouses for petabyte data volumes.

Fortress in the Clouds  

Any OpenStack installation that hosts services and VMs for several customers poses a challenge for the security-conscious admin. Hardening the overall system can turn the porous walls into a fortress – but you'll need more than a little mortar.

Identity Transfer  

Learn how Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 can help sync identities in the local AD as well as Azure AD and Office 365.

Shippable Data  

If you spend very much of your time pushing containerized services from server to server, you might be asking yourself: Why not databases, as well? We describe the status quo for RDBMS containers.

Active Separation  

Virtualization solutions isolate their VM systems far more effectively than a container host isolates its guests. However, implementation weaknesses in the hypervisor and configuration errors can lead to residual risk, as we show, using KVM as an example.

Motor for the Cloud  

We look at VMware's tool for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructures.

Designer Store  

Standard hardware plus LizardFS equals a resilient, flexible, and configurable POSIX-compliant storage pool.

Plug and Play  

We look at some tools that can help take the pain out of managing plugins.
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