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Cloud Sidekick Unlocks AWS CloudFormation for Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Storm Deployment Automation enables use of AWS CloudFormation compatible templates within Eucalyptus On-Premise IaaS Platform Atlanta, GA – May 7, 2012 – Cloud Sidekick, creator of the open source Cato Cloud Orchestration Platform, today announced the Early Access Program release of Cato Enterprise Edition (EE) which extends the open source Community Edition (CE) by adding…
Cato Returns to Cloud Expo
Cloud Sidekick is excited to announce our continued participation in the largest cloud event in the world and on June 11th – 14th we’ll be at the Jarvis Center in NYC for the 10th International Cloud Expo event. Last year, we sponsored our first Cloud Expo in Santa Clara and based on the great response, we…
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Why use CloudFormation Compatible Declarative Provisioning in your Private Cloud?
At Cloud Sidekick, we’ve been automating complex application builds and tear downs in data centers since 2000. We developed the Cato technology to automate the process and in late 2011 got the brilliant idea to extend Cato with a CloudFormation compatible deployment automation service we call Storm. Storm effectively delivers a PaaS service for standing…
One-Step Chef via Cato
In a previous post, I walked through using AWS CloudFormation and a user data script to spin up a vanilla Ubuntu instance, install Chef, and direct Chef to create a WordPress server. Once you get the hang of it, CloudFormation templates, user data scripts and bootstrapping start to become ‘easy’, but there’s no denying this…