Cast Iron Systems provides integration services between enterprises and various on demand services. The integration process offered by Cast Iron uses pre configured templates for integrating with on demand services resulting in benefits such as lower costs of integration, faster time to market and simple management among others.
Cast Iron provides straight out of box support [...]
Google App Engine now supports Java. This posting provides a high level overview of Google App Engine for Java.
1. What is Google App Engine?
Google App Engine is offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) where one can develop applications and run it in Google’s infrastructure. The value proposition is the easy implementation, no servers [...]
HP Cloud Assure is offered as a turnkey solution providing three services:
· Cloud Security provides end to end solution for performing security risk assessments to detect and correct security issues.
· Cloud Performance offers application testing service and also lets business the experience perceived by the users. (via synthetic monitoring)
· Cloud Availability (CA) provides visibility into [...]
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, [...]
Open cloud manifesto is a set of guiding principles to increase the cloud adoption through open collaboration and appropriate use of standards among cloud providers. Through open collaboration the cloud providers seek to address the challenges of cloud adoption such as interoperability, security, portability, governance and monitoring/metering. The complete manifesto is available here. [...]
IBM announced its partnership with Amazon Web Services this week. Six IBM products (see the list below) will be available in the Amazon cloud in the near future.
IBM DB2
Informix Dynamic Server
WebSphere Portal
Lotus Web Content Management
WebSphere sMash
Novell’s SUSE Linux operating system
The pricing for usage is billed hourly and paid to Amazon; however, the billing [...]