Longjump, a PaaS offering to build applications (see our earlier coverage on the PaaS players here) announced an on premise version of its software last week. The company cites lack of cloud control reasons for enterprises to try out their software on premise. By cloud control, I mean gaining visibility and governance supporting compliance (typically [...]
Today Amazon introduced the Hadoop framework as a service called Elastic MapReduce. This adds a new layer or dimension to the definition of cloud computing: Framework as a Service (FaaS). Using Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) one can process large data sets on clusters of servers. The value proposition of EMR is to allow business, researchers, [...]
Per a survey conducted by EMA on monitoring and managing an application, it was found that 54% of application related problems are notified by end users to the support personnel. Obviously, managing a customer facing application in this fashion is not efficient. However, this is a well known and perennial problem because the tools available [...]