I put together a series of tips on using computing as a service vendors such as Terremark and Amazon Web Services for ITworld this week, including the following articles:

• Cloning a new server
• Using OS templates
• Whether or not you have to pay for a non-running virtual PC instance
• Making remote connections to your cloud environment
• Adding storage to your cloud VMs
• How do I know how much of my cloud infrastructure is redundant?
• Automatically reprovisioning your cloud environment
• How fast must an Internet pipe be to support the cloud?