Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday: Getting clever with metering

November 26th, 2013 / Ian Finlay

The Abiquo user interface makes it easy for Abiquo users to meter and charge for; compute, storage and network resources of various types. Learn how to do more with metering and charging with Abiquo.

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Tip Tuesday: Don’t be scared of self-service!

November 19th, 2013 / Ian Finlay

A key characteristic of a cloud solution is self-service – allowing the cloud consumer to provision their computing capabilities without the intervention of an administrator. Many IT administrators will shudder at the thought of providing the user with a full self service experience. Abiquo helps here by providing self service to the cloud consumers, whilst allowing the cloud administrator, or infrastructure owner to remain in complete control. Abiquo’s controlled self service is delivered through several different features.

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Tip Tuesday: Take Control of your Cloud Resources

November 12th, 2013 / Ian Finlay

Many organisations are wary of the agility that comes with cloud services and rightly so! They feel that they will no longer have control over users who now have access to self service, outside the constraints of normal IT controls. Abiquo helps you deliver those cloud services, so that your users have the benefits of self service, whilst allowing you to remain in complete control.

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Tip Tuesday: Providing Tiered Storage to Cloud Users

November 5th, 2013 / Ian Finlay

 When it comes to storage one size most definitely does NOT fit all. There are a huge number of storage solutions on the market each offering their own benefits and price points. For those running applications the choice of storage is typically a balance between performance or features versus cost. Often the application itself will […]

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Step back to the cloud

September 26th, 2012 / Ian Finlay

 I’m Steve Rushen, Sr. Director, Services and Support at Abiquo. Over the next few weeks I want to use this blog to share some of the experience that I’ve gained during the last two years at Abiquo, helping our customers to create award winning cloud services. As an introduction I want to define what companies […]

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