The results of the 2011 State of Cloud Computing survey were released today by BitNami, Cloud.com and Zenoss. The 500 users were surveyed during the last few months. The purpose of the survey was to discern trends in cloud computing usage and preferences for deploying virtual infrastructure. Quick survey results: Only 20% respondents have no plans to…
APIs are critical for nearly every Internet business by now. The website ProgrammableWeb is closely tracking its conquest of the Internet – with 3322 APIs listed – and counting. Articles, blogs and Twitter are full of praising APIs. But, when talking about the cloud, then what is special about APIs and how are they useful…
Action In The Cloud The market for cloud computing infrastructure and services is growing rapidly and a wide variety of players—some old, some new—are rushing in to grab a share of the opportunity. To thrive in the cloud market, they must establish and solidify their positions as value-adding players. Otherwise, they risk being pushed aside…
In part 1 of this article we initiated a comparison of the services provided by Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. We talked about a bit of the history of the two platforms and found certain pros and cons of each of them. Further in this part 2 of the series, we’d focus on certain tangible…
Both cloud and mobile computing create a major impact in businesses these days. Each of them appears as a major source of revenue for market vendors who wish to capitalize on products that are popular among users. But, the numbers game states that mobile computing gets all the money and only 1 to 2 percent…
APM: Assuring Service Delivery and an Optimum User Experience Your business depends on its IT ecosystem, and you are responsible for making sure IT delivery is flawless. Of course, you have to do this in a constantly changing environment where you are adopting new technologies to deliver more flexible and powerful applications. While new applications…
The new era of the cloud—together with the expected explosion in connected devices and the dynamic applications optimized for them—information can be continuously fed to cloud-enabled “big data” and analytic engines, opening up the promise that all of marketing could migrate to a true real-time Internet marketing model. In an ever-increasing extent, every company must…
Electricity providers will soon be up to many challenges as consumers learn how to use “smart meters” and how to upgrade their utility set-up. They need to be prepared for the influx of information more than what they are prepared to handle. Managers at utility companies need to get on their feet and figure out…
As cloud adoption grows, the traditional technology ecosystem is facing disruption—but few players in the ecosystem are fully prepared. The disruption will increase opportunities for many players, including web and cloud masters like Amazon.com and Google, as well as telecom operators and other service providers. As companies turn increasingly to the cloud for their IT…
We are living in the age of “Big Data” where billions of transactions, events or activities are generated through use of smartphones, web browsing, smartmeter sensors and more. Hadoop, MapReduce and a new generation of NoSQL technologies are helping us manage, transform, analyze and deal with the data overload. Together they process extreme volumes using…