Category: Cloud testing
London-based communications SaaS provider Mimecast has announced the results of its second annual Cloud Adoption Survey. The survey, conducted by independent research firm Loudhouse, assessed the attitudes of IT decision-makers in the U.S. and UK about cloud computing. Continue
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IBM is launching a token based service for its Rational software that could be the basis for a currency that is used to exchange credits for using cloud-based applications.
The service is being tested first with Rational and then could be rolled out to other IBM software.
The "token," based service is a type of cloud currency that is defined by the usage and the value of the product that the customer is using on the IBM Cloud.Continue
Although by no means a new technology, cloud computing retains the buzz as one of the latest innovative - and potentially transformative - elements of the industry. But there remains quite a bit of confusion about what exactly is meant by cloud computing, often making the question of whether or not your startup should be in the cloud difficult to answer.
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The deep complexities of managing a cloud infrastructure for the enterprise are only just beginning to emerge.
Today we are at Gluecon, talking with three companies about managing that complexity in the cloud. Let's take a quick look at these three companies and the services they provide.
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The complexities that come with cloud computing go way beyond interoperability issues.
Cost is a significant factor as is performance.
What's emerging from these forces are new services such as Digital Fuel and Nimsoft that are designed to bring meaning to the costs and the performance issues that come with cloud computing.Continue
The team over at CloudKick have been busy connecting open standards with its efforts to monitor cloud computing. By focusing on different cloud providers and listening to customers, the company is in a good position to nudge cloud computing implementations towards open source - and live to tell about it.
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Twitter is moving to its own data center, showing that sometimes the cloud is not ideal for the real-time web.
This may seem ironic as cloud computing is largely credited for giving application developers access to commoditized server networks that they can scale up or down. Cloud services make it realistic for developers to create real-time services in the marketplace.
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Cloud computing creates enough disruptions for small businesses that it seems almost folly when we hear some of the stories we do.
We heard one story about an IT department that said that the company could not afford to have more people accessing the Internet. Yes, the Internet is too expensive for small business. Maybe it's time to scrap the dial up?Continue
Tomorrow, GroundWork Open Source Inc. and Eucalyptus Systems will be announcing that they have partnered to deliver monitoring and management of applications running in a Eucalyptus private cloud environment.
If your enterprise is running private cloud powered by Eucalyptus, you now can plug your cloud into the GroundWork's monitoring solution. This allows you to join your view of resources from Amazon and other servers in your enterprise with your private cloud solution.Continue
