Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
History has many examples of invaders wielding steel swords, repeating rifles, or whatever the latest weapon may be, driving out people who are less well-equipped. Corporate IT departments are starting to go the same way, at the hands of people equipped with cloud computing.
The Open ...
Generally, I believe standards are a good thing for both technology consumers and providers. For consumers, they act as a focusing lens for the kinds of capabilities they should be looking for from a particular implementation (regardless of the technology we are talking about). From a ...
The last couple of years have been painful, to say the least. Some call them unprecedented, financially, but I do believe that is pushing the descriptor a bit far, since there have been plenty of instances where business pretty much en-masse questioned the amount that IT returns for th...
Not that it was ever down and out, but the whole cloud computing concept has gotten off to a grand but challenging start. It was all the rage when first ‘conceived’ as the new way of hosting applications with the promise of cost savings, automation, flexible/dynamic architectures, fas...
As IT organizations move forward with their virtualization initiatives, consolidating operations and shrinking provisioning times, the cloud has come along as an even more compelling option. In the cloud, companies can build capacity on-demand without having to own or manage the comput...
Last week the US Army released a procurement solicitation for the Army Private Cloud. This $249M solicitation calls for a 1-year base period with four, 1-year options. Department of the Army, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA [ALT]), Progr...
I heard it said the other day, regarding the OpenStack announcement, that “the world does not care about APIs.”
Unpossible! How could the world not care about APIs? After all, it is APIs that make the Web (2.0) go around. It is APIs that drive the automation of infrastructure from sta...
In the data center of the future, you are going to need to be able to bring up new instances of an application, have them fully functional without any user intervention, and when they’re no longer needed they should clean up after themselves and quietly go away. Five years ago this was...
In the last post, I wrote about the importance of having a client designate the right internal project manager for the SFDC implementation project. Staying with the theme of sharing Salesforce.com implementation and consulting best practices I'll share some thoughts today on document...
This guest post was written by James Mowery, a computer geek that writes about technology and related topics.
For the Ubuntu faithful, the recent announcement that Canonical could be expanding their business relationship with IBM in regards to the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud platform is ...
This also seems to be a natural adjacent market for Amazon (the IaaS company – not the online retailer). If they already successfully host web startups and are the most well-known compute platform for tasks such video transcoding or text recognition – why not use that same expertise an...
With security and legal concerns being slowly addressed by the industry, lock-in and standards are rapidly becoming the biggest concerns regarding cloud computing. If the cloud industry is to make good on its promise, these will need to somehow be addressed. Let’s examine some recent d...
[google_apps] I remember 3 years ago having a conversation with Vint Cerf and Lewis Shepherd about federal data in the Google Cloud. Lewis and I both shared what we believed to be key obstacles Google would have to surmount before gaining widespread acceptance of their cloud capabilit...
There are a lot of great blogs out there that focus on Salesforce.com. I know this because I actively read many of them. Most are written with a focus on development and administration, with technical code sharing and feature explanations. This type of information is certainly a grea...
Ever send SMS messages to your Contacts and Leads?
I recently had a conversation with a fairly new Salesforce customer who wanted to send SMS messages to their leads and contacts. They had been using another CRM system that gave them this ability and it’s an integral part of the way ...
I want to share a recent real-world use case where Batch Apex was used to achieve our goal. If you’re not familiar with Batch Apex you can find more here in the Salesforce Development Docs.
An organization’s sales team is using Salesforce CRM primarily to manage their Leads, Contacts...
Designing applications for the cloud is not business as usual. Though it is not rocket science, it has several nuances which are somewhat counterintuitive. Let me be more specific about what I mean by designing application for cloud. First let me exclude the whole universe of Software-...
This week, we’re exploring the problems associated with leveraging traditional monitoring solutions in a Cloud delivery paradigm.
There is a common assumption that leveraging a Cloud operating model will save money. We won’t debate the accuracy of this statement (tune into our next i...
Where Enterprise 2.0 overlaps with Cloud computing is a very hot area for new ventures, as it helps to bring together a number of disparate and also quite technical strands and packages them into business and user-centric solutions.
As the ideas and concepts behind PaaS platforms continue to evolve, it is becoming quite clear that they those platforms will consist of many facets. These systems will consist of application runtime services (both shared and dedicated), application modeling capabilities, and runtime m...
Early on SSL VPNs were fairly simple – allowing access to just about everything on the corporate network to authenticated users. It soon became apparent this was not acceptable for several reasons, most prominently standing out the risk of infection by remote employees who might have b...
The Cloud Computing paradigm involves the delivery of services utilizing a distributed set of assets each connected seamlessly through a high speed communication link over the Internet. This makes the entire solution universally accessible while providing enhanced agility and reduced c...
New cloud technology is here. Microsoft is ‘all in’, Google always has been and IBM is plowed into cloud services through LotusLive. Independents like Cobweb and Rackspace (who provide 1.7 million business users with cloud email and storage have been making large amounts out of this fo...
My partner and I consult with a variety of firms on the topic of cloud adoption. It is surprising how few really understand the strategic and ROI benefits of its application. Total Cost of Ownership is an important number to use when evaluating IT and in particular when comparing extan...
Just as there’s vanilla and chocolate and other ice cream flavors that different people gravitate towards, there are four favorite flavors today to cloud computing, according to an article I just read on IT World. A lot of this I’ve heard already, and certainly seen already among my Mo...
I spent a couple of days in Austin at HostingCon, meeting with a broad cross-section of the hosting community. Rackspace CTO John Engates and lots of other “Rackers” were there to promote OpenStack. Most of the other big mass-market shared hosters were there too – like The Planet, Ho...
Here are my slides from today’s talk at today’s OSCON, Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing presented with John Willis (VP of Services at Opscode) and Alex Honor (Founder of DTO Solutions and Leader of the Control Tier Project). The idea we hoped to convey is that integration b...
“The cloud might be a deal breaker for many software companies, either from a licensing standpoint or because their software is not extensible.”
We sat down with Emmanuel Garcin, Vice President & General Manager of Jahia Inc., in Washington, DC to discuss the open source CMS Cloud off...
It seems that the world of academia is coming up with a new way for cloud platforms — which offer individual computer users and companies access to powerful computers and software applications hosted by remote groups of servers — a kind of early warning system that can predict bottlene...
At some point in the past few years SOA apparently became a four-letter word (as opposed to just a TLA that leaves a bad taste in your mouth) or folks are simply unwilling – or unable – to recognize the parallels between SOA and cloud computing .
This is mildly amusing given the heavy...
Konfuzius-1770 There has been a lot of press already about OpenStack’s announcement yesterday about their new open source cloud computing software. OpenStack says that the goal is, ‘to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software r...
There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra Rackspace Champion's Open Source CloudAppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In op...
Jahia announced three new client wins in the cloud, brought on by Jahia Partner R.Ø.S.A. Creation Technology Intelligence AG: Kuoni Travel Ltd., Sunrise Communications AG, Bellevue Group AG. Jahia has experienced a growing acceptance for hosted web content management, even in conservat...
When Rackspace first started talking with me about open sourcing their cloud software, I was truly intrigued. The idea of releasing the software behind their cloud was unexpected given that most cloud providers treat their infrastructure, and particularly their control software, as a ...
Today has seen the vision of an open source cloud move one step closer with the launch of the OpenStack project. The project has the backing of over 25 leading technology companies and NASA, and is designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. The...
[openstack] Late yesterday, Rackspace launched OpenStack with a reasonable community of boosters. OpenStack aims to disrupt the cloud stack red ocean with a complete open source release of the Rackspace CloudServers compute and CloudFiles object storage systems for use by anybody. Imp...
Seems to me there’s a lot of movement toward a broader, stronger cloud infrastructure these days in all parts of the world, but I’m particularly struck by the activity in Asia. For example, last year we responded to rising customer demand for monitoring services in China by...
The MVC for the Cloud meme got me thinking about other principles that might apply to programming the Web as a whole. A lot of the principle's we routinely apply to web apps to great effect seem to have analogies. All in all, we're likely to want to replicate all the power and flexibil...
SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held each year in California, New York and Prague is the leading event covering the fast-emerging Cloud Computing market for Enterprise IT professionals. Co-located with the International Virtualization Conference & Expo, the combined event will surely deliver the #1 i-Technology educational and networking opportunity of the year for those seeking to establish a market lead anywhere in the multiple layers of the Cloud Computing ecosystem.
Senior Technologists including CIOs, CTOs, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, communications and networking specialists, directors of infrastructure Business Executives including CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, presidents, VPs, directors, business development; product and purchasing managers.
Cloud Computing Journal aims to help open the eyes of Enterprise IT professionals to the economics and strategies that utility/cloud computing provides. Cloud computing - the provision of scalable IT resources as a service, using Internet technologies - potentially impacts every aspect of how IT deploys and operates software.
Government IT Conference & Expo 2009 Allstar Conference Faculty Lineup Will Include...
In other words, VMware’s server density is higher. Boles suggests this means that customers should be “assessing virtualisation on a ‘cost per application’ basis. VM density has a sign
Traditionally, the way people have implemented high availability is by using a high-availability management package like Linux-HA[1], then configure it in detail for each application, file system moun
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Mr. and Mrs. President Bashar al-Assad:
At the tender age of 17 months my severely ill daughter Sofia, an American citizen, was abducted by her mother on Monday, July 26, in Istanbul, Turkey, and taken to Syria.
I was informed yesterday by Sofia's mother that she will not be comi...
History has many examples of invaders wielding steel swords, repeating rifles, or whatever the latest weapon may be, driving out people who are less well-equipped. Corporate IT departments are starting to go the same way, at the hands of people equipped with cloud computing.
The Open ...
Generally, I believe standards are a good thing for both technology consumers and providers. For consumers, they act as a focusing lens for the kinds of capabilities they should be looking for from a particular implementation (regardless of the technology we are talking about). From a ...
The last couple of years have been painful, to say the least. Some call them unprecedented, financially, but I do believe that is pushing the descriptor a bit far, since there have been plenty of instances where business pretty much en-masse questioned the amount that IT returns for th...
Not that it was ever down and out, but the whole cloud computing concept has gotten off to a grand but challenging start. It was all the rage when first ‘conceived’ as the new way of hosting applications with the promise of cost savings, automation, flexible/dynamic architectures, fas...
As IT organizations move forward with their virtualization initiatives, consolidating operations and shrinking provisioning times, the cloud has come along as an even more compelling option. In the cloud, companies can build capacity on-demand without having to own or manage the comput...
Last week the US Army released a procurement solicitation for the Army Private Cloud. This $249M solicitation calls for a 1-year base period with four, 1-year options. Department of the Army, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA [ALT]), Progr...
I heard it said the other day, regarding the OpenStack announcement, that “the world does not care about APIs.”
Unpossible! How could the world not care about APIs? After all, it is APIs that make the Web (2.0) go around. It is APIs that drive the automation of infrastructure from sta...
In the data center of the future, you are going to need to be able to bring up new instances of an application, have them fully functional without any user intervention, and when they’re no longer needed they should clean up after themselves and quietly go away. Five years ago this was...
In the last post, I wrote about the importance of having a client designate the right internal project manager for the SFDC implementation project. Staying with the theme of sharing Salesforce.com implementation and consulting best practices I'll share some thoughts today on document...
This guest post was written by James Mowery, a computer geek that writes about technology and related topics.
For the Ubuntu faithful, the recent announcement that Canonical could be expanding their business relationship with IBM in regards to the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud platform is ...
This also seems to be a natural adjacent market for Amazon (the IaaS company – not the online retailer). If they already successfully host web startups and are the most well-known compute platform for tasks such video transcoding or text recognition – why not use that same expertise an...
With security and legal concerns being slowly addressed by the industry, lock-in and standards are rapidly becoming the biggest concerns regarding cloud computing. If the cloud industry is to make good on its promise, these will need to somehow be addressed. Let’s examine some recent d...
[google_apps] I remember 3 years ago having a conversation with Vint Cerf and Lewis Shepherd about federal data in the Google Cloud. Lewis and I both shared what we believed to be key obstacles Google would have to surmount before gaining widespread acceptance of their cloud capabilit...
There are a lot of great blogs out there that focus on Salesforce.com. I know this because I actively read many of them. Most are written with a focus on development and administration, with technical code sharing and feature explanations. This type of information is certainly a grea...
Ever send SMS messages to your Contacts and Leads?
I recently had a conversation with a fairly new Salesforce customer who wanted to send SMS messages to their leads and contacts. They had been using another CRM system that gave them this ability and it’s an integral part of the way ...
I want to share a recent real-world use case where Batch Apex was used to achieve our goal. If you’re not familiar with Batch Apex you can find more here in the Salesforce Development Docs.
An organization’s sales team is using Salesforce CRM primarily to manage their Leads, Contacts...
Designing applications for the cloud is not business as usual. Though it is not rocket science, it has several nuances which are somewhat counterintuitive. Let me be more specific about what I mean by designing application for cloud. First let me exclude the whole universe of Software-...
This week, we’re exploring the problems associated with leveraging traditional monitoring solutions in a Cloud delivery paradigm.
There is a common assumption that leveraging a Cloud operating model will save money. We won’t debate the accuracy of this statement (tune into our next i...
Where Enterprise 2.0 overlaps with Cloud computing is a very hot area for new ventures, as it helps to bring together a number of disparate and also quite technical strands and packages them into business and user-centric solutions.
As the ideas and concepts behind PaaS platforms continue to evolve, it is becoming quite clear that they those platforms will consist of many facets. These systems will consist of application runtime services (both shared and dedicated), application modeling capabilities, and runtime m...
Early on SSL VPNs were fairly simple – allowing access to just about everything on the corporate network to authenticated users. It soon became apparent this was not acceptable for several reasons, most prominently standing out the risk of infection by remote employees who might have b...
The Cloud Computing paradigm involves the delivery of services utilizing a distributed set of assets each connected seamlessly through a high speed communication link over the Internet. This makes the entire solution universally accessible while providing enhanced agility and reduced c...
New cloud technology is here. Microsoft is ‘all in’, Google always has been and IBM is plowed into cloud services through LotusLive. Independents like Cobweb and Rackspace (who provide 1.7 million business users with cloud email and storage have been making large amounts out of this fo...
My partner and I consult with a variety of firms on the topic of cloud adoption. It is surprising how few really understand the strategic and ROI benefits of its application. Total Cost of Ownership is an important number to use when evaluating IT and in particular when comparing extan...
Just as there’s vanilla and chocolate and other ice cream flavors that different people gravitate towards, there are four favorite flavors today to cloud computing, according to an article I just read on IT World. A lot of this I’ve heard already, and certainly seen already among my Mo...
I spent a couple of days in Austin at HostingCon, meeting with a broad cross-section of the hosting community. Rackspace CTO John Engates and lots of other “Rackers” were there to promote OpenStack. Most of the other big mass-market shared hosters were there too – like The Planet, Ho...
Here are my slides from today’s talk at today’s OSCON, Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing presented with John Willis (VP of Services at Opscode) and Alex Honor (Founder of DTO Solutions and Leader of the Control Tier Project). The idea we hoped to convey is that integration b...
“The cloud might be a deal breaker for many software companies, either from a licensing standpoint or because their software is not extensible.”
We sat down with Emmanuel Garcin, Vice President & General Manager of Jahia Inc., in Washington, DC to discuss the open source CMS Cloud off...
It seems that the world of academia is coming up with a new way for cloud platforms — which offer individual computer users and companies access to powerful computers and software applications hosted by remote groups of servers — a kind of early warning system that can predict bottlene...
At some point in the past few years SOA apparently became a four-letter word (as opposed to just a TLA that leaves a bad taste in your mouth) or folks are simply unwilling – or unable – to recognize the parallels between SOA and cloud computing .
This is mildly amusing given the heavy...
Konfuzius-1770 There has been a lot of press already about OpenStack’s announcement yesterday about their new open source cloud computing software. OpenStack says that the goal is, ‘to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source software r...
There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra Rackspace Champion's Open Source CloudAppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In op...
Jahia announced three new client wins in the cloud, brought on by Jahia Partner R.Ø.S.A. Creation Technology Intelligence AG: Kuoni Travel Ltd., Sunrise Communications AG, Bellevue Group AG. Jahia has experienced a growing acceptance for hosted web content management, even in conservat...
When Rackspace first started talking with me about open sourcing their cloud software, I was truly intrigued. The idea of releasing the software behind their cloud was unexpected given that most cloud providers treat their infrastructure, and particularly their control software, as a ...
Today has seen the vision of an open source cloud move one step closer with the launch of the OpenStack project. The project has the backing of over 25 leading technology companies and NASA, and is designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. The...
[openstack] Late yesterday, Rackspace launched OpenStack with a reasonable community of boosters. OpenStack aims to disrupt the cloud stack red ocean with a complete open source release of the Rackspace CloudServers compute and CloudFiles object storage systems for use by anybody. Imp...
Seems to me there’s a lot of movement toward a broader, stronger cloud infrastructure these days in all parts of the world, but I’m particularly struck by the activity in Asia. For example, last year we responded to rising customer demand for monitoring services in China by...
The MVC for the Cloud meme got me thinking about other principles that might apply to programming the Web as a whole. A lot of the principle's we routinely apply to web apps to great effect seem to have analogies. All in all, we're likely to want to replicate all the power and flexibil...
