We’ve just published two new articles in the CQ best practice series:
A list of the five articles published so far is at this URL. In the days to come, we’ll post more best practices, tips, and tricks that you can apply to your work.
Stay tuned!
The August monthly release of Adobe CQ Cloud Manager is now out! Here is a quick summary of the new features/enhancements in this version:
- You can (optionally) encrypt scheduled and on-demand backups of CQ clouds hosted on Amazon EC2
- Support for managed and unmanaged Rackspace accounts across 4 regions/data centers (DFW, DFW2, ORD, and UK)
- Support for SSH access to CQ clouds hosted on Rackspace
- Increased JVM memory configuration based on instance sizes for both Amazon EC2 and Rackspace
- Better categorization of Packages
- Several bug fixes and UI enhancements
For more information and list of known issues, refer to the documentation.
The July release of Adobe CQ Cloud Manager is now out! This version rolls out the following new features/enhancements:
- Full support for Rackspace Cloud Hosting (backup, scale, and delete CQ clouds)
- Scale Publish tiers with auto-replication
- Support for 7 Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions and 4 instance types
- You can now remove CQ clouds with backups
- Some UI enhancements
Refer to the documentation for more information.
When you pause a cloud, the cloud provider doesn’t charge for CPU cycles anymore. However, you are still charged for the allocated storage (for example, Amazon EBS volumes). Paused clouds are displayed in the Clouds dashboard with a yellow status.
However, when you stop a cloud, no memory, EBS storage, or instances remain allocated to it anymore. However, online backups for the stopped cloud are still retained and can be restored. The cloud provider continues to charge for the saved online backups. Stopped clouds are displayed in the Clouds dashboard with a red status.
For more FAQ related to Cloud Manager, refer to this documentation topic or consult this forum.
Adobe has announced the general availability of CQ Cloud Manager, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that enables reduced time and costs for provisioning, managing, and metering Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions supporting digital marketing initiatives. Cloud Manager takes advantage of cloud computing technology, such the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud, to start up CQ clusters quickly and consistently.
Using CQ Cloud Manager, Digital Marketing organizations can provision and deploy instances of their Web environment without having to procure hardware or pay large upfront costs. This ease of provisioning allows enterprises to rapidly engage customers, drive market shares, and focus on innovation.
The infographic below captures the overall CQ Cloud Manager framework:
To know more about Cloud Manager or to learn how to use it, refer to the documentation.
Over at the Experience Delivers blog, Pierre Tager – Adobe Group Product Manager for Enterprise Cloud – talks about Cloud Manager, an innovative cloud service enabling reduced time and costs for provisioning, managing, and metering Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions supporting digital marketing initiatives.
In an era where enterprises are facing ever-growing competition, digital marketers are demanding to accelerate their go-to-market strategy to build their brand, while creating demand and increasing reach for their products. As marketers, you’ve all been there: Great marketing campaign idea. Check. Social Community. Check. Implementation time…hmm. That’s where it falls flat. How many times have marketing initiatives been held up due to the time it takes to negotiate and buy software? Provision IT resources? Download, install and configure? Fellow marketers, wait no more! Adobe is bringing it all together with a new technology, that combines the best Web platform and modern cloud computing. Introducing Adobe CQ Cloud Manager, designed to help marketers accelerate time to market and provide competitive differentiation in today’s ever-changing digital landscape.
Read the complete blog post here.
Join the beta program here.