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VMware vCloud Blog: A Big Cloud Challenge: Cross Stack Portability
When you think of portability in cloud computing, you think of how to move applications code, data, and workloads. These are mostly horizontal movements within the same level of software stacks – from one IaaS to another, and from one PaaS to another. There is a more interesting and potentially very important movement that I would describe as “cross stack” portability. Today we don’t see cross stack portability unless we re-write the application, which is not what I cover here (although it could be a good business opportunity for companies to explore). Rather, I am talking about how to move your application built on PaaS to an IaaS vendor or even to a private cloud. The reason I call it cross stack is because the application is moved up or down to a different level in the software stack.
Posted by Ellen Rubin on Dec 15, 2009 at 9:45 AM Before moving an enterprise application to the cloud, you need to be sure that your expectations are realistic and your objectives match what the cloud can deliver. In this post, I’d like to share what we’ve learned from working with our beta customers, from their initial exploration of cloud possibilities to going live with a specific application they’ve migrated to the cloud. The following steps can help guide the thought process when considering a cloud deployment, and provide a starting point for moving forward. 1. Determine your cloud objectives.
Five Things to Do Before Moving to the Cloud
Cloud Security - Secure Website Data in the Cloud
While the advantages of a cloud solution are evident, there are many who also have been quick to point out the fact that there are plenty of security concerns one faces when considering moving to the cloud. Risks Associated with Cloud Computing The debate as to how secure moving applications and data to the cloud is such an area of concern that the topic consumed much of the discussion at the 2009 RSA conference.Data Migration: Challenges of Moving to the Cloud » Data Integration Blogs: ETL, Data Migration, Mashups, etc.
Data Migration: Challenges of Moving to the Cloud (December 24th, 2009) Okay, the cloud seems to become a real trend, so now for many enterprises there’s no question whether to adopt the cloud, but how to do it better. Cloud’s major idea, that attracts many organizations, is the possibility to move their applications out of internal data centers into the cloud, and let cloud providers take care about maintaining the applications.
The promise of moving applications to the cloud can be quickly overshadowed by the inherent risks associated with moving your data and platforms outside of your firewall. At the same time, you take on certain risks throughout the migration process. Once the move is successful, how do you ensure end-to-end performance in all of your applications? The benefits inherent in a cloud-based platform include a reduction in your operational costs and greater flexibility when deploying your applications. Users throughout your organization are likely to resist the change, however, if you cannot ensure the performance of your applications.
Application Performance Management: The Organizational Impact of Running in the Cloud | www.visualnetworksystems.com
May 03, 2012 09:00 AM The technical director for the Wi-Fi Alliance talks about everything from Wi-Fi offload to the Smart Grid space and why Passpoint and Voice-Enterprise are worth watching.
Moving To The Cloud Is Not Cut And Paste - Network Computing
Moving Collaborative Apps from Groupware to the Cloud
Listen to my conversation with Jon Pyke, Founder and CEO of CIMTrek , which provides tools to migrate legacy applications to cloud platforms. In this podcast, learn why some collaborative applications are holding organisations back from adopting the cloud, and find out some of the possible approaches to migrating groupware-based applications to a cloud platform. JP: Well, I’d been spending some time last year writing a book with a couple of colleagues, Peter Fingar and Andy Mulholland. And one of the things — one of the recurring themes that came up when we were doing the research, was that there were so many occasions when people seemed to be assuming that anything to do with the cloud was a green-field site. And I started to question this. I thought, well actually, probably one of the biggest impediments to organizations moving to the cloud is the stuff they’ve already got.
How To Design a Scalable Cloud Application - Cumulus Knowledge | Bluelock
As 2010 came to a close, many people were asking me about how they could move third party applications into the cloud... I'm guessing everyone was exhausting their 2010 budgets and purchasing software for the coming year. At the beginning of 2011 I am now hearing more from in-house developers wanting to know how to move their own first-party applications into the cloud.
Which Apps Should You Move to the Cloud? 5 Guidelines CIO.com
CIO — To most people — especially in August — 'Ocean Services' probably conjures visions of boogie boards, sun umbrellas and bringing the drinks without getting sand in the glass. To Matson Navigation CIO Peter Weis, it means logistics, and the need to gather, analyze and coordinate information so his customers can monitor the location, condition and progress of finished goods in one container on one freighter in the South Pacific, more easily than they'd be able to check on a new phone battery being delivered by FedEx ( FDX ). It's not the kind of information or access the ocean services business has been accustomed to offering. "Shipping is a very traditional industry," Weis says.
Cloud application security issues and considerations
Organizations eager to move their in-house developed applications to the cloud to save money and increase efficiency need to carefully consider how application security changes in a cloud environment, experts say. One of the top cloud application security issues is lack of control over the computing infrastructure. An enterprise moving a legacy application to a cloud computing environment gives up control over the networking infrastructure, including servers, access to logs, incident response and patch management, said Russ McRee, security researcher and manager of incident response at Microsoft Online Services. “You’re giving that over to someone else who’s providing it for you.
Expert Roundtable: 8 Guidelines To Move Your Applications To The Cloud
The first is “phase one” of cloud computing wherein you host your e-mail, website and a few more mature services in the cloud. Whether it’s hosted by Google Apps, Microsoft Exchange or CRM from BatchBlue or InfusionSoft, there are a variety of solutions and services for “in the cloud” computing. This is what many businesses are doing now. But a new era is maturing: the applications you now run on a traditional server are also moving to the cloud. This could be a custom inventory solution, a special customer service application—it could be anything that you now run from a server in your office.The Case Against Cloud Computing, Part One CIO.com
CIO — I've had a series of interesting conversations with people involved in cloud computing who, paradoxically, maintain that cloud computing is—at least today—inappropriate for enterprises. I say paradoxically because each of them works for or represents a large technology company's cloud computing efforts, and one would think their role would motivate them to strongly advocate cloud adoption. So why the tepid enthusiasm? For a couple of them, cloud computing functionality is really not ready for prime time use by enterprises.United States : We’ve ported a number of Windows-based applications to the “cloud”, using both Java and .NET technologies. Some applications port quite easily and are even better than the original as they take advantage of all the cloud has to offer. Data-driven business processes and workflows are perfect examples. Other applications aren’t so easy.
How to Move Applications to the Cloud - Instablogs
Lost in all of the hype surrounding cloud computing is one critical question: how do you get there from here? Sure, you’d like to realize cloud computing’s benefits – operational efficiency, reduced costs, application flexibility – however, you’re probably worried about the problems and costs associated with the transition. Unless you’re a three-person company, migrating to the cloud can be a painful, labor-intensive process that opens you to many new risks. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to. A little foresight and planning go a long way.
How to Migrate to the Cloud: Five Things You Must Know to Do it Right
With a nod to Brian Prince who created the base for this presentation, this is the talk that Ben Henderson and I did at A Lap Around PDC in Nashville, TN in 1/2010.