Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Cloud Computing Journal recently caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of cloud management innovators Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem and Platinum Plus Sponsor of 6th Cloud Expo being held in Prague, the Czech Republic, 21-22 June 2010. Malcolm is keynoting at the event. His theme will be "An Open Cloud Ecosystem - the Gathering Storm." Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Abiquo was also Platinum Plus Sponsor of the 5th International Cloud Expo held April 19-21, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City Cloud Computing Journal: How would you define the difference between Private clouds and Public Clouds, and why is the distinction so important in the context of Cloud Computing? Pete Malcolm: Actually, I think people get rather too hun... (more)

BigDataExpo New York Speaker Profile: Eric Baldeschwieler – Hortonworks

With BigDataExpo 2012 New York (www.BigDataExpo.net), co-located with 10th Cloud Expo, due to kick off next week for 4 days of high-energy networking and discussions, what better time to remind you in greater detail of the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...? We have technical and strategy sessions for you every day from June 11 through June 14 dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing and Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud that is transforming the world of Enterprise IT, side by side with the exploding use of enterprise Big Data – processed in the Cloud – to drive value for businesses...? BIGDATAEXPO EXPO SPEAKER NAME: Eric Baldeschwieler TWITTER: @jeric14 COMPANY: Hort... (more)

Docker and DevOps In An "Internet Of Things" Application

Using Docker For a Complex IoT Application Aater Suleman, CEO & Co-Founder at Flux7, is an industry veteran in performance optimization on servers and distributed systems. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also currently teaches computer systems design and architecture. His current interests are in optimizing DevOps and reducing cloud costs. In his @ThingsExpo presentation, Aaater Suleman will discuss DevOps, Linux containers, Docker in developing a complex Internet of Things application. The goal of any DevOps solution is to optimize multiple processes in an organization. And success does not necessarily require that in executing the strategy everything needs to be automated to produce an effective plan. Yet, it is important that processes are put in place to handle a necessary list of items. Flux7 is a consulting group with a focus ... (more)

Getting Started with the @VictorOps Transmogrifier | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

Craftsy Case Study: Getting started with the VictorOps Transmogrifier By Samantha Haltman When VictorOps launched the Transmogrifier private beta program last November, Craftsy was eager to see what the feature was capable of. For this case study, we spoke with David Palma, DevOps Engineer at Craftsy, to hear what he had to say about his experience… “Rule creation for this feature was extremely straight forward” “VictorOps beat us to the punch.” When we found out about the new Transmogrifier feature, we were actually in the process of building something similar internally. We realized there was a serious disconnect between the alerts coming in, and the information available surrounding the alert. Implementing the Transmogrifier provided exactly what we were looking for with regards to annotations, and saved us a lot of time since we didn’t have to build this functio... (more)

The pros and cons of business-app implemention via open-source software (Part 1)

(LinuxWorld) — This is the first installment of a series comparing the implementation results for real business applications. We'll examine business-application implementation using Unix tools and ideas and how this plan of attack compares to what happens when the same apps are implemented using Microsoft-licensed software. Each application will be the subject of two articles. The first one will present the theoretical — or "book-learning" — view of the issue and invite readers with real-world experience in using the technologies to contact the author in confidence to correct my errors, give your estimate of the time needed for the work and discuss what goes wrong when you try to go from theory to practice. The follow-up article will then try to summarize community experience with the technologies in order to draw out conclusions everyone can use an... (more)

SCO Subpoenas Linus, Others; IBM Returns the Favor

On the SCO-IBM front, the SCO Group, in pressing its $3 million case against IBM, has subpoenaed: Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and chief developer of the Linux kernel; John Horsley, the general counsel of Transmeta, Torvalds' employer; Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, father of the GPL and industry gadfly; Stuart Cohen, CEO of the Open Software Development Lab, where Torvalds works and where major vendors like IBM are stitching together enterprise-class versions of Linux; A John Doe or Does at Novell, which once owned Unix, still claims enough residual rights in the thing to absolve IBM of any wrongdoing over SCO's head and now the shiny new owner of SUSE Linux; And last but not least a John Doe at Digeo, which continues to officially employ Andrew Morton, the number two guy in Linux kernel development, although he's working on the kern... (more)

Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because they can only give you answers." Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed. What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX? Eric Miraglia of Yahoo! 1.  (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the iPhone SDK vs using AJAX? 2.  How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to make it faster?  3.  When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for my rich web apps?  Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)

A New Approach to Unit Tests

What does a new approach to unit tests mean? Isnt JUnit or TestNG enough and fine? They put test classes on focus and starts from them all tests. I decided to start a new open source project providing testing tools that put class under test at the centre. ... (more)

Hummer Winblad Principal Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Lars Leckie's Blog In a recent report, Gartner made some bold predictions around the near-term future of SaaS. In essence they are endorsing that the SaaS model has increasing leverage over existing software models as the IT spending tightens: Worldwide software-as-a-service revenue in the enterprise application market is on pace to surpass 2007 sales by 27% and to more than double by 2012, a market research firm said Wednesday. Revenue this year is on track to rise above $6.4 billion, compared with $5.1 billion last year, Gartner said. In four years, revenue is expected to reach $14.8 billion. (from Antone Gonsalvez at InformationWeek) While it is always a little dangerous to follow predictions from analysts when considering your specific market or application, this announcement is an interesting one given the current economic conditions. We share this premise at Hummer... (more)

Examining Cloud Compatibility, Portability and Interoperability

Over the last few months there has been a growing amount of momentum around cloud interoperability. Lately it seems that a few in the industry have gotten a little confused on the differences between Cloud Compatibility, Portability and Interoperability. So I thought it might be time to take a closer look at the various terms and how they relate as well as how they differ. First lets start with Cloud Interoperability. As I've described before, Cloud Interoperability refers to the ability for multiple cloud platforms to work together or inter-operate. A key driver of an interoperable cloud computing ecosystem is to eliminate what I call proprietary "API Propagation" whereby each new cloud service provides their own unique set of web services and application programming interfaces. Simply, the goal of Cloud Interoperability is to make it easier to use multiple cloud p... (more)

Enterprise Java EE PaaS - OpenShift vs Google App Engine for Java

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) represents a complete preintegrated platform offering for the development and operation of general purpose business applications. A fully preintegrated and standardized platform - offered in a multi-tenant mode as a managed service - means much less manual effort than installing and configuring middleware components in on-premise servers. Enterprise architecture patterns and framework changed heavily during the last decade, the software / platform / framework upgrades eat up the major chunk of it budgets and leaving relatively smaller portion for business innovation. One of the important goals of PaaS is to relieve the enterprises from the trouble of upgrades and concentrate on business value to clients. Due to the above out-of-the-box features for enterprises, PaaS is considered an enabler for innovation. The... (more)