Posts Tagged ‘Cloud Computing’
Is PaaS the future of Web Hosting?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 20, 2012
As the world is moving to online in general and cloud in particular, what is going to happen to the $40 bln hosting industry? Parallels (which is probably the largest software vendor for hosters) published video recordings from their Parallels Summit 2012, including this keynote fro their founder Serguei Beloussov. At 31:51 mark he talks [...]
What Satya Nadella means to Azure future
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 11, 2011
- In: Microsoft
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With the recent changes in the leadership of one of Microsoft’s key business units – Server and Tools – from Bob Muglia to Satya Nadella one can’t help speculating what this means for the business unit and how it will affect Microsoft’s cloud strategy, specifically Windows Azure – Microsoft’s platform as a service. Here’s my uneducated [...]
Will 2011 be the year of IT Management as a Service?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 19, 2011
In this article in Enterprise Systems Journal I argue that this might very well be the case. Here’s a quick excerpt: IT professionals seem to be the most conservative crowd when it comes to the cloud. While we all have been uploading our pictures to Flickr and communicating via Facebook, and our sales reps have been utilizing [...]
Chrome OS shooting for consumers or enterprise?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 14, 2010
Marco Arment from Instapaper thinks that Chrome OS will have limited appeal for consumers, will target businesses and not be well-received there due to lack of proper enterprise support and commitment. Here are a few quotes from Marco: Google’s targeting of Chrome OS is interesting. Rather than trying to attract consumers, who have demonstrated that they’re not interested in [...]
Cloud track announced for TEC 2011
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 26, 2010
What do enterprise IT architects need to know about the Cloud? What is the difference between SAML and OAuth? Can you really host an AD domain controller in the cloud? How do you enable single sign-on (SSO) between Active Directory and Salesforce.com? Microsoft’s Office 365 or Google Apps? What is the state of art for [...]
Cloud with an eagle eye
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 21, 2010
Cloud can make your environment *more* secure. A new cloud service alerts IT pros when specific events happen in their environment. For example, you might want to receive an email when a sensitive resource gets accessed, certain permissions get granted, membership for a privileged group gets changed and so on. This all is now part of the [...]
Cloud or On-Premise: Which is more secure?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 15, 2010
- In: Security
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It bugs me that for some irrational reason there is still a common-sense believe that data is more protected when kept in someone’s own datacenter and not with a trusted cloud provider. US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just published data on past year data breaches in the medical industry. These only [...]
Gartner case study on transition from software to services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 30, 2010
Ruggero Contu has published a case study which he created after studying Quest Software‘s transition from being a pure software vendor to also a SaaS cloud-based IT management company: “Case Study: Quest Leverages Cloud Services to Introduce SaaS-Based Log Management Product” (registration required to access the page): Although new business opportunities can justify a SaaS [...]
Cloud Systems Management talk in Silicon Valley
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 30, 2010
This Monday, August 2nd, 2010 I will be talking about how cloud computing is transforming the Systems Management industry at the Cloud Computing usergroup in Mountain View, CA. Here’s the abstract: As SaaS and cloud matures and gets wider acceptance it starts affecting new markets and application areas. While more and more widely adopted in consumer space, [...]
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- The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays [...]
- Remote Access to MySQL in Jelastic: Import/Export Dump Files in a Few Minutes May 24, 2012Recently, we told you about that another cool feature that you have access to in the commercial version of Jelastic, Public IPv4. With a single click you access to a number of cool new capabilities. One of the most important opportunity you get with this feature is the ability to work with your databases remotely and [...]
- The Jelastic Newsletter – May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012Java 7 adoption, Commercial releases in Europe and Russia and Software stack market share. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: Commercial Releases in Europe and Russia As we continue to grow and add partners, we are happy to say that, as of yes […]
- We are now available commercially in Europe! May 22, 2012In partnership with dogado, we are now available commercially in Germany The last few weeks have been hectic here at Jelastic! We launched commercially in the US with ServInt; then we did the same in Russian with Rusonyx; and now we have launched commercially in Europe with Germany. Now in Europe Our commercial release with [...]
- Software stacks market share: May 2012 May 21, 2012Every month we share stats on the usage and popularity of different software stacks within Jelastic PaaS with you. This month it’s even more interesting, because the scope of our stats has grown: we have a new hosting partner in Russia, Rusonyx. So, let’s check out the stats on databases, servers and JVMs for May and analyze the differences betwe […]
- Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
- Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx May 17, 2012Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider […]
Windows Azure – Officially failing to get traction?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 10, 2012
Everyone suspected that Windows Azure was not a blazing success. Now the official stats seem to suggest that it is pretty much a failure. Microsoft does not tell the exact number of users it has on their cloud platform – Windows Azure, however a couple of day ago we got the latest vague estimate from [...]