The most common question that I get to hear from developers is – how do I get started with Cloud Computing? Many developers believe that targeting a Platform as a Service (PaaS) is all it takes to get onto the Cloud bandwagon. While PaaS abstracts the nuts and bolts of the Cloud infrastructure to ease the life of developers, many applications run on raw VMs deployed to run on Infrastructure as a Service. So, it pays to understand the behind the scenes architecture when developing Cloud ready applications. Though .NET and J2EE abstracted the underlying implementation, developers with the thorough platform knowledge fare better in their jobs. Similarly, knowing a little more about the inner workings of the deployment platform will help developers in the long term.
It is just not the understanding of the Cloud platform that will make them ready. Developers need to have a mastery over certain fundamentals concepts. Here are five concepts that the aspiring Cloud developers should focus on –
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VMware’s Buying Nicira for $1.26 Billion
VMware has cut a deal to acquire privately held Nicira Inc and its cloudy open source network virtualization widgetry for $1.05 billion in cash plus roughly $210 million in unvested equity awards. So that makes a tidy $1.26 altogether.
It’s VMware’s biggest acquisition ever and should close this half.
Paul Maritz, now VMware’s lame duck CEO and going out with a bang, said in a statement that “VMware has led the server virtualization revolution, and we have the opportunity to do the same in data center and cloud networking. The acquisition of Nicira adds to our portfolio of networking assets and positions VMware to be the industry leader in software-defined networking.”
Faster R in Hadoop: rmr 1.3 Now Available
The RHadoop project continues the Big Data integration of R and Hadoop, with a new update to its rmr package. Version 1.3 of rmr improves the performance of map-reduce jobs for Hadoop written in R. New features include: An optional vectorized API for efficient R programming when dealing with small records. Fast C implementations for serialization and deserialization from and to typedbytes. Other readers and writers work much better in vectorized mode, namely csv and text Additional steps to support structured data better (use more data frames and fewer lists in the API) More forgiving behavior for package loading and…
David Smith
Satisfy Storage Hogs with Cloud Storage: Video Interview
We recently spoke to SYS-CON TV at Cloud Expo New York regarding cloud storage and how it helps mitigate the effects of “storage hogs” in your organization, whether the hogs are due to data retention requirements, application data growth or the quest to more effectively manage big data.
Cloud Computing: essential to SMEs?
It has been reported this week that 65% of US small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) say that cloud computing is absolutely essential to their organisation and future growth plans. Meanwhile 59% have stated that their selection of cloud service providers is largely impacted by their privacy policies.
This was revealed via research that was carried out by Microsoft Corporation.
The study also uncovered the fact that SMEs have been attracted to the cloud due to the opportunity for improving efficiency that cloud computing naturally presents. Cloud computing will also drive down costs. However, the main concern is still regarding privacy and security.
It has been revealed that the cloud policies and practices that SMEs seem to be most concerned about are transparency about location of data, segregation of data between customers and commitments not to mine cloud data for advertising.
The chief privacy officer at Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, Brendon …
Big Data Analytics and BI Strategies: Five Words To Avoid
Over the last 12 months I’ve accumulated plenty of “conversations” where we’ve discussed big data analytics and BI strategies with our customers and potential users. These 5 points below represent some of the key take-away…
The Department of Defense Cloud Computing Strategy
The Department of Defense needs to accomplish its critical global missions despite a decreasing budget and rising cybersecurity threat. To that end, the Chief Information Officer of the DoD, Teri Takai, released its Cloud Computing Strategy, which outlines its goals to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing throughout the department. In the strategy, the Office of […]
This post by AlexOlesker was first published at CTOvision.com.
The Sweet Spot of Cloud Computing and Big Data
“The cloud is very useful for analyzing Big Data and for hosting production Big Data as well. We are the first vendor to tackle this area of database scalability,” Cory Isaacson, CEO of dbShards, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo New York, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Lyatiss to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Lyatiss, an innovative Cloud network software company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
At Lyatiss we are changing the way users leverage the power of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service by drastically improving their experience, generating outstanding performance and stimulating exceptional creativity. We are an innovative Cloud network software company with deep engineering roots and a revolutionary approach to Cloud computing and networking. Our powerful and unique software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, based on our CloudWeaver product line, are at the forefront of innovation, providing superior and intelligent infrastructure control and agility.
Cloud Computing: Clustrix Claims New Cloud Economics for Big Data Apps
Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data apps, has new high-performance widgetry that’s supposed to deliver new cloud economics while addressing the real-time needs of customers building applications at the intersection of Big Data, the cloud and agile development.
The start-up has released a high-performance SQL DataBase-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that extends the database’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. It comes with simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.