Infrastructure

Dynamic SOA and BPM

After several years of companies industry-wide combining Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), the results are mixed....

0 replies - 629 views - 11/02/09 by Masoud Kalali in Articles

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 726 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 595 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1179 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

Amazon Web Services

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 2074 views - 11/24/08 by riho in Articles

A Look Inside the JBoss Microcontainer, Part I -- Component Models

Looking at the current state of Java, we can see that POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects) rule the land yet again. Their dominance stretches from enterprise...

26 replies - 15714 views - 10/01/08 by alesj in Articles

Availability Enlightenment

The air in the room was still and slightly cool, some might complain too cool. Sitting near the window, providing light filtered by vertical shades partially...

1 replies - 969 views - 08/20/08 by driveawedge in News

Rapid Application Development for Content-Rich Applications

0 replies - 3298 views - 07/29/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Whitepapers

How to Digitally Sign Downloadable Code for Secure Content Transfer

0 replies - 5002 views - 05/02/08 by Matthew Schmidt in Whitepapers