What Cloud users need to know are legal aspects of the concept, Security and Privacy and Copyright and Licenses. We have answered the most important questions. Cloud computing demands input not only from the IT professionals and users, but also from the lawyers on the planning aspect - is not surprising. But, it is interesting that the legal arguments not primarily serve as limitations of the new … [Read more...]
Web Services : What are Web Services?
Web services are software applications used for machine-to-machine interaction over a network. Each web service has an uniform resource identifier (URI), through which they can be clearly identified, as well as has an interface description in machine readable format (as XML artifact, usually WSDL ) that defines how to interact with the web service. The communication may usually runs on protocols … [Read more...]
Unified Centralized Management of Data with Openfiler
Unified centralized management of data is possible with Openfiler which provides an web based interface for network attached storage and block storage. Openfiler is a free software and licensed under GNU GPL. Previously we have discussed, configured cloud servers to deal with web services, databases, mail and collaboration softwares, in this article we are going describe a system that adds a … [Read more...]
XenServer is Now Open Source : Create Virtual Machines for Free
XenServer allows you to create and manage virtual machines within one or more physical nodes, it is now fully open source like prior to acquisition by Citrix. XenServer is again back to the basics and dusts off heir open source root of origin. In conjunction with the release of the new version 6.2, Citrix Systems makes XenServer and all its extensions available to all, distinguishing between free … [Read more...]
SMS Gateway and Sending SMS Via Email
SMS gateway allows sending and receiving SMS messages via devices other than mobile phones. The method can be explained by OSI Model too. But, entering to OSI Model will be too much technical to be understood by an average user plus really there is no need of knowing how to install the hardware setup. Instead, we will discuss about SMS Gateway for the broader audience, in a digestible manner; even … [Read more...]
Red Hat OpenShift PaaS Out From Beta : Plans and Features
Red Hat OpenShift PaaS is now officially out of their Beta. Obviously our favorite Free Tier of usage is remaining plus you can opt for official paid support. After about two years of beta testing; Red Hat OpenShift, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Red Hat, becomes a commercial product in all respects. In the official announcement itself is Red Hat has notified the availability of the platform … [Read more...]
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) : Detail Article
Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is an architectural pattern of information technology in the field of distributed systems for the services to structure of IT systems. A special role is played by the focus on business processes, their levels of abstraction are the basis for concrete service implementations : Forgive the loan for example, is located at a high level; behind it hides a banking … [Read more...]
Citrix and the domain cloud.com
Citrix acquired the domain cloud.com in July 2011 for a startup based out of Cupertino which later is available as Apache CloudStack. The domain acquiring process itself became a big news at that time. However, the domain remained in the same condition with a blue colored webform. Citrix, Cloud Computing and cloud.com Citrix is known for support and collaboration software, such as … [Read more...]
Xen Switches to Linux Foundation
Xen Switches to Linux Foundation, an agency that will ensure greater development for the project, now away from Citrix including Virtualization software. Xen is a hypervisor project, which is a software that allows to run multiple virtual machines on one physical computer. It originated in University of Cambridge and was under the U.S. company Citrix Systems. Xen switch to Linux … [Read more...]
Performance Tips for Developing Applications for Cloud Platform
Performance Tips for Developing Applications for Cloud means optimizing an application which will run on functionally kind of distributed computing framework. Even if the word or phrase Cloud Computing is touted; the difference of running an application on one server configuration and running on a distributed system where the static files almost always will be delivered geographically from the … [Read more...]
Distributed Computing : Basics
Distributed Computing is a new model for solving massive computational problems using a large number of computers organized in clusters embedded in a distributed telecommunications infrastructure. Previously we published information on Grid Computing, Grid Computing is a type of Distributed computing. Distributed Systems as well as Distributed Computing is defined as a collection of physically … [Read more...]
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