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Containers v/s Virtual Machines – which is best for your cloud?

Shantha Kumari

The cloud deployments today are based on virtual machines, but Containers offer another significant option for the users. The question of which Cloud deployment method to choose is entirely based on three primary factors:

  • Functional differences between VMs and containers,
  • Level of interdependence between private and public cloud components,
  • Users’ willingness to customize their own cloud platform.

Understanding the difference:

Virtual Machines and Containers represent two different ways to create virtual resources that run applications. The difference between containers and VMs is primarily in the location of the virtualization layer and the way that operating system resources are used.

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Understanding AWS Big Data Services available in the Cloud

Shantha Kumari

Amazon Web Services is the cloud platform which allows you to handle the Big Data. Whether it is structured or unstructured data, AWS enables you to collect, store, process, analyze and visualize Big Data on the cloud. Irrespective of the three V’s (Volume, Velocity and Variety) of the Big Data, you can build any application and support any type of workload.

There are many Amazon Web Services that are available for Cloud users to manage and use their Big Data. The most widely used services are Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DynamoDB.

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Leverage High Performance Cloud Computing for your Business

Shantha Kumari

High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly. While this term refers in general to the computing power required to perform high data computation, you can occasionally use it as a synonym for supercomputing.

In the cloud environment, High-performance cloud computing (HPC2) is a type of Cloud Computing solution that incorporates standards, procedures and elements from cloud computing. HPC2 defines the techniques for achieving computing operations that match the speed of supercomputing from a cloud computing architecture.

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