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 There are a variety of applications that support numerous business lines across an enterprise. These applications exhibit a wide range of operational characteristics as they service the diverse business demands. That diversity is the key to business success, but it has consequences. As...Nov. 20, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 235 |
 IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing include a set of ready-to-use application lifecycle management tools for developing and testing in the IBM Cloud, and use infrastructure management capabilities, to help organizations build software applications in the cloud. ...Nov. 17, 2009 10:45 AM EST Reads: 945 |
 ECP is a carrier-class architecture & cloud hosting platform which supports the deployment of very large public cloud infrastructure for service providers. The platform has been designed to span multiple federated data centers in disparate geographies around the globe handling hundreds...Nov. 10, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 513 |
 The past month has seen an unprecedented concentration of Cloud-related articles, events, tweets, and - above all - product launches, partnership announcements and M&A moves. So is Cloud Computing, after three years, finally coming to the boil? Here, by way of allowing you to judge for...Nov. 10, 2009 01:00 AM EST Reads: 1,794 |
 The new widgetry features multi-cluster support and enhanced concurrency management to improve scaling so users can seamlessly overlay their Eucalyptus cloud on top of virtually any existing IT infrastructure, regardless of size or configuration. Eucalyptus is meant for implementing an...Nov. 9, 2009 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,153 |
 Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON'...Nov. 9, 2009 03:45 PM EST Reads: 3,742 Replies: 1 |
 Organizations who wish to use Cloud services in conjunction with their own SOA and those of their partners face major issues related to reliability and trustworthiness. One significant challenge is aggregating services from multiple domains including Public, Private and Community Cloud...Nov. 5, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 645 |
 Platform Computing is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high performance computing (HPC) with two new offerings. The company today announced the release of Platform ISF Adaptive Cluster, a product that dynamically changes the operating systems and personalities of compute node...Nov. 4, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 718 |
 Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...Oct. 28, 2009 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 390 |
 While there are many attempts to fix the badly broken IT architectures within our enterprises, most ‘solutions’ just put another technology layer on top of the existing technologies in hopes that the technology will somehow fix the issues. As you may have guessed, it just makes things ...Oct. 28, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 735 |
 While acknowledging that lots of work is currently being done to differentiate and integrate private and public cloud solutions, Microsoft Architect David Chou believes that Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is the area of Cloud Computing that will make its impact most noticeably in 2...Oct. 19, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,428 |
 Only one publication in the world has been tracking Cloud Computing 24x7 since December 6, 2006, when we first mentioned the concept in an article: Cloud Computing Journal. Since then worldwide interest in the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered...Oct. 18, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,298 |
 Platform Symphony 5 lowers the latency caused by large data sets, by intelligently placing workloads on systems that are physically close to the required data. In addition, version 5 makes the most of multi-core servers - whether applications are multi-threaded or not. As the only grid...Oct. 15, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 515 |
 Since 2007 Heroku has set the standard for web app development with a reliable, agile platform for rapid development, testing, and production deployment of web apps, along with innovations that deliver provisionless, automated access to and management of key application platform compon...Oct. 15, 2009 10:23 AM EDT Reads: 672 |
 Should Services be nouns or verbs? It's possible to design Services either way, as Entity Services, which predictably represent business entities, or as Task Services, that represent specific actions that implement some step in a process, in other words, verbs. Which approach is better...Oct. 14, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 590 |
 SYS-CON's SOA World Magazine announced today that the 2009 voting in its annual SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009, at the "SOA in the Cloud" track at the 4th Internationa...Oct. 14, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,110 |
 SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal announced today that the voting in its first annual Cloud Computing Readers' Choice Awards is now open. Voting will end October 23, 2009, and winners will be announced the week of November 2-4, 2009. To vote for your favorite Cloud products and service...Oct. 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,733 |
 The popularity of the concepts around cloud computing have caught many IT departments off-guard. While business and financial leaders have become enamored of the expected economic and agility payoffs from cloud models, IT planners often lack structured plans or even a rudimentary roadm...Oct. 9, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 605 |
 "I believe commercial solutions - whether its Google’s cloud or Amazon’s web services - may be perfect for many companies. But some corporations and government agencies are not going to be comfortable outsourcing their information and services to the Internet-based cloud," said Jill Tu...Oct. 9, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,205 Replies: 1 |
 Enterprise Cloud Computing is a key strategy for CIOs, stated Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy CIO at the CIA, in her keynote session at the 1st Annual GovIT Expo in Washington, D.C. As the pressure mounts to meet more stringent budgets, CIOs need to find the proper balance between transfor...Oct. 6, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,163 |
 HyperOffice announced HyperBase, "cloud-computing" software tools that give businesses the ability to easily collect, manage and analyze data - and share it with teams, customers, partners and suppliers. HyperBase users can quickly create online database applications for automating com...Sep. 30, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 470 |
 What are the linkages of SOA to Cloud, and what is best way to accelerate from SOA into Cloud? These questions will be answered by Eric Marks - founder, president, and CEO of AgilePath Corporation - in a breakout session to be given at SYS-CON's 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Ex...Sep. 30, 2009 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,613 |
 Before the New York version of its International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, which is about to be held again in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center, 2-4 November, 2009), SYS-CON.TV invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how Cloud Computing brings the ...Sep. 28, 2009 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,243 |
 SYS-CON Events announces that Jill Tummler Singer, Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will be delivering the opening keynote at the 1st Annual Government Conference & Expo (www.GovITExpo.com) on October 6th in Washington DC. Ms Singer was appoint...Sep. 28, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,701 |
 At its long-running "SOA World Conference & Expo" event, held twice a year ever since the year 2000, SYS-CON Events prides itself on inviting knowledgeable and articulate industry executives to participate in its Power Panels - simulcast at every show direct from the keynote hall. In t...Sep. 22, 2009 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,787 |
 Cloud storage has firmly established itself as an option for certain types of enterprise applications, most notably archive and backup. But what about an enterprise's primary data? What are the considerations for entrusting your primary data to the cloud? What features are required and...Sep. 20, 2009 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,565 |
 Yes, but it’s not the only driver. There can be substantial cost benefits when leveraging cloud computing but, as we pointed out, your mileage may vary. You have to consider the cost holistically with other factors, including strategic benefits that are typically harder to define but a...Sep. 2, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 882 |
 These standards are the first product in a family of standards being developed for architects by The Open Group’s SOA Work Group. Other standards currently in development for SOA include the SOA Ontology, SOA Reference Architecture, and Service Oriented Infrastructure.Aug. 31, 2009 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 948 |
 The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ...Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,002 |
 Cloud Computing is one of the many things enterprise CIOs, CTOs and other engineers will master in delivering capability. I believe in the power of new Cloud Computing technologies and concepts and think we should all continue our focus there.
I have said, and still say, the same thi...Aug. 17, 2009 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,752 |
 Over the past two years, governments around the world have caught the enterprise architecture and SOA fever. This is especially the case in the US Federal Government, where a number of regulations, EA frameworks, and major spending initiatives are all pointing towards continued and las...Aug. 17, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,221 |
 We were recently Tweeted an inquiry about what exactly cloud computing means. If you are listening in to tech chatter these days it's impossible to avoid the flurry of opinions about what the cloud is.
So...we figured we might as well add our two cents and spent a thought provoking...Aug. 17, 2009 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,198 |
 Our latest podcast discussion centers on using cloud computing technologies and models to improve the test and development stages of applications' creation and refinement. One area of cloud computing that has really taken off and generated a lot of interest is the development test and ...Aug. 13, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,189 |
 Look all around and you can easily see that there is no shortage of press regarding the promises of cloud computing. Cloud evangelists have touted cloud computing as the next big thing, a game changer – a disruptive technology that will spark innovation and revolutionize the way busine...Aug. 7, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,568 Replies: 2 |
 ZapThink frequently talks about how Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides significant benefits to enterprises by virtue of the ability to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of integration and enable business agility. It is apparent that companies in many industries are ...Aug. 5, 2009 01:30 PM EDT Reads: 800 |
 Recorded live at the 15th International SOA World in New York, NY, this interview between Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and industry analyst Anne Thomas Manes shows Manes on top form. They discuss among other things her controversial "SOA Is Dead" essay.Jul. 27, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 449 |
 My first read through a post on the Cloud Front Office led me to scoff disdainfully at the re-emergence of a concept central to a successful SOA implementation: the service catalog. Oh, we called it "registry" and then "registry/repository (reg/rep)" and finally "governance" but the co...Jul. 27, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,117 |
 Governance has proved important when adopting SOA solutions by preventing delays in software delivery from compliance interoperability, security risks, and poor service quality. The topic has been a hot one at this week's Open Group conference in Toronto.Jul. 21, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 927 |
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