Both small startups and large organizations have the same choice to make: focus on what is important or spend time toiling with the ancillary details. No matter the size of your team, you still have to solve the same problems: code, testing, infrastructure, monitoring, availability and performance. But the time has never been better than now to let someone else solve those problems while you focus on what’s most important to your business, your customers.
More and more companies are embracing SaaS, PaaS and IaaS solutions for their toolchains; they are cloudifying their business. The quality and availability of these solutions has come to a point where you can rely on them within your production systems, allowing you to keep your internal resources focused on your business.
Todas las entradas hechas por Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
MaaS – The Solution to Design, Map, Integrate and Publish Open Data
Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at the most, to the requirement for attributes and sharealikes (Open Software Service Definition – OSSD). As a consequence, Open Data should create value and might have a positive impact in many different areas such as government (tax money expenditure), health (medical research, hospital acceptance by pathology), quality of life (air breathed in our city, pollution) or might influence public decisions like investments, public economy and expenditure. We are talking about services, so open data are services needed to connect the community with the public bodies. However, the required open data should be part of a design and then integrated, mapped, updated and published in a form, which is easy to use. MaaS is the Open Data driver and enables Open Data portability into the Cloud.
StreetCred: Big Data Finds Fugitives
Traffic citations are critical for funding police departments, courts, and municipalities. Unpaid citations or missed court appearances result in warrants and additional fees, but finding or arresting fugitives and collecting unpaid fines is difficult as well as time and manpower intensive. As a result, the process often stops there. In Texas alone, there is almost $1 billion in outstanding warrants, with $300 million in Houston and $100 million in Dallas.
StreetCred Software is a Big Data solution designed by two Texas police officers, one a technology industry veteran who later joined the force to cut down on that backlog by collecting and analyzing all available information to optimize and manage the entire warrant lifecycle. When tested over a year within a Texas police department, StreetCred helped warrant officers increase their successful contacts by more than threefold while decreasing costs per contact by nearly three quarters.
OpenNebula – the Open Source Management Platform for Enterprise Clouds
Compared with other open source cloud management platforms, OpenNebula comes with all the ingredients needed to build and manage Enterprise Clouds and support production workloads.
Single Install and Upgrade Process: OpenNebula comprises all key functionalities for enterprise cloud computing, storage and networking in a single install, and ensures its long term stability and performance through a single integrated patching and upgrade process.
Stable and Proven: OpenNebula is rigorously tested through an internal quality assurance process and by a large community with scalability, reliability and performance tested on many massive scalable production deployments.
Scalable Chat Room App in 15 Minutes
I’ve been using WaveMaker since I started working at the startup in 2008 and it has been a great IDE for quickly creating robust enterprise AJAX Web applications integrating SQL databases, and SOAP/REST Web Services. Along came Cloud Foundry and deploying those applications on a scalable platform became just as quick and easy as WaveMaker made it to build them. Add PubNub to the equation and you get the power of real time messaging in an instant. No complicated servers to configure and no expertise required to start using the service – just a few lines of code to start sending and receiving messages.
In this tutorial I will walk you through how to build and deploy a basic chat room application in under 15 minutes using PubNub, WaveMaker, and Cloud Foundry. You can deploy to whatever application server platform you like, however, in this tutorial, we are going full-cloud so there will be no installation required. WaveMaker Studio runs in Cloud Foundry, PubNub’s messaging service is cloud-hosted, and we’ll be deploying to Cloud Foundry, so no need to install an app server either.
Cloud Expo: ‘IT Industrial Revolution’ Made Possible by Cloud Computing
After 50 years of adolescence, the IT industry is entering its Industrial Age and this will have a huge impact on all sectors of the industry. Most organizations will see huge gains from this industrialization; most legacy vendors will suffer a lot.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Louis Naugès, Co-Founder & Chief Cloud Evangelist of Revevol, will explain who will be the winners and the losers of this industrialization of IT made possible by the generalization of SaaS solutions and public clouds.
The Impact of the Cloud on Digital Forensics – Part 1
Digital Forensics is not an elephant, it is a process and not just one process, but a group of tasks and processes in investigation. Examiners now perform targeted examinations using forensic tools and databases of known files, selecting specific files and data types for review while ignoring files of irrelevant type and content.Despite the application of sophisticated tools, the forensic process still relies on the examiner’s knowledge of the technical aspects of the specimen and understanding of the case and the law – Mark Pollitt.
Forensics in the Cloud.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Cloud-Driven Mobile Apps
Building cloud and API driven mobile apps introduces numerous complexities around syncing, caching, and securing data.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Alex Gaber, an API Evangelist for Layer 7 Technologies, will explore and review numerous tools and frameworks, including best practices around building HTML5 cross-platform hybrid native applications.
Alex Gaber is an API Evangelist for Layer 7 Technologies, a company that manages over 200 APIs spanning business and government. Starting as a web developer 15 years ago, he grew up in Silicon Valley and is an active member in the hackathon and developer community. He has a passion for building web and mobile applications that integrate numerous APIs and to create innovative and unique solutions.
Secure Data in Flight
According to Netcraft, who tracks these kinds of things, SSL usage has doubled from 2008 and 2011. That’s a good thing, as it indicates an upswing in adherence to security best practices that say «SSL Everywhere» just makes good sense.
The downside is overhead, which despite improvements in processing power and support for specific cryptographic processing in hardware still exists. How much overhead is more dependent on the size of data and the specific cryptographic algorithms chosen. SSL is one of those protocols that has different overhead and impacts on performance based on the size of the data. With data less than 32kb, overhead is primarily incurred during session negotiation. After 32kb, bulk encryption becomes the issue.
The problem is that a server is likely going to feel both, because it has to negotiate the session and the average response size for web applications today is well above the 32kb threshold, with most pages serving up 41kb in HTML alone – that’s not counting scripts, images, and other objects.
Gartner: IT to Spend $232B on Big Data over 5 Years
A new report from analyst firm Gartner forecasts that IT organizations will spend $232 billion (US) on hardware, software and services related to Big Data through 2016. Some key findings from the report: $5.5 billion in new software sales will be driven directly by demands for new big data functionality in 2012, and will grow at a rate of over 16% annually through 2016.
The sub-segments receiving the biggest Big Data investments are social network analysis and content analytics, with 45% of new spending each year. In the short term, much more will be spent on IT services than on software, by as much as a 20:1 ratio. Gartner forecasts that this ratio will drop as the market matures., Gartner projects a 20x ratio of IT Services to Software in the short term, dropping as this market matures and more expertise is available «Big Data» will soon be the «new normal».