Hifn’s Express DS 4100, a Network Interface Card (NIC) with optimized bandwidth and encrypted data transfer can possibly be the answer to security issues related to data in the cloud. Some key points of Express DS 4100 are:
1. Offers dual Gigabit Ethernet connections either copper or optical fibre
2. Data is compressed for encryption [...]
On demand message queuing providers enable custom integration of services through API or coding. In some situations using an on demand message queuing service adds more value, for example, in the situations of decoupling the components of your application. However, in the situations of integration between external services and given the current economic [...]
The latest addition to the list of on demand message queuing service providers is CloudMQ. See my earlier coverage on the list of on demand message queue providers here. The article also answers the question: why enterprises may choose on demand message queuing integration mechanisms.
CloudMQ seems to have been built leveraging AMQP with [...]
GoGrid announces its Cloudcenter Application Programming Interface (API) under a share-alike Creative Commons license. This allows developers, system integrators among others to copy, modify, distribute and republish their cloud computing API with attribution to GoGrid. This is a big move from GoGrid. However, this was anticipated because of the intense competition from Amazon [...]
James Urquhart of the wisdom of clouds, a popular blog, presents an interesting argument for private clouds. His argument for private clouds cites three reasons which are mentioned below:
“Disruptive online technologies have almost always had an enterprise analog. The Internet itself had the Intranet: the use of HTTP and TCP/IP protocols to deliver [...]
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 [...]