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...]
What is Cloud Robotics?
Various cloud technologies such as cloud server, cloud storage are used in the field of cloud robotics is a field of robotics to utilize benefits of shared service infrastructure. Thus, the robots get the benefit from powerful computing, storage, and communication capabilities of cloud computing, which can process and share information from the agents (other machines, smart objects, humans,etc.). … [Read more...]
What is Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS)?
Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS) is a model for providing web and mobile app developers with a way to link these applications to cloud storage, analytics services, and/or other features such as user management, the ability to send push notifications, and integration with social media services. These services are provided through the use of custom software development kits (SDKs) and application … [Read more...]
What are the Pros and Cons of DevOps
DevOps is not any specific technology. DevOps is a shift of methodologies, an approach to software development which has been discussed in the series of article Basics of DevOps. Traditionally, development team and the operations team were separate. The development team design the system, build, test, and then deliver it to the operations team. The operations team uses it for work and reports … [Read more...]
What is Elasticity in Cloud Computing
Elasticity in cloud computing is the ability of this cloud to adapt to application needs as quickly as possible. There are several definitions according to the authors, some considering the concepts of scalability and elasticity as identical, others as distinct. The arrival of such distributed systems (see Distributed Calculation) inevitably leads to technical problems that need to be addressed or … [Read more...]
What is Big Data Maturity Model
Big Data is about answering business questions. With in-memory data structures, file based storage systems, and massively parallel processing, today we are able to leverage advantages from data. To dig information from that data, any business need to create a functional model which solves their business problems and get the right technology for analytics. Here is where we need data maturity. … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Challenges in 2020
Companies today see the use of the cloud as the basis for digitization strategies. Overall, however, the challenges of the cloud should not be pushed aside. Cloud computing brings numerous advantages, regardless of their size, that need not be described in detail here. The international providers such as Amazon with AWS, Microsoft with Azure and Google with its cloud address different target … [Read more...]