It is not a secret that knowledge of simple rules and safety techniques can help save human life. Your data is a vital component of your business. It is estimated that about 60% of businesses that experience catastrophic data loss will close in the first six months after the event. But this can be avoided by knowing just one rule: a 3-2-1 backup strategy ensures the safety and continuity of your business. Do you want to know more?

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COVID-19 completely changed the world and affected all areas of the business. Cloud platforms also don’t wait on the sidelines and are making confident strides towards combating the 21st-century pandemic. Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing division of the online multibillion-dollar retail giant, joins the global efforts to fight COVID-19 by making contributions on several fronts. In which areas?

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If you are a developer or system administrator, Google Cloud Storage (GCS) is a must-use platform for working with arrays of data sets. Using this unified object storage platform, you can store, organize, and access the data with reliability and no sweat. Do you want to know how to organize the storage process?

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In times of struggle with COVID-19, home office mode becomes a new reality for many people. It is very important to have everything you need on hand and not worry about the work of your VMs. One way to keep peace of mind is to have an external network connection for your Hyper-V VMs. Hyper-V can’t use a wireless adapter to provide this configuration, you might say. But still, there are a few options to do this, regardless of the connection used by Hyper-V host.

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Is coding the only way to automate your workflows? Definitely, not. A cloud service like Azure Logic Apps helps you plan, automate, and coordinate workloads and processes without coding. This being said, you can integrate your applications, data or services between different enterprises. Get started to work with Azure Logic Apps right now! (more…)

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a relatively new player on the cloud platforms market which entered it after Microsoft and Amazon (though we can argue about exact dates). With all of these three players we can see destinct market entry scenarios/starting positions.

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Icecast, according to the developers, is a streaming media (audio/video) server which currently supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and, MP3 streams. It can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between. It is very versatile in that new formats can be added relatively easily and supports open standards for communication and interaction.

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The apostrophe is a CMS framework for Node.js that supports in-context editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets, and much more. This article is about setting up ApostropheCMS on your Ubuntu system and then creating a sample CMS project to get you started. We will be installing the application through the default Ubuntu command line application called the Terminal. The simplest way to open the Terminal is either through the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut or through the Application Launcher search(accessible through the Super/Windows key).

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In this article we will have a look at the process of setting up a connection to AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu Server over internet (read “outside of Amazon cloud”/ “from anywhere”). More specifically, we will be looking at required settings and on how to initialize connection to Ubuntu EC2 instance from Windows client machine.

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Today I’ll show you how to deploy a DSC server on Azure. This server will have the function of reference server, and will be the PULL server to store configurations.

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