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I have attended a presentation by Simon Guest from Microsoft on their cloud computing architecture. Although there was no new concept or idea introduced, Simon has provided an excellent summary on the major patterns of doing cloud computing. I have to admit that I am not familiar with Azure and this is my first time [...]

Cloud computing is becoming a very hot area as it provides cost savings and time-to-market benefits to a wide spectrum of organizations. At the consumer end, small startup companies found Cloud computing can significantly reduce their initial setup cost. Large enterprises also found Cloud computing allows them to improve resource utilization and cost effectiveness, although they [...]

Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0 The tale of these two Webs is best told once we understand the meaning, importance and the differences between the following key words for each of the two versions of the web: * Communities * Content * Communication *Conversations Communities: Humans are social creature and associating with a [...]

Based on the same architectural pattern of the web, “REST” has a growing dominance of the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation these days. In this article, we will discuss some basic design principles of REST. SOAP : The Remote Procedure Call Model Before the REST become a dominance, most of SOA architecture are built around WS* stack, [...]

“When the going gets tough, tough gets going”. But the fact is tougher time ask for smarter and prudent strategies. Is shedding extra fat all what a can bulky corporate can rely on this time of recession? Is it due time to think beyond it?  As most economist believe that the grilling is over and sooner or [...]

I recently attended an Innovation games ™ class held by Luke Hohmann of Enthiosys , http://www.enthiosys.com , and during and more so after the class, was struck by the power of “conversation”. The class itself was focusing on how to harness the various Innovation Games ™ as Luke has described in his book, http://www.innovationgames.com/about/The+Book , [...]

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview Elastic Compute Cloud is an environment provided by Amazon for creating and running Virtual servers. It allows us to make manage a Virtual servers like real machines. For example: It allows us to run and install software of our choice on machine. It provides us flexibility to create as many [...]

The McKinsey & Co. report titled Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing has been causing quite the uproar. Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others have all written pieces quote the report saying “clouds are NOT very cost-effective”. My thoughts on the topic. McKinsey is thinking of cloud = infrastructure (slide #12). I [...]

Gartner report points that we have reached the crescendo (or close to) of the hype cycle around cloud computing. There is a lot that has been written and said about this topic. If you break it down it comes to some fairly common set of words and some jargon. It is possible; people who [...]

Buying knowledge is much cheaper than renting or migrating software.. KaaS doesn’t replace on-premise software, SaaS, or services; think of KaaS as a kind of motor oil that makes the whole ERP machine run faster. By making end users smarter, for a lower price point, KaaS reduces later reliance on overblown SI projects and questionable methodologies.