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Article: Leverage the Cloud to Help Consolidate On-Prem Systems

InfoQ Articles

A cloud model can be used to architecturally validate the possibility of consolidating multiple application servers into a smaller number of physical resources that will ultimately remain on-prem. By Tony Perez.

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When DNS Fails in the Cloud: DNS Performance and Troubleshooting

Kentik

Cloud-based DNS for resolution within our cloud service provider (PaaS DNS). Reduction in DNS flow return to any of your DNS servers may indicate failure in routing paths. To facilitate the migration of our applications we split DNS into three tiers: Data center-based resolution from the cloud over VPN, to DC-hosted DNS resolvers.

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Cloud Battle: Azure v. AWS

Akins IT

Benefits of Azure include ease of use because it links well with Microsoft on-premise systems that are already in play in an organization like Windows Server, System Center, and Active Directory. Another of Azures strengths is in its PaaS capabilities.

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Citrix Versus Windows Virtual Desktop

Akins IT

Citrix requires multiple servers to be built for management and orchestration, Windows Servers for session hosts, and additional Windows RDS cals. Since Azure offers WVD through its Platform as a Service offerings (PaaS), there is generally much less consultancy and setup time needed.

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What is Windows Virtual Desktop? (Part 1)

Akins IT

Prior to WVD, this was only possible with the Windows Server operating system. Microsoft Azures new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, simplifies the management and connection broker functionality for WVD. User profiles are handled independently of the virtual machine that serves as the users desktop.

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How to Run Apache Kafka with Spring Boot on Pivotal Application Service (PAS)

Confluent

Check out any topics created by the sample app with bin/kafka-topics --list --command-config kafka.properties --bootstrap-server kafka.supergloo.com:9092. (As First, look to the manifest.yaml file for the env stanza setting of SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE: paas. How does your PAS app know which Kafka cluster to use and how to authorize?

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Why Traditional MPLS Networks are Ill-Suited for UCaaS

CATO Networks

But while UC brings the cost and complexity of hosting and maintaining server infrastructure in the enterprise datacenters, UCaaS avoids those problems, putting UC in the cloud. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or are obtained from software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers.

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