Application management

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 480 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Enumeration of PaaS container types

What do we need from an on-demand application platform for enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container types on which you can...

0 replies - 564 views - 11/10/09 by vambenepe in News

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 - 877 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 - 689 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on VMWare, SpringSource and PaaS

I am late to the party for  commenting on the upstream and downstream acquisitions involving SpringSource. I was away on vacations, but Rod Johnson obviously...

0 replies - 914 views - 08/27/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 2: configuration management)

What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data center and in Clouds)?

0 replies - 756 views - 07/28/09 by vambenepe in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 719 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1126 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

Exploring IT management in a changing IT world

The tagline for this blog is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...

0 replies - 1012 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News