I admit it is scary. As a businessman you spend months and years building up your business. You nurture customer relationships like family relationships. They trust you in turn – with confidential information about yourself. You have their phone numbers, email addresses, address, bank account information – all stored in your database. If you are using a cloud service, this means “your database” sits up there in cloud with the servers of your service provider. What if someone stole that data? The lifeline of your business does not seem to be in your hand. Very scary. However,...
Image Migration Fundamentals Image migration is a task of moving Virtual Machine (VM) image from one virtualized environment to another. Each virtualized environment has images (virtual disks), which are running on hypervisors. Hypervisors emulate compute hardware, while VMs provide hypervisors with virtual disks. One of the common scenarios for image migration is when a team of developers wants to conduct load testing of a specific business solution in a different environment. The easiest way to do this is by taking a snapshot of the development platform, migrate it to a target environment, which...
This update includes more than past week’s happening in cloud. Bloomberg published that Windows Azure related sales topped a whopping $1Bn. While some pundits questioned if this is all for Azure only or not, it is an impressive number. This shows serious competition from Microsoft to AWS. Microsoft also beefed up its evangelist team to lure more developers towards Windows Azure. Enstratius – the Enterprise Cloud Management solution company got acquired by Dell. Through this acquisition, Dell strengthened its end-to-end solutions strategy bringing key capabilities to deliver cloud management...
‘What, OpEx is not going down? What are you running on our cloud?’ – your boss is on your toes now. Need answers? Here are some of the options you have. While all of them tell you what went wrong, some of them help you to fix it automatically. At least one of them supports more than one cloud provider - in case you are using multiple cloud platforms. If you would like more details like how to use their APIs, getting started, etc, please leave your comments. We will try to have more in-depth introduction. CloudWatch CloudWatch is AWS’s in built usage monitoring solution. It...
Cloud-o-sphere was abuzz today with IBM’s announcement of making its Cloud Services and software based on open standards. Specifically, it was learnt that its SmartCloud Orchestrator is built on OpenStack which is in beta now and will be available later this year. Analysts and pundits immediately brought up the similarity to IBM’s backing of Linux a decade ago. Deja Vu! This is definitely a good move towards open standards and avoiding vendor-lockins. This also strengthens OpenStack based standards (rather than AWS or other platforms). What it means to OpenStack? Big stamp of approval....
AWS has become synonymous to cloud so much that not many look for other options. With its extensive feature set and free tier, it is difficult to look past. This article aims to showcase other Public Cloud options available (restricting to only IaaS offerings to keep the comparisons fair). This also highlights public providers based in India known to us. Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list. If you are such a provider/ know of such a provider and would like to be highlighted, please leave a comment. Big players Rackspace Rackspace is the second largest public cloud after AWS....
Change. Continuous change is what we have witnessed, since computing began way back in 1960s, we have had many transformational waves on how the Software is built, deployed and accessed; From the COBOL & mainframes to Client-Server & PCs, to the web, to multi-tier and the whole 9 yards of how code was written, arranged, deployed and managed. And, then, cloud came with the mother-of-all-changes and changed everything across the board. Not just technology change, but also brought about innovative approaches to the business models and delivery models. Platform as a Service took this further...
Abstract: Vaultize, an enterprise laptop backup, file sharing and mobility solution, is unveiling Data Privacy Option (DPO) to help businesses comply with data privacy, data residency and data protection regulations. It is the first storage vendor to offer a feature like this. Mountain View – Jan 18, 2013 Data security has been the primary inhibitor preventing enterprises from adopting cloud solutions. At-source encryption together with de-duplication from Vaultize (www.vaultize.com) helps them eliminate concerns about security. Vaultize‟s patent-pending technology secures data by encrypting...
PaaS market is clamoring with noise. “Platform as a Service” is surrounded with blind men around the elephant, each with meaning of PaaS to one’s own. This is further compounded by the fact that the Application Platforms landscape is changing quickly as well. We keep hearing that “Developers” want control of the code, access to the nuts & bolts of the service they intend to consume. The same “Developers” seem to be adopting PaaS because of the tremendous speed & scale advantage. And the same “Developers” seem to be clamoring over the Security and architectural compliance...
During the last decade, the enterprise war was among the handful of players. Microsoft wanted to be the de facto choice of the IT by pushing .NET application platform, integrated tools through Visual Studio, a set of servers in the form of SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk and System Center. Same was the case with IBM who was trying to compete through the Rational, WebSphere, DB2, Tivoli and MQ Series platforms. Sun and Oracle complemented each other and ran an integrated GTM to win the enterprise customers. The goal of every player was the same – Displace competition and own almost every aspect...
