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SOA & Cloud Computing
 As observed in my earlier articles, the Java EE PaaS portfolio is gaining in strength each day, with support from major players such as IBM, Oracle, VMWare, Redhat , Google and Amazon.
However unlike the Microsoft > .NET Framework > Azure PaaS equation where there is just one version ...Aug. 8, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,531 |
 The costs of holistic security are very different from company to company when considering direct costs, soft costs, hidden requirements, scope of services, and migration issues.
What is it they say…you get what you pay for, right? In most cases, that is a spot on assessment but in te...Aug. 4, 2012 02:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,477 |
 Jim Barksdale is a pretty quotable guy, work for him for a few years like I did at Netscape and you leave with a small library of "Barksdalisms" that just stick with you. One of Jim's sayings was, "It ain't dogfood unless the dog comes off the porch to eat it...".
While Jim was makin...Aug. 4, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,194 |
 The software application developer is about to become the cloud software-as-a-service application developer. At least this is the truism that we must accept if we give full credence to the ‘trending’ topics coming out of IT vendors’ newswires just now.
Logically, as an industry, we ap...Aug. 3, 2012 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,749 |
 We have a fascinating show today, because we are going to learn about how a prominent European IT-enabled business services provider, Steria, is leveraging cloud services to manage complexity and deliver better services to customers.
Paul, is that what you are finding -- that the clou...Aug. 1, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,315 |
 In the first quarter of 2012, FEMA reported 12 natural disasters throughout the country, including tornadoes, flooding, mudslides and severe storms from Florida to Alaska. The threats to your data are limitless – natural disasters, fires, water damage, equipment theft and hardware fail...Aug. 1, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,572 |
 We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new plateau in cloud, i.e., the time fo...Jul. 28, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,445 |
 IT costs were always a worry, but only an occasional one. Cloud computing has changed that.
Here's how it used to be. The New System was proposed. Costs were estimated, more or less accurately, for computing resources, staff increases, maintenance contracts, consultants and outsourcin...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,585 |
 As every technology literate reader will know, there is little to learn about the cloud computing service-based model of IT delivery from 14th century Sardinian legal codes and laws.
At least, that’s what I thought until I spent a break on the island this weekend and read about the “C...Jul. 21, 2012 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,197 |
 Last week one news item that attracted media attention was the hacking of some nearly 450,000 passwords from Yahoo Service called ‘Yahoo Voice'. The communications on the incident state that, SQL Injection is the primary technique adopted by hackers to get the information out of databa...Jul. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,005 |
 While consumers and enterprises hail “the cloud” for its ability to provide flexible, low-cost and easily accessible computing power, traditional hardware and software providers tend to see the innovation somewhat differently. For these companies the cloud is a disruption of the highes...Jul. 21, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,881 |
 Business management and ERP have undergone huge technological, social and economic shifts. The explosion of cloud computing, mobility of business users, Big Data demands and microscopic focus on cost cutting are changing the pace and direction of every company’s IT strategy.
Five yea...Jul. 20, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,535 |
 As hype dies down, companies are seeing real success in their cloud deployments, and money is pouring in, according to a recent post on InfoWorld.com.
The cloud is in the process of crossing from the experimental phase to production systems that businesses can rely upon. Yet his has n...Jul. 20, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,676 |
 This post describes a prototype implementation of a simple PAAS built on the Hadoop YARN framework and the key findings from the experiment. While there are some advantages to using Hadoop YARN, there is at least one unsolved issue that would be difficult to overcome at this point.
H...Jul. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,091 |
 The huge growth in mobile technologies and new free collaboration services (e.g. Dropbox) is forcing organizations to find ways to coexist with these technologies, taking advantage of the efficiencies they bring, and ensuring that their data assets are adequately protected. Organizatio...Jul. 17, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,667 |
 Open source has proven to be a good option for building, managing, and delivering scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds. Typically, most open source cloud platforms support multiple virtualization technologies, giving enterprises a r...Jul. 16, 2012 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,656 |
 Over the last couple of years much has changed in the way enterprises map their enterprise IT architecture and realize their business capabilities. Till 2010 or so, enterprise architecture have been purely built on:
On Premise Packaged Applications (SAP, Oracle, Siebel)
On Premise Cu...Jul. 13, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,715 |
 As more and more companies rely on data as the foundation for accurate strategic decision making and use it to underpin the development and evolution of their core products and service offerings, the value of data to most companies is understandably on the rise. Yet, despite an awarene...Jul. 12, 2012 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,623 |
 Big Data appears to have made more headlines in the last 12 to 18 months than almost any other technology subject, other than cloud computing and the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon.
Note to self: don’t “phenomena” usually involve oceans parting and/or lightning flashes and frogs fal...Jul. 12, 2012 01:53 PM EDT Reads: 1,878 |
 Research from Host Analytics and Dimensional Research reveal IT is spending significantly for cloud services. And CIOs are practicing what they preach, as IT departments outpace all other business units in cloud adoption, according to an article on CIO.com
Cloud technology surveys – w...Jul. 12, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,179 |
 Cloud security is in a state of flux. Actually it’s not really, but discussion is rife across the industry regarding the general state of cloud data and application welfare. Questions flutter around whether particular services are secure, whether multi-tenant clouds can be locked down ...Jul. 11, 2012 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,223 |
 As an increasingly mobile and decentralized workforce gains access to a variety of communications options, organizations are ready to adopt unified communications. With its reduction in communications costs and significant improvements in overall employee mobility, flexibility, efficie...Jul. 11, 2012 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,864 |
 CTP2 offers customers an opportunity to evaluate both System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012, both are the enabling technologies for constructing private cloud with hybrid scenarios. There are important updates and enhancements to System Center 2012 components and this post is a qu...Jul. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,684 |
 First there was "what." Then there was "why." Now there is "how."
Cloud computing is being embraced by most enterprise IT shops – at least according to attendees and vendors at the 10th Cloud Expo in New York, writes Roger Strukhoff of Cloud Computing Journal. Many organizations now w...Jul. 10, 2012 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,916 |
 The million dollar question has been "Can an organization move all its applications to a public cloud?". Instead of moving all applications to the public cloud, many organizations are choosing a hybrid approach where on-premise resources can be leveraged and can interact with external ...Jul. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,736 |
 The discussion examines the full implications of IT virtualization, and how accretive benefits are being realized -- from bringing speed to business requests, to enhancing security, to strategic disaster recovery (DR), and to unprecedented agility in creating and exploiting application...Jul. 7, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,933 |
 Before embarking on using open source cloud technology for your web property, a basic understanding of cloud, as it’s used in the industry, is essential. While there might be exceptions, here are the definitions.
A software application delivered on the web instead of installing standa...Jul. 6, 2012 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,531 |
 According to “The State of Adoption of Cloud Applications” a recent survey from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) determined that overcoming the fear of security risks remains the key to adopting and benefiting from cloud applications. In addition it found that while companies globally a...Jul. 5, 2012 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,337 |
 The proliferation of cloud technologies can be seen through the increasing number of cloud ISVs that are leveraging cloud either by changing the underlying computing model or by completely redoing their product offerings. This number is already bordering on hundreds and quickly headed ...Jul. 5, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,906 |
 This year's Cloud Expo New York appeared to be double the size of last year. Not only were there more solution providers on the expo floor, there appeared to me quite a few additional sessions to attend. I felt even the session quality was better than last year, with more knowledge spr...Jul. 5, 2012 05:45 AM EDT Reads: 6,186 |
 Any software licensing scheme that counts the number of processors, servers, or virtual instances is fundamentally Cloud-unfriendly. In the pre-Cloud days, servers were expensive and difficult to install and configure, so we operated in the context of scarcity: add a server, pay a lot ...Jul. 4, 2012 01:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,436 |
 What do salesforce.com and Mashery have in common? They are multi-tenant software as a service leaders - both built with billions of APIs - for the Cloud, by the Cloud.
The implications this year: API Strategy in 2012 cuts across mobile, social, and cloud. Winning with API's tran...Jul. 4, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,618 |
 "It was my first time at a Cloud Expo show, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. But man, what a blast it turned out to be. Great exhibits, great audience, great floor traffic, great conversations with IT leaders and folks in the channel." With those words, Tom Gaydos - Director, Marketing...Jul. 3, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,335 |
 After an initial sluggish start, where Microsoft Windows Azure was the only player, we started to see increased support for Platform as a Service from major vendors starting with VMware vFabric and Red Hat OpenShift.
However, there was still a void in the PaaS space as the major playe...Jul. 3, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,195 |
 Talking about his new book, "That Used to Be Us," at a recent speech at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, best selling author Thomas Friedman said, "Average is over. Everyone must define and develop their extra, that unique value add that justifies, in this world of rising curv...Jun. 27, 2012 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,332 |
 The “cloud” terminology has been around for a while, but it was broadly popularized when Amazon Web Services started offering its S3 storage service and its EC2 compute service. With these services, you could easily store data or run software without owning or managing the physical inf...Jun. 26, 2012 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,571 |
 Much of the success of the Cloud delivery model is attributed to the implementation of similar concepts through mainframe computing several years back. The concepts of multi-tenancy, workload management, virtualization, and chargeback accounting all are basic tenants of the mainframe.
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 For the last two years, enterprise mobility has had a high place on the technology agenda of most companies. However, the mobile enterprise remains a highly complex and expensive endeavor that can only be afforded by a small group of organizations. Even more importantly, the enterprise...Jun. 25, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,632 |
 Studies suggest that businesses are adopting cloud much faster than IT, which is fair considering the fact that tightly coupled on-premise applications and outdated platforms from the previous decade made businesses realize only 30% of their budgets as business capabilities and the res...Jun. 22, 2012 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,794 |
 Cloud computing offers almost limitless possibilities for innovation and growth. It also provides fodder for endless debates about the pros and cons of hosted and on-premise software deployments.
In one corner, you have the advocates of hosting software in the public cloud who argue ...Jun. 20, 2012 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,904 |
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