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Renaming of Windows Azure Cloud Services Causes Confusion Over its Branding About the Author Latha Annur Subramaniam is a visual thinker, a technology enthusiast and a person with multifarious interests. She was a core engineering member at Selectica, a valley based pioneer in online Guided Selling systems and later at Cognizant’s Digital Security Practice, working for Media and Banking giants. Having garnered the unique combination of Technology, Business and Creativity, she now runs a boutique Marketing Communications Consulting company. Disclaimer: The logos in this cartoon clip is meant...

Indian Angel Network, with over 200 highly influential members, comprising India’s most successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs, has invested US$1 million in priced bridge round in OrangeScape. OrangeScape is a leading, Chennai-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider inIndia. Founded by CEO Suresh Sambandam and CTO Mani Doraisamy,OrangeScape provides Visual Platform as a Service (PaaS), a modeling driven visual development and deployment environment for creating business applications. OrangeScape is the only cross-cloud provider in the world that supports all major public cloud platforms. With...

OrangeScape, a Global 10 Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, and Eucalyptus Systems, the world’s most widely deployed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud platform, today announced integration between OrangeScape’s Visual PaaS platform and Eucalyptus’ IaaS platform. The combined solution accelerates time to market for important business applications by addressing the application platform needs of IT and the hybrid and private cloud capabilities demanded by today’s enterprises. Suresh Sambandam, Founder & CEO at OrangeScape, said on this partnership – “With our Visual...

We started this tutorial by setting up the local git environment and configuring the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment in part 1 and then created the MySQL Database in Amazon RDS in part 2. In the final part of this tutorial, we will export the database to Amazon RDS and deploy WordPress to AWS Beanstalk. Step 4 – Exporting the database and deploying WordPress Now that we have the environment configured in AWS Beanstalk and the MySQL database created in Amazon RDS, it is time for us to move WordPress to the Cloud. First, we will export and import the MySQL Database. I am using the MySQL Workbench...

In part 1 of this tutorial, we configured git and the AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment to deploy WordPress. Part 2 will focus on configuring the MySQL database on Amazon RDS. Step 3 – Creating a MySQL Database in Amazon RDS Login to AWS Management Console and select Amazon RDS Select Launch DB Instance Select the MySQL database and click on select Choose the default version of MySQL DB Engine Version, db.m1.small for DB Instance Class and No for Multi-AZ Deployment. Choose 5GB as allocated storage and provide an identifier, username and password for the database instance. Choose wordpress...

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is the PaaS layer on top of various AWS building block services. It is primarily meant to abstract the nuts and bolts of AWS to provide an abstraction for developers to deploy applications on the AWS Cloud. Developers who are familiar with other PaaS offerings like Google App Engine, Heroku, Cloud Foundry or RedHat OpenShift will find Amazon Elastic Beanstalk familiar. Recently Amazon has added the support of PHP and now developers can perform a git push to easily deploy PHP web applications. This brings AWS Elastic Beanstalk at par with other PaaS offerings. This tutorial...

“Personal Cloud Will Replace the Personal Computer as the Center of Users’ Digital Lives by 2014″ – Gartner About the Author Latha Annur Subramaniam is a visual thinker, a technology enthusiast and a person with multifarious interests. She was a core engineering member at Selectica, a valley based pioneer in online Guided Selling systems and later at Cognizant’s Digital Security Practice, working for Media and Banking giants. Having garnered the unique combination of Technology, Business and Creativity, she now runs a boutique Marketing Communications Consulting company. Disclaimer: The...

The PaaS competition heats up with Amazon adding ASP.NET support to its AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment and MS SQL Server to the Amazon RDS offerings. This is a significant announcement from Amazon as it draws the battle lines with Microsoft which is aggressively positioning Windows Azure as the .NET Cloud offering to the developer community. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) was launched in 2009 with the initial support for MySQL. Amazon has been regularly investing in RDS by bringing the high availability features like Multi-AZ deployment and performance enhancements like Read-Replicas....

WorldDesk was conceived by founder Rao Cherukuri five years ago with one single purpose – deliver a user-centric Windows desktop experience anywhere, anytime and on any device. WorldDesk is a container that provides a home for your applications, files and personal settings. This is separated from any piece of hardware allowing you to access your own personal computer experience on any Windows machine. Unlike other virtualisation vendors, WorldDesk uses the end-client’s resources for all its processing power. This allows people to run processor-intensive applications and continue doing this...

First of its kind to offer a flexible platform for reducing costs, increased productivity and accelerated time to market Bangalore, INDIA; Den Haag, NETHERLANDS, May 7, 2012: MindTree Limited, a global IT and Product Engineering Services Company and KPN, the Dutch market leader in ICT services, today announced their partnership to jointly invest in a flexible cloud services aggregator platform for enterprise customers. The two service partners, KPN and MindTree with complementary core competencies extended their strategic partnership that started in 2010 with the purpose of delivering complementary...