I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan to whiteboard his Cloud Migration reference architecture. Instead of a temporary, short term cloud burst, now we discuss migrating applications to the cloud…as in a DevOps scenario.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Migration Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
I meet with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan to whiteboard his Cloud Migration reference architecture. Instead of a temporary, short term cloud burst, now we discuss migrating applications to the cloud…as in a DevOps scenario.
Akamai – Improving the User Experience with Innovation
Every day, technology is advancing and becoming more futuristic to meet the demands of the end users. Each company is seen vying with one another to improve their products and services and to be the first in the market to introduce their wares. Of course all are not successful, and only a few emerge as leaders; Akamai is seen as the foremost provider of ground-breaking cloud technology. The reason being is the company comes out with innovative technologies that meet with the users’ approval and needs on the button along with round the clock support for customers.
The foremost of the latest innovations we see is the improved security on their ground-breaking cloud platform with no compromise whatsoever on operation that the individual, firms and businesses are looking out for. The Akamai Intelligent Platform has become even more of a boon to users with its acquisition of FastTCP technology as proved by the increase in upgraded functioning which boosted to 105 % in China, 8% in Japan, 15% in North America and 22% in Europe. The Akamai customer can now enjoy faster downloads on anything on the internet from games to videos.
Akamai – Improving the User Experience with Innovation
Every day, technology is advancing and becoming more futuristic to meet the demands of the end users. Each company is seen vying with one another to improve their products and services and to be the first in the market to introduce their wares. Of course all are not successful, and only a few emerge as leaders; Akamai is seen as the foremost provider of ground-breaking cloud technology. The reason being is the company comes out with innovative technologies that meet with the users’ approval and needs on the button along with round the clock support for customers.
The foremost of the latest innovations we see is the improved security on their ground-breaking cloud platform with no compromise whatsoever on operation that the individual, firms and businesses are looking out for. The Akamai Intelligent Platform has become even more of a boon to users with its acquisition of FastTCP technology as proved by the increase in upgraded functioning which boosted to 105 % in China, 8% in Japan, 15% in North America and 22% in Europe. The Akamai customer can now enjoy faster downloads on anything on the internet from games to videos.
On-Premise or Cloud ERP – Which Is Right for Your Business?
If you want to implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, then you will undoubtedly have to answer a lot of questions before you can be sure that the system will run smoothly. But before anything, you should ask a simple question about deployment. Will you need to host your ERP system on-premise using your own servers or will you be using a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider? It will be a major decision, since you will need to choose who handles the hardware and software.
Big companies usually tend to want to deploy on-premises. This could be a because of paranoia, but big companies want total control over their data. But many smaller companies will opt to choose the SaaS method so they can save on upfront capital expenditures. Since they won’t have to buy their own hardware, the SaaS option will be cheaper (at least in the short-term).
But between the largest and smallest companies, there are businesses in the middle that have to make a tough choice. To make the best decision, they will need to weight three variables: total cost of ownership, customization options, and integration.
Accelerate the SDLC with Service Virtualization
Learn why Service Virtualization is a must-have for accelerating the SDLC and bringing higher quality functionality to the market faster—at a lower cost.
No matter what industry you’re in, software is increasingly becoming the interface to your business. Organizations that are able to increase the speed and quality of innovative software releases will capitalize on differentiable competitive advantages; those that cannot will languish behind competitors.
Not surprisingly, many enterprises have begun flirting with the idea of accelerating the SDLC to drive innovation through software. However, it’s critical to realize that there’s an optimal balance between speed and quality with software delivery-as with all engineered products. We’re in an era in which leading organizations must reassess the true “cost of quality” for software. Remember: the cost of quality isn’t the price of creating quality software-it’s the penalty or risk incurred by failing to deliver quality software.
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Bursting Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
I visit with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pearce to whiteboard his Cloud Bursting reference architecture. We cover a little F5 Synthesis along with the challenges organizations face when trying to burst to cloud implementations. Nathan covers all the cool F5 tools available to successfully burst to the cloud.
AWS re:Invent 2013 – Cloud Bursting Reference Architecture (feat. Pearce)
I visit with Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Nathan Pearce to whiteboard his Cloud Bursting reference architecture. We cover a little F5 Synthesis along with the challenges organizations face when trying to burst to cloud implementations. Nathan covers all the cool F5 tools available to successfully burst to the cloud.
Cloud Brokerage: Cloud-As-We’d-Like-It-To-Be | Part 2
In a previous blog we introduced the topic of cloud-as-it-is versus cloud as-we’d like-it-to-be. The cloud services broker (CSB) business model is gaining momentum as one way to turn the cloud into as-we’d-like-it-to-be. CSB is a term used for the activity of brokerage and also for the software that supports that brokerage activity. What is it all about?
The Gartner guys have defined it in this way: “CSB is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage. A CSB enabler provides technology to implement CSB, and a CSB provider offers combined technology, people and methodologies to implement and manage CSB-related projects.”
What Does the Cloud Mean for ERP?
The gap is widening between legacy ERP and cloud ERP as traditional on-premise tools are shifting toward delivery of applications over the Internet. The sudden growth spurt for ERP in the cloud is largely driven by the vast cost savings resulting from the increased productivity and efficiency that characterize the move to web-based business applications.
Industry insiders have recently begun to draw attention to the upsurge in new ERP developers as an indication that the competitive landscape has shifted, and that long established players will need to adapt in order to maintain their market share in the years ahead.