The success of SOA, which grew out of the popular Object Oriented development paradigm, was greatly hampered by the inability of architects to enforce its central premise of reuse. But it wasn’t just the lack of reusing services that caused it to fail to achieve the greatness predicted, it was the lack of adopting the idea of an authoritative source for business critical objects, i.e. data.
A customer, an order, a lead, a prospect, a service call. These «business objects» within SOA were intended to represented by a single, authoritative source as a means to ultimately provide a more holistic view of a customer that could be then be used by various business applications to ensure more quality service.
It didn’t turn out that way, mores the pity, and while organizations adopted the protocols and programmatic methods associated with SOA, they never really got down to the business of implementing authoritative sources for business critical «objects». As organizations increasingly turn to SaaS solutions, particularly for CRM and SFA solutions (Gartner’s Market Trends: SaaS’s Varied Levels of Cannibalization to On-Premises Applications published: 29 October 2012) the ability to enforce a single, authoritative source becomes even more unpossible. What’s perhaps even more disturbing is the potential inability to generate that holistic view of a customer that’s so important to managing customer relationships and business processes.
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Cloud Migration Is Not Enough
Cloud migration has become known as a critical solution for public cloud deployment. Yet cloud migration is not sufficient for hybrid cloud and enterprise cloud requirements. Enterprises will require cloud integration.
Mobile Development & Testing Integrated
Appcelerator, who’s got a mobile development platform called Titanium
3.0, and SOASTA, who does cloud and mobile testing and has a mobile test
automation solution called TouchTest, have integrated their widgetry to
make things easier for developers.
It’s said to be the first integrated test automation solution.
Governance Must Drive All Security Initiatives… Even Cloud
Risk is not unique to the cloud. The «how» (aka the technology) changes, but not the mission. True professionals know the argument is not about technology or how security is delivered, but rather one of governance and policy enforcement.
Do a Google search on “cloud security” and the first entry is “How secure is the cloud?” True professionals know the argument is not about technology or how security is delivered, but rather one of governance. You need to know exactly who HAS access to what resources and if these levels of access are appropriate. You need to know who IS accessing resources, and if they don’t have the proper credentials, you need to be notified immediately to take further preventive action. You need know that protocols for compliance are in place and routinely and successfully generate the reporting for periodic audits. You need to know your rights, liabilities (SLA) for any application or service acquired and that they conform to your risk management practices.
Supermicro to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Supermicro, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro®, a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation, is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro’s advanced server Building Block Solutions® offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions. This broad line of products includes servers, blades, GPU systems, workstations, motherboards, chassis, power supplies, storage technologies, networking solutions and SuperRack® cabinets/accessories. Architecture innovations include Twin Architecture, SuperServer®, SuperBlade®, MicroCloud, Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB), Double-Sided Storage™, Universal I/O (UIO) and WIO expansion technology all of which deliver unrivaled performance and value.
Open Source Release of the OpenNebula Apps Suite
Continuing its strong commitment to open-source and to the OpenNebula community, C12G Labs has just announced the open-source release of OpenNebulaApps, a suite of tools for users and administrators of OpenNebula clouds to simplify and optimize multi-tiered application management. The new software has been released under Apache license and will be incorporated into the main distribution of OpenNebula. After the announcement made two weeks ago about the public distribution of OpenNebula Maintenance Updates and Service Packs, the incorporation of this innovative functionality consolidates OpenNebula’s position as the most advanced, enterprise-ready open-source cloud management platform.
AppZero to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
AppZero is the fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to the cloud, without re-engineering, re-installation, or lock-in. With one-click simplicity, AppZero migrates Windows server applications from datacenters to private, public, and hybrid clouds. Patent-pending Zapp migration technology automates the extraction and movement of server-side applications to any cloud or machine in a fraction of the time required by other approaches.
Clouds Without Borders: How to Achieve True Application Interoperability
Anyone who has moved houses knows there is nothing worse than hauling boxes and boxes of stuff, only to unpack it all on the other end and discover that the beloved furniture and knick-knacks do not work in the new place. Portability is a tricky concept, and moving applications to the cloud is not much different than moving house. Just as every home is uniquely suited to certain décor pieces and not to others, every cloud requires certain specifications. The code and configurations that worked like a charm in one cloud environment suddenly look like a bull in a china shop when moved to a new cloud.
One of the most advertised benefits of moving applications to the cloud is the so-called portability that the cloud environment offers. The claim is that enterprises can easily switch cloud jurisdictions whenever they need to scale up or add features. Portability is indeed an important factor for businesses concerned about vendor lock-in, as moving applications into a new environment can involve a lot of heavy lifting.
Using OpenFlow to Extend Software Defined Networking
Using OpenFlow to extend software-defined networking (SDN) to the optical layer is a compelling prospect for enterprises seeking to achieve joint orchestration of information technology (IT) and network resources for cloud services, to virtualize the network and to more simply manage interconnections of distributed data centers that require synchronization.
Today’s fragmented, specialized management and control approaches are fraught with proprietary protocols and management systems, limited scalability and configuration complexities. With an OpenFlow-enabled transport network, an enterprise could instead engage in a kind of “one-stop shopping” for control of cloud computing, storage and networking resources – all via one, unified application programming interface (API). The benefits could include significantly simplified configuration, management and scaling of large-scale enterprise infrastructures through integration and automation.
Site24x7 to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Site24x7, a leading website and web application monitoring service from Zoho Corp, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Site24x7 is a cloud infrastructure monitoring service that helps monitor up-time and performance of websites, online applications, servers and other internet facing network services. The monitoring is done from 40+ locations across the world, thus giving you a global perspective of the end-user experience. Site24x7 supports monitoring HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, TCP, IMAP, SSL, Ping, FTP, SFTP, DNS and other internet facing network services.