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A Case for Private PaaS

PaaS in a Box

A couple of weeks back, at the IBF Panel discussion on PaaS, we were discussing the opportunity for a Private PaaS. While a Private Cloud is typically associated with IaaS, I started to ponder on the value of a Private PaaS offering. Installing the development platform / runtime running .NET or Java stack on a [...]

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Do We Need ODBC for the Cloud?

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It is a good sign that Google has decided to expose their Storage API based on Amazon S3 API. Eucalyptus Walrus Storage API is completely compatible with S3. There has been a discussion on standardizing the API for the Cloud Storage. What fueled this discussion further is a poll that ReadWriteWeb.com ran on their site.While [...]

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Is Private Cloud the Future of IT?

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Cloud Computing can be realized through multiple implementation models. One of the implementations that is gaining a lot of interest is the Private Cloud.  This article attempts to look at the key attributes of an ideal Private Cloud and takes a futuristic view of the Private Cloud in an enterprise from the IaaS perspective. Private [...]

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Cloud Computing – What’s in it for you?

The expectations around Cloud Computing are very high. It is one of the most discussed terminologies among CIOs, developers and IT managers. While there is certainly more hype around it than what it really is, Cloud Computing is definitely promising. Gartner calls the year 2010 as the year of Cloud Computing. No doubt! Cloud Computing [...]

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Cloud Personas and Their Concerns

As one of the stakeholders of the Cloud ecosystem, I persuade, motivate and encourage decision makers in my circle to take a serious look at the Cloud. I want to share my experiences of having these conversations with the audiences. Off late, I came across a few IT Managers and technology decision makers whose thought [...]

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Is it Azure vs. Rest of the World on the Cloud?

The landscape of the application development platform is divided into two – .NET and Java. When Microsoft announced .NET a decade back, I expected that they would officially come out with an Application Server to compete with the Weblogic and the Webspheres of the world. But Microsoft’s pitch has always been that Windows Server has [...]

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VMforce – What’s in it for us?

Yesterday, SalesForce.com and VMware jointly announced a new PaaS offering called VMforce. This is a huge announcement that has a very strong impact on the Cloud ecosystem. Let’s see what it means to us. The enterprise application development platform is dominated by two obvious platforms – .NET and Java. I qualified my statement with the [...]

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Cloud App and the Unmanned Aircraft System

According to Wikipedia, an unmanned aircraft system or unmanned aerial vehicle is an aircraft that flies without human crew on board the aircraft. … a UAV is defined as a reusable, uncrewed vehicle capable of controlled , sustained, level flight and powered by a jet or reciprocating engine. So, what is the difference between an [...]

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Cloud as the Meta Platform

I recently attempted running Sun Glassfish and JVM on Azure. I am obviously inspired by Steve Marx who posted his ideas around the same. But this exercise of porting non MS stuff to Azure gave me a whole new perspective of the Cloud that I want to share with you. At a very high level, [...]

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How Sun Missed the Bus to the Cloud

It is a known fact that Java never helped Sun in generating enough revenues to keep it going. Commercial App Server vendors like IBM, BEA/Oracle have benefitted more from Java than Sun. Sun got carried away with the initial euphoria around Java created by the developer community. Though Microsoft came out with the unified language [...]

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