Articles on Cloud Computing Software Development
This article describes how through leveraging mature open standards, you can create open and interoperable clouds. It demonstrates the use of the major contemporary innovative cloud interface specifications to realize an open standards-based, interoperable, cloud offering. This article demonstrates that currently available features in various cloud standards are enough to …
In this interview of Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, Senior VP in charge of Windows Azure, he discusses how Windows Azure has always been focused on Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and how it is going to evolve over the next 12 months. Microsoft wants to take some of these concepts that are hard to learn …
The SQL Azure Reporting CTP gives developers a familiar paradigm for developing and distributing reports – except that no one has to worry about the infrastructure to host it. This article demonstrates with a simple example that uses data from performance counters captured as part of the diagnostics for a …
This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource, a subsidiary of VMware, CTO Adrian Colyer. He discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally and Cloud Foundry which surprisingly is written in Ruby.
Identity management in the cloud is especially difficult because of the cross-cutting nature of identity and its impact across architectural and organizational domains. Many businesses fear that using the cloud exposes them to possible attacks and data breaches are not equipped to manage identities at enterprise-scale and in the cloud. …
To solve the question of the choice between Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure, GigaOM proposes a debate between two companies that use these two competing suppliers of Cloud computing services.
There isn’t yet a lot of support for a cloud-deployed search solution, but with Windows Azure, Lucene.Net and a bit of OpenXML, just about any searching requirements can be met. This article suggests a sample implementation to search Windows Azure Storage with Lucene.Net.
This articles presents the results of a survey of organizations with experience using cloud applications and platforms.
