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Scout - Extensible Server and Application Monitoring

Community
Ruby
Topics
Monitoring Tools,
Operations,
Ruby on Rails,
Cloud Computing

Scout is an extensible server and application monitoring service which focuses upon ease of installation and configuration. Scout offers default alerts to help administrators understand how the application is behaving under various loads as well as allowing developers to create plugins to extend Scout.

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Debian Installer 6.0 Alpha 1: Ext4 Support, Installs "Recommended" Packages

Community
Architecture
Topics
Installation,
Linux,
Operations

The Debian project plans to release a new stable version of its universal operating system, Debian 6.0 (codenamed "Squeeze"), this year. As part of this release, the Debian installer team recently announced the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 6.0. One of the most notable changes to APT is that Squeeze installs packages from the "recommends" section by default.

Windows Azure Now Generally Available, Moving From Free To Pay

Community
.NET,
Architecture
Topics
Operations,
Cloud Computing

As of February 1st, Microsoft's public cloud offering, Windows Azure, became part of the growing cloud market as it started charging for its services. Azure is one of the first Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings to move from free, "early-adopter" to a pay-as-you-go business model. InfoQ spoke with Matt Deacon of Microsoft UK to learn more about this change and what it means for Azure users.

Articles about Operations

Enhanced Detection of Malware

Community
Architecture
Topics
Operations,
Cloud Computing,
Security

This article, from Intel, discusses significant new threats to host agents, outlines a generic architecture for malware detection, based on enhanced cloud computing, describes how Intel platform technologies can be used to enhance computing solutions, and ends with a threat analysis of the approaches presented. Malware that masks its presence from traditional security agents is the article focus.

SQL Server Reporting Services and Working with Overlay Data

Community
.NET
Topics
Operations,
SQL Server

In this article, Grzegorz Gogolowicz and Trent Swanson tackle the problem of generating reports in SQL Server Reporting Services when the source is scanned images and other supplied formats yet a fixed layout report or pixel perfect report is the desired outcome.

Presentations about Operations

Automating Operations with Spring Batch and Spring Integration

Community
Java
Topics
Operations

After a quick introduction to Spring Batch and Integration, Dave Syer and Mark Fisher demo using them for real life situations where automation can save both operators and developers a lot of time by running automated safe-failing and auto-restartable batch jobs.

SpringSource and VMWare: Making Sense Of It All

Community
Architecture,
Java
Topics
Virtualization,
Operations,
Cloud Computing,
Acquisitions

Adrian Colyer and Karl Rumelhart discuss the VMWare acquisition of SpringSource, Cloud Foundry, deployment blueprints, tc Server, dm Server, SpringSource Tool Suite, public vs private vs personal cloud, virtualization in the data center, vSphere, Infrastructure as a Service, vCloud, intelligent provisioning, vMotion, VMWare DRS, VMWare FT, vCenter management suite and vSphere performance.

Interviews about Operations

Chris Richardson discusses Cloud Foundry and Cloud Computing

Community
Java
Topics
Operations,
Virtualization,
Cloud Computing

Chris Richardson discusses the evolving cloud computing landscape, cloud computing tools, differences between local machines and cloud-based virtual machines, Cloud Foundry offerings, deploying a Java application to Cloud Foundry, Cloud Foundry vs other cloud offerings, future Cloud Foundry developments, and the future of enterprise Java development.

Joseph Molnar discusses scanR

Community
.NET,
Architecture
Topics
Operations,
Mobile,
.NET Framework

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2008, Joseph Molnar discusses scanR, choosing .Net for scanR, the architecture of scanR, working with mobile carriers, scaling, challenges which were encountered, .Net components and libraries used, major problems encountered and their solutions, managing scanR, and what would be done differently if scanR was rewritten from scratch.