Cloud Components Framework: Software components from the cloud. Pintexx, an international company that focuses on sophisticated software solutions for the processing and optimizing of text, has just launched their Cloud Components Framework (CCF). At last the technical barriers can be broken with the help of the Cloud Components Framework (CCF).
Even complex applications like Microsoft Word can be employed as software components in web applications. For years, software developers have been employing all sorts of components in programs. As a rule, these are components of manageable size and complexity. With technologies like OLE, more complex application cores, like Microsoft Word, can also be integrated into applications. Problem: These technologies require a high level of technical know-how and a local installation. These technologies are not available for web applications and only a few programming languages are supported. These Cloud Components work without a local installation. CCF offers many benefits:• the use of complex applications like e.g.
Heroku | Cloud Application Platform. How it Works. Table of Contents This is a high-level, technical description of how Heroku works. It ties together many of the concepts you’ll encounter while writing, configuring, deploying and running applications on the Heroku platform. Performing one of the Getting Started tutorials will make the concepts in this documentation more concrete. Read this document sequentially: in order to tell a coherent story, it incrementally unveils and refines the concepts describing the platform. The final section ties all the definitions together, providing a deploy-time and runtime-view of Heroku. Defining an application Heroku lets you deploy, run and manage applications written in Ruby, Node.js, Java, Python, Clojure and Scala. An application is a collection of source code written in one of these languages, perhaps a framework, and some dependency description that instructs a build system as to which additional dependencies are needed in order to build and run the application.
Knowing what to execute Config vars. Amazon Web Services launches DNS system. Amazon Web Services on Monday launched a programmable Domain Name Service dubbed Route 53. With the service, AWS is allowing users to create, change and delete DNS files for any domain. AWS does this using a "hosted zone"," which acts as a phone book of sorts matching names to IP addresses. The idea is to control what server an end user will hit. Developers and business can use Route 53 optimize performance. In a blog post, AWS explains: "You could create a new sub-domain for each new customer of a Software as a Service (SaaS) application. DNS queries for information within your domains will be routed to a global network of 16 edge locations tuned for high availability and high performance. " Route 53 will cost $1 a month per zone and 50 cents per million queries for the first billion queries a month.
Cloud computing market: $241 billion in 2020. IBM Launches Pair of Tools for Public and Private Clouds. News IBM Launches Pair of Tools for Public and Private Clouds IBM accelerated its cloud push on Thursday, when it announced the launch of SmartCloud, a product designed to enhance IBM's public cloud infrastructure services, and Workload Deployer, a new private cloud solution.
According to IBM, its new SmartCloud offering will provide enhanced capabilities over its existing public cloud service, which was primarily intended for testing and development. SmartCloud is designed to step up the kind of systems and applications that can run in the IBM cloud. "Now we have new options in terms of being able to run more complex production workloads, being able to do management of those applications and workloads for clients," said Ric Telford, IBM's vice president of global cloud services. IBM is rolling out two versions of the SmartCloud service: Enterprise and Enterprise +. "You define the pattern that makes up the application. "This is a cloud rush. About the Author. VMware introduces Cloud Foundry to developers. (Page 1 of 2)VMware yesterday released an open-source platform-as-a-service environment, called Cloud Foundry, built to host multiple languages and frameworks in an open stack of application software that can run both inside and outside of the firewall.
Jerry Chen, senior director of cloud and application services at VMware, said that Cloud Foundry offers features that aren't available in other platform-as-a-service offerings: specifically, VMware's offering will expand to include numerous languages and frameworks, rather than tie developers to a single set of software tools. Chen also said existing PaaS offerings are not deployable behind firewalls, and none are yet open source. “Platform-as-a-service is emerging as a category to solve these [new] problems. In a reaction to what we've seen for the past 18 months, VMware has been working to create this open PaaS solution,” said Chen.
At the heart of Cloud Foundry is support for the Spring framework. Private cloud discredited, part 1. Back in January, I made a controversial prediction that private clouds will be discredited by year end. Now, in the eleventh month of the year, the cavalry has arrived to support my prediction, in the form of a white paper published by a most unlikely ally, Microsoft. Titled simply The Economics of the Cloud (PDF), the document succinctly sets out the economic factors that make the public cloud model an inexorable inevitability, substantiating my long-held views. It deserves a full reading — don't settle for the overview in the authors' blog post announcing it. Here are some headline numbers that should give pause for thought: 80% lower TCO. Since I know there's a subset of ZDNet readers who will leap into Talkback to cry wolf on cloud security without bothering to read either the rest of this blog post or even looking at the white paper, here's what it has to say on that particular canard: Some readers may be wondering why I wrote 'part 1' in the title of this post.
Private cloud discredited, part 2. I wrote part 1 of this post last October, highlighting a Microsoft white paper that convincingly established the economic case for multi-tenant, public clouds over single-enterprise, private infrastructures. Part 2 would wait, I wrote then, for "the other shoe still waiting to drop ... a complete rebuttal of all the arguments over security, reliability and control that are made to justify private cloud initiatives.
The dreadful fragility and brittleness of the private cloud model has yet to be fully exposed. " The other shoe dropped last month, and from an unexpected direction. Rather than an analyst survey or research finding, it came in a firestorm of tweets and two blog posts by a pair of respected enterprise IT folk. "The subsequent resignation of my self imposed title of President of The Private Cloud was really nothing more than a frustrated exhalation of four years of hard work (yes, it took us that long to build our private cloud). " Too risky? Then he adds his killer punch: Big Consulting Missing the Cloud Computing and SOA Links - Where SOA Meets Cloud. Consulting is a funny business. You have to remain relevant, so you have a tendency to follow the hype and follow the crowd. Cloud computing is the next instance of that, and many of the larger consulting organizations is chasing cloud computing as fast as they can.
However, many are not chasing cloud computing the right way, missing many of the architectural advantages. Instead they are just tossing things out of the enterprise onto private and public clouds and hoping for the best. Making things worse, many in larger enterprise clients are not seeing the forest through the trees, or in this case the architecture through the clouds. So, you have both parties taking a reactive versus a proactive approach to the cloud. Missing is good architectural context supporting the use of cloud computing.
The concept of SOA, as related to cloud computing is simple. We need to get good at this quick, else cloud computing will do little good.
Hey big consultants: isn't there architecture behind that cloud? As mentioned in previous posts, Dave Linthicum, author of Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise, has been beating the drums for augmenting cloud implementations with the methodologies, management and governance practices we’ve picked up for service oriented architecture. Dave comes out swinging again, observing that the big IT consulting combines are missing out on this connection entirely: "Many are not chasing cloud computing the right way, missing many of the architectural advantages. Instead they are just tossing things out of the enterprise onto private and public clouds and hoping for the best....
Missing is good architectural context supporting the use of cloud computing. We've been struggling, sweating, debating, and learning for almost a decade to get SOA right. US federal government: cloud first, but 'cloud' needs to be defined.