A dedicated SaaS and PaaS deployment model can support more sophisticated and multi-tiered business apps with highly customizable components. Enterprises are poised to run their key business apps in the cloud but today’s solutions are designed for simple and fixed stacks. Enterprise apps that are multi-tiered and multi-languages still require manual operations.
SaaS and PaaS have been gaining popularity in recent years. Why aren’t all enterprises ready to adopt them? The reason is that most enterprise apps don’t fit into standard SaaS and PaaS offerings due to the inflexibility of choosing components and lack of customization. As a result, thousands of enterprise apps are still running in their legacy environments, leading to inefficiency, lack of agility and higher cost.
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The Rebirth of SOA on the Wings of SaaS and Cloud Computing
Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an innovative new way to conduct e-business . While much published and promoted in the marketplace, SOA adoption has been the subject of significant controversy, not least of which is the publication of a landmark article by now Gartner Fellow Anne Thomas Manes in January 2009 in which SOA was declared “dead”. This publication examines the health of SOA as a relevant paradigm in the ICT industry three years after some market opinion leaders declared SOA dead.
Cloud Brings Foreign IT Spending to U.S.
U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years.
Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to providers of data center services located in this country, according to an article at ComputerWorld.com.
Case in point: Grupo Posadas, a hotel company in Mexico that relies on five data centers to support more than 17,000 guest rooms in over 100 hotels. Grupo Posadas IT personnel run three of those data centers. The other two are run by outsourcing partners.
By moving some operations to the cloud, the Posadas IT group will have more time to focus on developing mobile and social networking tools that could help the business grow, he added.
«Our IT strategy is aligned to our growth, and our growth means that we need to be flexible and agile,» he said. Cloud computing makes it possible to deploy new services in a matter of weeks. «That is the type of capability that we were lacking – that agility,» said Toro Bala.
Loggly to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Loggly, a San Francisco startup developing a cloud-based logging platform, 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.
With over 2,500 customers, Loggly is the world’s most popular online log management service. It’s simple, scalable and fast. Growing online businesses rely on Loggly to simplify log management and investigate brewing issues and trends.
Cloud – Vision to Reality
Understanding the impact of factors such as security/compliance, application architecture, integration, the pattern of demand and operational maturity is crucial when performing a cloud feasibility assessment. Additionally, many organizations perceive cost-reduction as one of the primary benefits of adopting a cloud hosting model. In practice however, this is not always an accurate assumption. There are nuances to the financial analysis: public cloud computing is not necessarily cheaper than traditional dedicated hosting. Furthermore, there are considerations around the impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), transformation/migration costs and the position of an organization with the IT lifecycle.
During his general session, Rackspace VP Andrew Schroepfer explores each of these areas in order to illustrate some of the factors an organization needs to consider when contemplating a migration to the cloud.
FFIEC’s Recognition of Cloud Security Advantages
With the endorsement by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), smaller financial institutions which a beholden to many compliance audits and security issues can now explore the possibility of outsourcing security features from the cloud. Now these organizations can get the same level of security afforded by the major banks.
Google BigQuery Gets Two New Features
As of this week, Google BigQuery is offering Big Data developers new ways to work with data by adding two new features. Introduced in limited preview in November 2011 and made publicly available May 1, 2012, BigQuery is Google’s chosen way to «bring Big Data analytics to all businesses via the cloud.»
Nutanix Raises $33 Million C Round
Nutanix, the start-up that came out of stealth mode last year claiming to be the first company to offer software-defined storage wrapped in off-the-shelf x86 servers, has raised $33 million in Series C funding.
It got the reportedly “massively oversubscribed” round from current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures as well as new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
It brings total financing to $71.2 million.
The company is going to use the money to expand sales, marketing and support, and double up on R&D.
The start-up doesn’t waste its time on modesty. It claims to be the fastest-growing infrastructure start-up in the last decade with record growth and revenue in the fiscal year ending in July. It says it’s shipped 150 systems, including 600 servers attached to more than 3.3PB of spindle and Fusion-io storage. It claims the fastest R&D to 50-node clusters, fastest to 100 paid units, fastest to 50 reseller partners and fastest to distribution in Europe and Japan, all in the two years since it got its A round.
Meeting Cloud Needs: Automating Out Complexity and Adding Efficiency
Using a range of performance, operations orchestration and Business Service Automation solutions from HP, services provider Savvis has improved its incident resolution and sped the delivery of new cloud services to its enterprise clients.
Savvis is recognized as a global IT leader in providing IT as a service (ITaaS) to many of today’s most recognizable enterprise customers around the world. We offer cloud services and hosting infrastructure services to those customers.
Being an IT department of IT departments, or a dynamic service provider, has a lot of unique challenges that you don’t face in every IT shop that you run into. In fact, we have thousands of customers that we have to support with their own IT departments. So our solutions have to be able to scale beyond what you would find in a typical IT organization.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Flow-Based Network Elasticity in the Cloud
The goal of cloud infrastructure provisioning is to ensure infrastructure elasticity and business agility to cloud users. The expected ROI comes as a result of lower infrastructure costs but also as time savings and better productivity. However, ensuring true application fluidity and high scalability often adds an additional burden to the operations teams as well as incremental costs. To avoid this situation, cloud solution providers need to take a critical but straightforward step by integrating the network in the picture.
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, co-founder of Lyatiss, will review the four key requirements that this implies.