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...]
What is Multitenancy?
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...]
Strategic Benefits of “as-a-service” with Hybrid Cloud
To maximize the benefits of hybrid cloud infrastructures, we can consider the as-a-service services of specialized providers for the management of these mostly highly complex IT infrastructures. By leveraging cloud infrastructures, organizations save costs, become more agile, and drive innovation faster. This is also shown by various surveys. Many of the IT decision-makers see it as a prerequisite … [Read more...]
How to Scale Automating Operations for your Business
Automation solutions are gaining attraction in a wide variety of industries. Many companies rely on automation tools (such as process automation) to relieve employees of time-consuming tasks. The disadvantages force to scale such solutions. The appropriate tools have the potential to solve challenges in process automation, reduce costs and increase efficiency in the departments from finance and … [Read more...]
What Apache Kafka Can Do?
In increasingly complex application landscapes, the handling of data flows is becoming increasingly difficult. Read how Apache Kafka big data technology can help. Linking data from different systems is at the top of the to-do list in application handling. There are many solutions for this, each with advantages and disadvantages. Apache Kafka promises to solve the problem in the way that users have … [Read more...]
What is Scalability in Cloud Computing?
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...]
What is a Cloudlet in Cloud Computing?
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...]
What is Semi-Structured Data?
Semi-structured data is the name given in database research (informatics) to information which is not subject to a general structure, but which carry with it part of the structural information. While structured data retention must be based on a database model that contains the appearance of the data elements (objects), semi-structured data lacks one. Semi-structured data does not need to be … [Read more...]
Is Virtualization a Prerequisite for the Cloud?
Virtualization is repeatedly in this website mentioned as the basic technology for cloud computing, but it is not a prerequisite for cloud computing. Distributing hardware resources to virtual machines is one of several possible strategies to achieve multi-tenancy. With software as a service, in particular, large players show that virtualization is not a prerequisite for the provision of cloud … [Read more...]
What is Autonomic Computing?
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...]
How to Take the Advantages of Cloud Computing
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...]
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