The margins of cloud products like virtual machines are still in the 50%
range. In essence, price drops are going to be a regular feature for the
foreseeable future. This begets the question - are hosted solutions becoming
irrelevant today?
Boston-based market research firm, 451 Research, has been publishing their
‘Cloud Price Index' for a few years now. The quarterly study looks into the
pricing of various offerings in the cloud market to understand the shifting
dynamics in the public, private and hybrid cloud market. According to Dr.
Owen Rogers from 451 Research, the approach here is similar to how inflation
is calculated - the price of a distributed sample of products from the market
are analyzed periodically to ascertain the rise or drop in the prices of the
various cloud offerings.
One big takeaway from the various reports published over the years is how
muc... (more)
The time of year when crystal balls get a viewing and many pundits put out
their annual predictions for the coming year. Rather than thinking up my own,
I figured I’d regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen.
8 Predictions About How the Security Industry Will Fare in 2017 – An eWeek
slideshow looking at areas like IoT, ransomware, automated attacks and the
security skills shortage in the industry. Chris Preimesberger (@editingwhiz),
who does a monthly #eweekchat on twitter, covers many of the worries facing
organizations.
10 IoT Predictions for 2017 – IoT was my number 1 in The Top 10, Top 10
Predictions for 2016 and no doubt, IoT will continue to cause havoc. People
focus so much on the ‘things’ themselves rather than the risk of an
internet connection. This list discusses how IoT will grow up in 2017, how
having a service component will be key, the com... (more)
The mad dash to connect virtually every noun to the internet or the Internet
of Things is creating a massive M2M network for all the devices, systems,
sensors and actuators to connect & communicate on the Internet.
With that, they need a communications protocol to understand each other. One
of those is Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT). MQTT is a “subscribe
and publish” messaging protocol designed for lightweight machine-to-machine
(or IoT) communications.
In this episode of Lightboard Lessons, I light up how MQTT works.
ps
Related:
IoT Ready Infrastructure IoT Effect on Applications IoT Influence on Society
What are These "Things? The Intruders of Things
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017 at Javits Center, New
York City, is co-located with 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature
technical sessions from a rock star conference facult... (more)
What’s this week about?
This is the final week of DevCentral’s Cloud Month so let’s close out
strong. Throughout the month Suzanne, Hitesh, Greg, Marty and Lori have taken
us on an interesting journey to share their unique cloud expertise. Last week
we covered areas like high availability, scalability, responsibility,
inter-connectivity and exploring the philosophy behind cloud deployment
models. We also got a nifty Lightboard Lesson covering BIG-IP in the private
cloud
This week’s focus is on maintaining, managing and operating your cloud
deployments. If you missed any of the previous articles, you can catch up
with our Cloud Month calendar and we’ll wrap up DevCentral’s Cloud Month
on Friday.
Thanks for taking the journey with us and hope it was educational,
informative and entertaining!
ps
Related:
Cloud Month on DevCentral DevCentral Cloud Month – Week Two D... (more)
As more organizations use APIs in their systems, they’ve become targets for
the not-so-good-doers so API Security is something you need to take
seriously. Most APIs today use the HTTP protocol so organizations should
protect them as they would ordinary web properties.
Starting in v13, BIG-IP APM is able to act as an OAuth Client, OAuth Resource
Server and OAuth Authorization Server. In this example, we will show how to
use BIG-IP APM to act as an OAuth Resource Server protecting the API.
In our environment, we’ve published an API (api.f5se.com) and we’re
trying to get a list of departments in the HR database. The API is not
natively protected and we want APM to enable OAuth protection to this API.
First, let’s try an unauthenticated request.
You can see we get the 401 Unauthorized response which is coming from the
BIG-IP. In this instance we’re only sending 3 header... (more)
#DCCloud17
The term ‘Cloud’ as in Cloud Computing has been around for a while. Some
insist Western Union invented the phrase in the 1960s; others point to a 1994
AT&T; ad for the PersonaLink Services; and still others argue it was Amazon in
2006 or Google a few years later. And Gartner had Cloud Computing at the top
of their Hype Cycle in 2009.
No matter the birth year, Cloud Computing has become an integral part of an
organization’s infrastructure and is not going away anytime soon. A 2017
SolarWinds IT Trends report says 95% of businesses have migrated critical
applications to the cloud and F5’s SOAD report notes that 20% of
organizations will have over half their applications in the cloud this year.
It is so critical that we’ve decided to dedicate the entire month of June
to the Cloud.
We’ve planned a cool cloud encounter for you this month. We’re lucky to
have... (more)
What’s this week about?
You got a mini taste of DevCentral’s Cloud Month last week and week two we
really dig in. This week we’re looking at Build and Deployment
considerations for the Cloud. The first step in successfully deploying in a
cloud infrastructure. Starting today, Suzanne and team show us how to deploy
an application in AWS; On Wednesday, Greg, harking the Hitchhiker’s Guide,
explains Azure’s Architectural Considerations; Marty uncovers Kubernetes
concepts and how to deploy an application in Kubernetes this Thursday; on
#Flashback Friday, Lori takes us down memory lane wondering if SOA is still
super. Filling my typical Tuesday spot, Hitesh reveals some foundational
building blocks of F5’s cloud/automated architectures.
These will help get you off the ground and your head in the clouds,
preferably Cloud Nine.
Enjoy!
ps
Related:
5 steps to building a c... (more)
The Year of the (Fire) Rooster will soon be upon us and the talkative,
outspoken, frank, open, honest, and loyal Rooster could influence events in
2017. Whether you were born under the symbol or not, Roosters strive on trust
and responsibility, essential for any organization especially in these times.
2016 (Year of the Monkey) brought us a crazy year of high profile breaches, a
500% increase in ransomware, a 0-day per day and slick malware each looking
to cause havoc on all parts of society including your mobile device. The
monkey’s shenanigans exhausted many of us in 2016 and 2017 will require
some quick thinking and practical solutions to battle the ongoing,
ever-growing threats.
A year ago I noted, Mobility, both the state of being and the devices we use,
will continue to grow and be an immense enabler and/or inhibitor for
organizations. Today, we are the devices... (more)
What Is the Domain Name System (DNS)?
Imagine how difficult it would be to use the Internet if you had to remember
dozens of number combinations to do anything. The Domain Name System (DNS)
was created in 1983 to enable humans to easily identify all the computers,
services, and resources connected to the Internet by name—instead of by
Internet Protocol (IP) address, an increasingly difficult-to-memorize string
of information. Think of all the website domain names you know off the top of
your head and how hard it would be to memorize specific IP addresses for all
those domain names. Think of DNS as the Internet’s phone book. A DNS server
translates the domain names you type into a browser, like www.f5.com, into an
IP address (104.219.105.148), which allows your device to find the resource
you’re looking for on the Internet.
DNS is a hierarchical distributed naming sy... (more)
The entire intent of load balancing is to create a system that virtualizes
the “service” from the physical servers that actually run that service. A
more basic definition is to balance the load across a bunch of physical
servers and make those servers look like one great big server to the outside
world. There are many reasons to do this, but the primary drivers can be
summarized as “scalability,” “high availability,” and
“predictability.”
Scalability is the capability of dynamically, or easily, adapting to
increased load without impacting existing performance. Service virtualization
presented an interesting opportunity for scalability; if the service, or the
point of user contact, was separated from the actual servers, scaling of the
application would simply mean adding more servers or cloud resources which
would not be visible to the end user.
High Availability ... (more)
What is VDI?
Imagine not having to carry around a laptop or be sitting in a cubicle to
access your work desktop applications. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
is appealing to many different constituencies because it combines the
benefits of anywhere access with desktop support improvements.
Employees typically use a wide range of mobile devices from laptops to
tablets and from desktops to smartphones are being used. The diversity of
these mobile devices and the sheer number of them in the workplace can
overwhelm IT and strain your resources.
Desktop Virtualization centralizes sets of desktops, usually in a data center
or cloud environment, and then provide access to your employees whether they
are in the office, at home or mobile. VDI deployments virtualize user
desktops by delivering them to distinctive endpoint devices over the network
from a central locatio... (more)
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