Platform as a Service

Last week Amazon Web Services added another feather in the cap in the form of a brand new NoSQL service called DynamoDB. Though it looks like yet another announcement from the Amazon stable, this is huge. It has a strong impact not just on AWS but the industry. In the last couple of years, there has been massive rush in the NoSQL database market. Many companies sprung up offering a variety of schema-less, scale out databases. Major Cloud platform providers have their own offerings in the form of Amazon SimpleDB, Google BigTable and Windows Azure Table storage. Recent entrants in the PaaS segment started supporting MongoDB and the likes to provide the NoSQL capabilities to the stack. So, how is DynamoDB different from Amazon’s SimpleDB and other similar NoSQL databases? Read the complete article at CloudStory.in   ... (more)

Q & A Session with the Red Hat CEO

Last week I had the privilege of being on stage with the CEO of Red Hat Mr. Jim WhiteHurst and the GM of Red Hat India, Mr. Anuj Kumar. I was invited to be a part of the OpenEdge event that Red Hat has hosted for their enterprise customers in India. Red Hat has a compelling Cloud strategy for its customers. On the IaaS front, they have CloudForms that enables enterprises and service providers build Private and Public Clouds. Red Hat OpenShift is the PaaS offering based on Makara that Red Hat has acquired last year. Other products like Red Hat MRG and the recent acquisition of G... (more)

Confusion Surrounds PaaS for Federal IT Buyers

VIENNA, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 —NJVC, one of the largest information technology solutions providers supporting the U.S. Department of Defense, and Virtual Global, a premier provider of software and cloud computing platform solutions for a variety of industry and federal customers, announce the release of a joint white paper, “Platform as a Service (Paas): What Is It? Why Is It So Important?.” The paper clarifies the confusion surrounding PaaS for IT decision makers in the federal government. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggests PaaS as a component of th... (more)

Cloud Storage Gateway Market Starting to Catch Fire

You may have seen Amazon’s announcement of the AWS Storage Gateway beta here, here, and here. Truth be told, the cloud storage gateway market is starting to catch fire. Amazon’s move validates the need for an iSCSI cloud storage gateway to easily deliver cloud storage into business environments and acknowledges that integration through APIs is not a process businesses will easily embrace. The deeper implication is that gateways facilitate the adoption of cloud storage as an alternative to on-premise or off-premise traditional storage, helping Amazon tap into a large multi-billio... (more)

PaaS Best Practices : Platform for Hybrid SaaS

The GC Community Cloud ITSS documentation stipulates the Cloud service specifications that the Government of Canada plans to deploy, and can be used by external commercial providers as well as internally by Shared Services Canada users. They provide technical design blueprints for security configurations to ensure Cloud environments are compliant with Government of Canada standards. Primarily they can be used as industry-wide product specifications because they’re based on the NIST models that are now universally recognized as the default Cloud Best Practices, and relate to how s... (more)