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Latest featured content about Cloud Computing

Cloud Foundry: Inside the Machine

Topics
Messaging,
Cloud Foundry,
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
Web Services,
SOA,
Enterprise Architecture,
VMWare,
SpringOne,
PaaS,
Cloud Computing,
Companies,
Conferences,
Architecture,
SpringSource Application Platform

Derek Collison presents Cloud Foundry’s architecture with details on the Cloud Controller, the Service Provisioning Agent, the Droplet Execution Agent, and the Messaging System.

News about Cloud Computing

Continuous Integration evolution on the Cloud

Topics
Continuous Integration,
SaaS,
Agile Techniques,
Cloud Computing,
Agile

Travis CI, a cloud-based continuous integration (CI) offering for open source projects on Github, has revealed future plans for supporting private builds which could help enterprises leverage the benefits of continuous integration without the build machines and test environment maintenance overhead (either in-house or in the cloud).

Economics of AWS Application Hosting

Topics
Amazon Web Services,
Amazon,
IaaS,
Companies,
Cloud Computing

With the recent advances in cloud computing and Amazon Web Services infrastructure, many companies are trying to abandon their IT shops and move their software to the cloud. In his new blog post, Charlie Oppenheimer discusses the economics of cloud computing, comparing it with traditional data centers.

Articles about Cloud Computing

Software Engineering Meets Services and Cloud Computing

Topics
Cloud Security,
SOA,
Cloud Adoption,
Architecture,
Security,
SOA Adoption,
Enterprise Architecture,
Cloud Computing

In this IEEE article, authors Stephen Yau and Ho An talk about application development using service-oriented architecture and cloud computing technologies. They also discuss application development challenges like security in a multi-tenant environment, quality-of-service monitoring, and mobile computing.

Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing: Rethinking web application architectures for the cloud

Topics
Cloud Security,
Web Applications,
Cloud Computing,
Security

Not all data is sensitive and hence an equal and balanced investment in securing all data categories is not justified. This article presents an architecture that leverages cloud-computing, cloud-storage and enterprise key-management Infrastructure(EKMI) to lower costs while complying to data-security regulations.

Presentations about Cloud Computing

Running Heroku on Heroku

Topics
Heroku,
Operations,
PaaS,
Infrastructure,
Cloud Computing

Noah Zoschke discusses self-hosting, bootstrapping, cross-compiling, avoiding circular dependencies, distributed process management, all in the context of running Heroku support apps on Heroku.

Tuning Java for Virtual with EM4J

Topics
Spring,
Dependency Injection,
SpringSource,
Java,
Design Pattern,
VMWare,
Languages,
Websphere,
Patterns,
Design,
Object Oriented Design,
Companies,
Programming,
SpringOne 2GX 2011,
Virtualization,
IBM,
Application Servers,
Agile in the Enterprise,
SpringOne,
IaaS,
Infrastructure,
Agile,
Spring EM4J,
Memory,
Cloud Computing,
Conferences

Ben Corrie explains how Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) helps managing memory for Java installations in virtual settings.

Interviews about Cloud Computing

Gil Tene Discusses Garbage Collection, the OpenJDK and the JCP

Topics
Azul Zing,
GarbageCollection,
Azul,
JVM,
Virtual Machines,
Runtimes,
Java,
Websphere,
Languages,
Programming,
Application Servers,
IBM,
Virtualization,
QCon San Francisco 2011,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Companies,
Infrastructure,
IaaS,
QCon,
Performance & Scalability,
Managed Runtime Initiative,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Conferences

Gil Tene talks to Charles Humble about different garbage collection techniques, and specific collectors including Azul's C4, IBM's Balanced GC, and Oracle's Garbage First, before moving on to discuss both the JCP and OpenJDK.

Paul Cowan Discusses the Resin Application Server and Cloud

Topics
Java,
Languages,
Websphere,
Programming,
Application Servers,
IBM,
PaaS,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Companies,
Agile,
Cloud Computing,
Resin,
JavaOne2011

In this interview Charles Humble talks to Paul Cowan about the Resin Application Server architecture, capabilities, and where it fits in the Cloud market.