The central success factor of a model is easy to name. It must provide as many answers as possible to questions in the area for which it was created. Sounds trivial, but is often not easy to implement. Models should provide answers. However, it becomes particularly complex if not only a domain such as classic Business Process Management (BPM) is to be considered, but also related topics such as … [Read more...]

The Hybrid Cloud combines the benefits of private and public cloud. However, their management requires more effort and specific tools. Many companies help the organizations to launch and operate hybrid clouds, optimize network components, and use other technologies. Crises are catalysts for technological developments. This year, digitalization has received a huge boost in one fell swoop. The world … [Read more...]

A File Hosting Service is an online service of file storage system which allows the users to store their files (which are static content, mostly large files, and are not web pages) over the Internet or a corporate network on a central data store and access them via a client or web browser. Most of the cloud storage services allows to host web pages, for example Rackspace Cloud Files, IBM Cloud and … [Read more...]

Multitenancy is a software architecture principle in which a single instance of the application runs on the server, but multiple clients or organizations (fork or instance) are being served. This model differs from multi-instance architectures where each organization or client has its own installed instance of the application. With a multi-tenant architecture, your application can virtually … [Read more...]

Scalability describes the ability of a system to grow in magnitude. Although the word scalability does not exist in the dictionary of the SAR the closest scalable adjective is of little use in telecommunications and computer engineering. Scalability, is the desirable property of a system, network or process, indicating the ability to react and adapt without losing quality, or manage the continuous … [Read more...]

A cloudlet is a small-scale data centre located at the edge of the Internet to provide computing resources to mobile applications with lower latency. It is a newer architectural element of cloud computing infrastructure of a 3-tier hierarchy: mobile device or IoT hardware, cloudlet, cloud. The cloudlet concept is also known as mobile micro-cloud. The term was first suggested by Satyanarayanan as … [Read more...]

Autonomic Computing is an initiative to provide computers with the tools they need to self-manage without human intervention. The idea was initially launched by IBM in the year 2001, now it has been taken over by many other companies, including HP and Microsoft. The initiative also involved academia, with the establishment of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing. The … [Read more...]

On-premise installation or cloud? Here you can read how your company can realize the advantages of cloud computing and still keep all data, information and workloads under your control, as with an on-premises installation. Companies will no longer have a competitive advantage in the future if they invest in information technology. IT will simply be an infrastructure technology from the socket - … [Read more...]