Per a recent posting on programmable web, the number of Web API’s has crossed the one thousand mark, an important milestone in the web world. The example posts mentioned below support the increasing importance of having a Web API.
1. Sixty percent of eBay product listings come from their API
2. Twitter’s API processes 10 […]
A load test, when conducted before a web site goes live, helps in detecting and responding to scalability and performance problems much before the user is aware of such issues. Executing a load test from the cloud offers the following benefits:
1. Zero administration costs that would have otherwise incurred due to setting up an infrastructure […]
The ever so interesting Tim O’Reilly does an interesting analysis on the future of cloud computing (as understood in the context of IaaS), whether it would evolve into an outsize profit business as envisioned by Hugh Mcleod in his post titled “The cloud’s best kept secret”. Some interesting points from the post are mentioned below:
1. […]
In the cloud computing Google group, there was this interesting question asked: what cloud services can a small IT firm provide? This firm specializes in consulting, development and management. I replied to this question however I’m posting it on my blog as well.
An IT services firm can offer turnkey solutions involving business modeling, […]
IDC recently published the findings from a survey on IT cloud services (cloud computing). The survey was conducted on 244 IT executives/CIOs and their colleagues about their companies’ use of, and views about, IT Cloud Services. Summary of top three findings from this survey is mentioned below in two categories:
Benefits:
1) 63.9% find the number one […]
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. […]
The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of processes for enterprises seeking a service centric approach to managing their IT operations rather than, following a system based approach. The latest release of ITIL is version 3 and uses a slightly different terminology from ITIL v2.
ITILv2 is predominantly adopted in the enterprise while […]