Understanding IaaS means looking closely at these two approaches. Clearly the notion of cloudcenters embodied by AWS competitors such as ourselves, FlexiScale, ElasticHosts, AppNexus, and others is important. My colleague, 
The move to cloud-based applications has undeniably delivered tremendous benefits. However, the associated distribution creates various challenges from the quality perspective:
End-to-end tests need to pass through multiple dependent systems, which are commonly unavailable, evolving, or difficult-to-access for testing.
Accessing such system often involves transaction and bandwidth fees.
Teams need to test and tune the system under test against a realistic and broad range of performance and b...Jul. 12, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 626
Cloud computing is bringing massive computing power once reserved for government and research institutions to every organization in the world. Problems that involve intensive calculations or simulations can benefit from the computing capabilities that the cloud provides. Whether through scale out architectures like Grid / Cluster / Hadoop or completely new approaches like GPU there are a variety of emerging high performance computing options coming to the cloud.
In his session at the 11th Inter...
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will discuss the issues of managing a large number of MySQL instances supporting one billion+ requests statements per day (and 50+ billion SQL statements). Topics include:
Monitoring and instrumentation are essential
How to automate installations, upgrades and deployments
MySQL replication issues with 300+ slaves per master
Traffic minimization techniques
Creating HA with regions and zon...
Building e-commerce solutions for retail and preparing for transactions spikes on big shopping days was never easy. Preparing for the frequent and sporadic transaction spikes – launching a new game, e-book, or an online video release – in the digital world is even more difficult.
There are great benefits to an “Own the Core” strategy to maintain control and efficiencies since commerce systems are so central and connect with so many internal systems.
In his session at the 11th International C...
SYS-CON Events announced today that ZapThink 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.
ZapThink, A Dovèl Technologies Company, is an advisory and training firm and master of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture, and architectural approaches to Cloud Computing.
For more information, visit http://www.zapthink.com.
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APIs are no longer a technical nice-to-have. Now APIs are a necessary business tool for startups to scale, much as Twitter and Facebook used theirs to reach more users.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adam DuVander is Executive Editor of ProgrammableWeb, will show that this is doubly true in the cloud. APIs are the wiring that connects the cloud to apps on tablets, smartphones or TVs. APIs can also speed up business development, even between startups and larger companies. W...
SYS-CON Events announced today that UShareSoft, provider of a cloud software factory and app store platform, will exhibit at 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.
UShareSoft helps cloud providers, enterprises and ISVs simplify software delivery to the cloud. UShareSoft's UForge is a cloud software factory and enterprise app store platform that enables organizations to automatically build and...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Coalfire, a leading independent information technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) firm, will exhibit at 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.
Coalfire is a leading, independent information technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) firm that provides IT audit, risk assessment and compliance management solutions. Founded in 2001, Coal...
Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Da...
“Big Data eliminates the data silos that formerly existed, improving the depth and quality of analysis that can take place,” observed Scott Kinka, Chief Technology Officer at Evolve IP, in this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Without these barriers, Kinka continued, “we gain access to information that was never before available. We can see where there are underserved markets, opportunities, problems that need to be addressed.”
Agree or disagree? – "While the IT sa...
Say What?!? Instead of counting sheep, I can count how many emails I need to answer in the morning? Sure can…at least according to a recent Good Technology survey that indicates that we are working more – an average of 7 hours more per week – but it’s on our own schedule. More than 80% of working...
blue devopsIt’s easy to get caught up in the view that devops is all about automation. That’s because right now, most of the value of devops and repeatable processes is focused on deployment of applications within virtual or cloud computing environments and dealing with that volatility requires auto...
There are many cloud load testing solutions. However, very few enable you to capitalize on the opportunities of load testing in the cloud. Load testing with the cloud offers clear advantages over traditional load testing in certain circumstances, but the tools you use are even more important to the ...
Cloud security is top priority for enterprises migrating to the cloud. Security officers and business decision makers are well aware of the cloud risks and we’re seeing an ever growing demand for cloud data security solutions during the past few months. But at the same time, many cloud security prod...
Your day is going great. Traffic was light, coffee is good this morning and the application release that you’ve been working on forever is being released today. One more acceptance test run and it’s a go! Life is good….. until the call from server support. During final testing, the application sta...
When I sat down to write this post, I did some prep reading to see what the bloggers I follow were saying on the topic. But by the third post, I was reminded that we (the tech nerds) are not generally helpful. Tech nerds talk and write in our own language. We write to look [...]
Everyday in our life we rely on services provided by other people. Making a phone call, getting a car fixed, or ordering a pizza – and yet we want those things to happen as quickly as possible, because time often means money. If you take your car to a Mercedes or BMW dealer, you will understand this...
Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale! While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their ServerTemplates to both th...
As the technology evolves, so do the roles of the IT Department. There is a sea change whereby an effective organization doesn't need those to plug in cables and write endless code as much as to recognize and broker IT needs for the betterment of the enterprise.
There are a lot of experts and proce...
I started my career in late 90s selling Microsoft Application Platform that included the servers and the developer tools. One of the most common customer objections that I used to handle was “vendor lock-in”. Every time I pitched MS SQL Server or Visual Basic, the immediate concern from the customer...
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