Deployment

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 595 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 293 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Pragmatic Version Control Using Git' (by Travis Swicegood). Creating...

2 replies - 1010 views - 08/17/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Selecting Development Infrastructure

This week, I was tasked to create a development infrastructure with the following components:

13 replies - 4565 views - 08/06/09 by nfrankel in News

Building Applications in the Cloud

In this session we'll explore how you can develop compelling web applications to manage and manipulate hosted documents, spreadsheets and presentations....

0 replies - 1191 views - 07/27/09 by Masoud Kalali in Videos

Between Elasticity and Scalability

Followup on an interesting question being asked in the Cloud Computing Forum.Definition of Scalability

0 replies - 483 views - 07/22/09 by riho in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1179 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware

You can call it a “Cloud operating system”, an “adaptive infrastructure framework” or simply “IT management middleware” (my vote) as you prefer....

0 replies - 404 views - 05/22/09 by vambenepe in News

Good and Bad Public Cloud candidates

I recently have a good conversation with Ed and Dean of RightScale on what are the characteristics making an application a good public cloud citizen.Good...

0 replies - 973 views - 04/27/09 by riho in News

Reality check on Cloud portability

SD Times recently published an interesting article about “cloud interoperability”. It has some well-informed opinions. But, like all Cloud-related...

0 replies - 754 views - 04/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Federationing

I am glad to see that, as it inches towards standardization in the DMTF, the CMDBf specification is getting more visibility. Forrester’s Glenn O’Donnell...

0 replies - 361 views - 04/08/09 by vambenepe in News

Case Study – Scalable SOA for an Inmate Banking System

The vast majority of articles and case studies I have read over the years target the very large enterprise market.  While many of the ideas are sound, the...

0 replies - 5898 views - 02/09/09 by JavaJohnson in Articles

Load Balance Your Web Application Servers

I began my adventure with the need to ensure a lot of uptime for a particular web service that was running on a tomcat server. I investigated a lot of...

5 replies - 6672 views - 02/06/09 by jkilgrow in News

Cloud Computing Platform Comparison: (part 1)

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 1629 views - 12/23/08 by riho in Articles

Coverity Architecture Analyzer Improves 'Software DNA'

Coverity, Inc., a provider of static source code analysis tools, today unveiled Coverity Architecture Analyzer, providing development teams with the ability to...

0 replies - 2071 views - 11/17/08 by Nitin Bharti in Articles