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The Need for an Event-based API in the Cloud
Many cloud applications, especially resource management can benefit from event-based approaches. In his new post, William Vambenepe discusses approaches to defining cloud eventing APIs.
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Real Time Web And Cloud Management Standards
William Vambenepe comments on the absence of “real time” features in existing cloud management solutions and proposes the desirable properties that define such solutions. Dare Obasanjo examines implementations of the real time web available today and provides a detailed explanation of the technologies such services use. Is the real time web a grassroots solution to cloud management standards?
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Azure Drive Eases the Migration to Microsoft’s Cloud
Initially announced as XDrive during PDC 2009, Microsoft has released the beta version of Windows Azure Drive, a storage access solution simplifying the migration of Windows applications to the cloud by creating an NTFS virtual drive on top of a storage blob.
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Sun's Kenai to Close in 60 Days and Work Halted on Darkstar but Hudson Survives
Whilst many of Sun's software projects have survived the Oracle acquisition, details are continuing to emerge of projects that are being closed down. Amongst them are Sun's cloud project and Kenai, its source code repository. Work is also being stopped on project Darkstar, the Java based MMOG platform developed by Sun labs, though the code for this is open source and should remain available.
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Perspectives on the Conclusion of the Oracle - Sun Acquisition
After almost nine months of speculation and delay, Oracle has got the green light from EU which has lead to the completion of Sun’s acquisition. The announcement was followed by an all-day event were Oracle presented its future plans for the Sun technologies and platforms.
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What Is More Important: Run-time or Design-time SOA Governance?
The importance of SOA governance still remains the question of heated debate. The new spin on this is introduced by merging SOA with cloud computing. Several recent posts discuss this issue stressing the importance of governance, but shifting its focus from design-time to run-time
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Windows Domain to Amazon EC2 Single Sign-On Access Solutions
David Chappell, the Principal of Chappell & Associates, US, has written a whitepaper proposing several solutions for Single Sign-on (SSO) access to applications deployed on Amazon EC2 from a Windows domain. InfoQ explored these solutions to understand what the benefits and tradeoffs each one presented.
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Advice for Securing Data in Windows Azure
In a recent MSDN article entitled Crypto Services and Data Security in Windows Azure, Jonathan Wiggs provides advice on securing data stored and processed through Windows Azure. InfoQ explored the topic in more detail to understand some of the security ramifications which come with deploying an application to the cloud.
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A Step Toward Better Cloud Security: Searchable Encryption
In a whitepaper entitled Cryptographic Cloud Storage, Seny Kamara and Kristin Lauter from the Microsoft Research Cryptography Group, propose a "virtual private storage service" offered by public clouds using new cryptographic techniques.
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Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that their instances are suffering poor performance, as the result of high internal network latency. This has led to speculations that Amazon's Cloud might be getting oversubscribed.
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Azure Feature Voting Results
While voting is still open, there are some clear front-runners for the most needed features. The vote is being run by Mike Wickstrand, Senior Director of Product Planning for Windows Azure, and hosted at www.MyGreatWindowsAzureIdea.com. Of the top 6 items, there are four requests for making Azure cheaper in various scenarios, a request for .NET 4.0 support, and the need for sending email.
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Azure Storage Options
The Windows Azure Platform offers a wide range of storage options for unstructured, structured, and message style data. Deciding which option to use can be quite daunting, especially with the limitations of this new technology being so uncertain. This piece enumerates the storage options and discusses their basic capabilities and limitations relative to the other options available on the platform.
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Amazon RDS: MySQL Database as a Cloud Service
Amazon recently added a new MySQL database offering to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform named Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). InfoQ explores the benefits and shortcomings of this new service, how it compares to running a local MySQL database, maintenance and replication, the 4-hour weekly downtime window requirement, availability zones, and future plans.
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Free and Reduced Price Windows Azure Packages
In order to spur adoption, Microsoft is offering free and reduced price packages for Windows Azure. All of these packages are available from February 1st thru June 30th, with January free to everyone using the North America data centers.
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Ruby on Rails Is Compatible with Microsoft Azure
Microsoft has opened Windows Azure to many other non-MS technologies in an attempt to lure companies and developers to deploy their applications on the Azure cloud rather than on their competition’s. One such technology is Ruby on Rails.