Not too long ago, I wrote a post about IBM’s then very recent acquisition of a mobile application platform company called Worklight. Given the fact that is has been a while (at least in mobile market time) and IBM recently released (6/15) the new IBM Worklight 5.0 product, I thought it was a good time to revisit the topic.
First things first, the acquisition of Worklight by IBM and the subsequent release of IBM Worklight does not change the nature of the solution. It is still a mobile application platform, and it still provides the end-to-end capabilities that you probably (or at least should) expect from such a solution.
Todas las entradas hechas por Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal
Eucalyptus 3.1 Now Available
“Eucalyptus 3.1 is open for business,” writes Eucalyptus VP of Community Greg DeKoenigsberg in a blogpost. “No more artificial separation between Enterprise and Community. No more frenzied checkins to the ‘enterprise edition’ while the separate-but-equal ‘community version’ atrophies…(and) no more wondering about what’s on the roadmap.”
The new release features “FastStart,” designed for users “to deploy on-premise, AWS-compatiable IaaS clouds” in less than 20 minutes, according to the company. Source code is now available on GitHub, and there are enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vCenter 5.
With a nod toward what seems to be an emerging hybrid cloud (and multi-cloud) world, Eucalyptus also notes that the «Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers a comprehensive virtualization platform…that provides benefits for cloud deployments, both private and hybrid.”
Eucalyptus Systems “is enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies,” the company says. In DeKoenigsberg’s words, “Build together. Run together. Manage together. That’s been the mantra for this release…we are deeply committed to the open source model, because we believe that it creates the best software, and we’re going to prove it.”
Get Cloud Certified at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
The Cloud Essentials course is a two-day, interactive, classroom-based learning experience. The course provides a balanced curriculum and addresses the business and technical perspectives of cloud computing. It will also explain how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam to become a Cloud Essentials Professional (CEP). In addition, the course complements the Virtualization Essentials course, which they can do either before or after they’ve taken the Cloud Essentials course.
BoogarLists Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that BoogarLists has been named “Media Sponsor” of 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 a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capital and Mid-Market/LBO private equity firms, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to begin their search for investment capital. Whether starting a new company or striving to take an early stage company to the next level, CEOs and CFOs will invariably want to seek out new sources of capital or other financial services. BoogarLists provides an extensive directory of financial, operations and marketing services, as well as a comprehensive directory of conferences and associations, across the technology, media and communications industries.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
The new, «super-sized» four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while helping customers harvest real benefits from this transformational change that is happening in the IT ecosystem.
IT Must Do Whatever It Takes to Make Businesses Lean, Agile & Intelligent
Modern support services then need to be able to empower the workers and IT personnel alike to maintain peak control of systems, and to keep the applications, data and processes performing reliably at lowest cost.
Cloud Storage for Active Directory Users
As a continued discussion from previous blog – Migrate your file server to the cloud, this article discuss how to migrate active directory users to the cloud as well.
When you have an existing file server that you are migrating to cloud storage, in a hybrid access mode, you would like to keep the active directory users too. Hybrid mode means the local file server and cloud storage are in sync, allowing you to both accessing the local file server the old way, while accessing the same file server content from the cloud in the new way.
When you are accessing the file server the old way, the user identity is validated by active directory. When you are accessing the file server from the cloud, you would prefer the same active directory user allowed to access. This is the background context of the article.
How PaaS Can Change Manufacturing Software
Although cloud computing is just starting to make its way into the manufacturing industry, I think the cloud holds great potential for the future of manufacturing software. And I don’t think the potential of the cloud is limited to the application.
Cloud development platforms – or Platform as a Service (PaaS) – stand to change the way that manufacturing software is developed, distributed and consumed. Because PaaS significantly lowers the barriers to entry to develop manufacturing applications, it makes it significantly cheaper and easier for third-party developers to create applications for manufacturing-specific problems.
If you’re unfamiliar with development platforms, just think about an iPhone. The iPhone is the platform that third-party developers build apps for. To develop for the iPhone, you just need to build an app on the iPhone platform and anyone in the world can download it directly to their iPhone. PaaS takes that and moves it to an enterprise level.
Securing Your ‘Data at Rest’ in the Cloud
We’re all hungry for best practices and tips for securing data in the cloud and also how shared computer resources can and should work to ensure privacy and protection. The focus is on data security, especially data at rest.
Cloud computing is all about increased scalability and productivity. However, new cloud security threats such as “snapshotting” a virtual disk are emerging. These create new threats to private data, compared to when data was stored and secured between the four walls of a datacenter.
With cloud computing, multiple customers may share a single physical disk, although logically separated from each other. In theory, one can share the same physical disk with a competitor – without data crossing over. The same is true for physical servers. Equally, within a single cloud account, different projects may be sharing the same physical disks or physical servers. This virtualized approach is at the heart of cloud computing; it provides many of its benefits.
Cloud Expo New York: The Positive Show Reports Continue…
«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 Laydos – Director, Marketing & Sales Operations at Evolve IP – begins a blog post on the «Cloud IQ» blog in which he reports on Evolve IP’s experiences at the 10th International Cloud Expo, which was held in New York’s Javits Center June 11-14, 2012.