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, [...]
I mentioned in the article on SaaS offering of ITIL, that the cloud computing or as SaaS matures, more infrastructure software components would be made available in the cloud. For example on demand Message Queuing (MQ) service.
In house MQ software has played an important role in the enterprise application integration world for over a decade. [...]
Amazon announced that it will offer the ability to deploy Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL Server on Amazon EC2. This has multiple implications:
1. Having the ability to run Microsoft on EC2 would accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing especially favoring Amazon EC2.
2. Running MS Windows Server would bring Windows based development [...]
In this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oracle announced that its products can be executed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2, the cloud environment). Oracle products available for EC2 are mentioned below:
1. Oracle Fusion Middleware: Comprises of Oracle Weblogic Server, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Coherence, Oracle JRockit ( arguably considered to be the fastest JVM [...]