Recently there has been some momentum in the migration of an application/service’s compute environment from one cloud (private or public) to another (in this context refers to a public cloud provider). Implementing such an architectural strategy of using multiple cloud providers makes sense in the events of:
1. Planning and execution of service resumption due to [...]
Oracle announced today of acquiring Sun Microsystems for a total price of $7.4 billion. This transaction has long lasting and possibly game changing impact on several market segments in the IT industry. My analysis per market segment is listed below.
Open Source segment focusing on Java and MySql Database
By acquiring Sun, Oracle is probably the largest [...]
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun’s cash and debt.
“We expect this acquisition to be accretive [...]
Vordel 5 Cloud Edition enables an enterprise to connect with the cloud providers (such as Amazon, Salesforce and Google) easily and securely. For example, Vordel 5 ships with readymade policies and out of box connector to Amazon Web Services. This out of box connector enables a developer to connect to Amazon Web Services visually through [...]
Embarcadero Technologies, the maker of popular database modeling toolset and Integrated Development Environments such as JBuilder, J Optimizer and ERStudio among others, offers many of its products online called All-Access. A complete list of products offered in All-Access is listed below:
A. Design and Architecture
1. ER/Studio - A Data modeling tool for designing and understanding your [...]
Writing applications using Java on Google App Engine provides portability than when developed using Python. While Google App Engine (GAE) uses Google’s magic infrastructure, however, limits the portability if the application uses the Bigtable data store. In Java this tight coupling to the Bigtable data store can be alleviated by making your application use JDO [...]
Microsoft offers some data mining functionality of SQL Server 2008 with no local analysis services server in the cloud. The service is offered in two flavors: a cloud service and as a plug-in for Excel. The analysis tools available for the cloud are mentioned below.
1. Analyze Key Influencers Tool: The Analyze Key Influencers tool detects [...]