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| Cloud Computing Technology with BPOS and Windows Azure |
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| by Nidhi Bansal | |
| We see cloud computing offerings today that are suitable to host enterprise architectures. But while these offerings provide clear benefits to corporations by providing capabilities complementary to what they have, the fact that they can help to elastically scale enterprise architectures should not be understood to also mean that simply scaling in this way will meet twenty-first-century computing requirements. | |
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| Putting Data-as-a-Service to Work Improving Data Quality |
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| How StrikeIron Enables DaaS Best Practices | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| With all the concern around data security in the cloud, another facet of data –its quality – often gets overlooked. Yet, if inaccurate data is being stored, then what’s the point? As the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out. This story covers how DaaS can improve data quality, especially with customer records. | |
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| Is Force.com Your Key to the Cloud Kingdom? |
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| The reality of salesforce.com as seen through the eyes of a partner | |
| by Alok Misra & Ian Gotts | |
| In this article, we provide a high-level introduction to the reality and misconceptions around salesforce.com and its work culture, as seen through the eyes of a partner. The article is extracted from our recent book, “Thinking of … Force.com as your key to the Cloud Kingdom? Ask the Smart Questions,” which also features a Foreword from Parker Harris, co-founder of salesforce.com. | |
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| Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: This Time It's Come to PaaS |
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| by Rajesh Ramchandani | |
| This article explores enterprise Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) requirements. | |
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| Could Data Sprawl in the Cloud Cost You Your Job? |
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| by Jeff Vance | |
| Despite the numerous cost-savings and productivity-boosting opportunities cloud computing presents, many organizations are struggling to take full advantage of them. Yet, CIOs face constant pressure to adopt new technologies in order to cut costs. As companies try to trim costs using the cloud, new data challenges emerge, and CIOs must cope with additional pressure from the rest of the organization. Without new data integration tools, CIOs risk losing control over the information they rely on, putting their very jobs in peril. | |
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| Application Platforms: The Next CloudBattleground? |
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| A look at the forces behind the unleashing of more application development and deployment | |
| by Vince Vasquez | |
| Seems like every great battle has a good guy, a bad guy, and perhaps an even uglier monster of a thing to contend with. If you’ve ever opened a new server box, and hours later found yourself at wits’ end searching through manuals trying to figure out why the heck the thing won’t boot properly, you’ve faced ugly head-on. This article discusses the forces at play in the rise of Platform-as-a-Service offerings. | |
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| SOASTA on Amazon: Game Changing Performance Testing |
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| by Vince Vasquez | |
| In a very real way, SOASTA and Amazon grew up together: SOASTA with its game-changing performance testing application CloudTest, and Amazon with its game-changing Cloud Computing environment EC2. Together, they are helping companies like Intuit answer the crucial question of whether their Web sites can withstand huge increases in traffic, and generate the information necessary to optimize their architecture and implementation. | |
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| SOASTA on Amazon: Game Changing Performance Testing |
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| by Vince Vasquez | |
| In a very real way, SOASTA and Amazon grew up together: SOASTA with its game-changing performance testing application CloudTest, and Amazon with its game-changing Cloud Computing environment EC2. Together, they are helping companies like Intuit answer the crucial question of whether their Web sites can withstand huge increases in traffic, and generate the information necessary to optimize their architecture and implementation. | |
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Newvem Is Proud to Announce the Release of General Availability!!!  |
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| November 15 2012 |
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| Newvem GA completely disrupts the belief that cloud usage analytics ends with cost savings. A major component of the GA is connecting cloud usage with specific business activities and entities such as business divisions, accounts, and even customers. Newvem now offers better visibility into the relationship between business and cloud infrastructure, thus helping our customers focus on profit. |
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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| Test driving Apache Hadoop: Standalone & pseudo-distributed mode |
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| July 07 2012 |
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| Getting your arms around Apache Hadoop and getting started. |
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| CloudSwing-Flexible PaaS (Sample Application Deployment Demo) |
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| December 12 2011 |
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| CloudSwing is a Cloud within a Cloud; Its a PaaS available as a SaaS :-) Bit complicated as we hear it but extremely easy when we really understand it.
Its a Completely Flexible PaaS solution with a pre-build templates for various stacks.
Available Platforms:
Rails
Java (Tomcat)
PHP (LAMP)
NginX
JavaScript (NodeJs)
Ubuntu
Centos (Roadmap)
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| What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)? |
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| November 21 2011 |
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| What exactly Service models mean? In plain English, Models which provides “Services”. We get Electricity as a service in our daily routine and we pay for what we use right?
Similarly we get “Services” from the Cloud Service Providers in different forms.
Service models are also known as SPI Model:
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
So, let’s talk about Platform as a Service, commonly known as PaaS in the Cloud World. |
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| The Cloud Lock-In (Part 2): The Great Lock-In of PaaS |
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| September 14 2011 |
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| PaaS is evolving to become the masterful approach towards “cloud software development”. When approaching PaaS, the IT organization should take in mind that there is a reasonable risk that it will quickly be tied to a single programming platform and will not be able to move its applications and data between vendors (PaaS or IaaS). One of the main key points for this discussion is the IaaS portability capability. Let’s first define these two types of a PaaS vendor:
1 - Public PaaS: The public PaaS vendor offering includes the hosting platform. The IaaS layer isn’t exposed to the PaaS customer. The customer doesn’t control the IaaS layer at all and the IaaS portability is limited only to the IaaS platforms which the PaaS vendor supports.
2 - Private PaaS: The private PaaS vendor delivers only the wrapper layer that enables the application deployment over an IaaS. The customer has full control over the IaaS including its portability.
Read Part 1 - http://www.iamondemand.com/post/9039434445/the-cloud-lock-in-part-1-public-iaas-is-great
Read More on IAmOnDemand.com |
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| Plan Your PaaS Strategy: Few First Steps |
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| July 12 2011 |
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| According to Gartner’s PaaS Road Map report, cloud-based solutions will grow at a faster rate than on-premises solutions. By 2015, 50% of all ISVs will be SaaS providers. Most enterprises will hold major part of their business applications running on the cloud computing infrastructure, using PaaS and SaaS technologies directly or indirectly. |
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| 'Engineering Cloud' Promises To Modernize Manufacturing |
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| June 22 2011 |
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| Fujitsu's specialized cloud computing platform combines on-demand computer-aided design and analytics software with a thin-client environment to offer manufacturers additional product design and production power at an economical entry cost. |
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| What to Look for in a Cloud Gateway – Part 2 |
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| April 12 2011 |
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| The first post in this two part series, Now Everybody Wants a Cloud Gateway, explored why more and more enterprises and technology vendors are making the adoption of a cloud gateway a top priority. This post focuses on the capabilities that all stakeholders should look for. |
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| Now Everybody Wants a Cloud Gateway – Part 1 |
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| March 30 2011 |
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| In our discussions with industry insiders, we're hearing more and more about the need for a cloud gateway - technology that provides a bridge between an organization's internal environment and one or more public clouds. It's a message we're also hearing with growing frequency from enterprise customers and potential partners alike as their cloud architectures mature. In the first post of this series, focuses on what's behind this trend, and why different stakeholders are making the cloud gateway a top priority. |
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| Force.com sheds the proprietary tag...almost |
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| December 08 2010 |
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| Force.com for all the accolades still carried the tag of being proprietary, built around a proprietary technology Apex and proprietary database. Salesforce.com shed part of stigma with the announcement of VMForce last year, opening up the platform for Java Developers albeit just the Spring faction. Today they took another big step when they announced the acquisition of Heroku, the leading Ruby on Rails Platform. |
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| Is Force.com Your Key to the Cloud? |
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| September 25 2010 |
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| Before you start questioning whether the application can be developed in Force.com you need to figure out if you will survive a move to the Cloud. The worst thing you can do is to spend a year's worth of time and money and then dump the entire effort. |
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Medical Foods Sample Inventory Management |
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| September 01 2010 |
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| Nutricia, a unit of global food player Danone, has grown rapidly in recent years by developing and selling specialized nutritional products. Key to the their sales team’s success has been delivery of over 3,000 product samples to doctors and other health care professionals (HCPs) each month.
Yet Nutricia lacked a centralized way to track which HCPs received which samples from which salesperson. This meant the company was not capable of properly executing product recalls – putting them at significant federal regulatory risk.
Aptaria built a custom Salesforce application in the Cloud for Nutricia that provides full visibility into its product sample inventory. The solution enables sales reps to:
o Track and manage samples through a personal inventory captured in Salesforce.
o Accept samples into their inventory with a single click upon arrival from the Nutricia warehouse.
o Identify samples delivered to doctors and other HCPs without re-keying information.
To ensure seamless integration with Nutricia’s existing CRM, Aptaria built the application 100% on Force.com, Salesforce’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering. |
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| The Evolution of Platform-as-a-Service and Microsoft Azure |
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| August 03 2010 |
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| I spoke with Microsoft's Matt Thompson about the evolution of Platform-as-a-Service and Microsoft's cloud strategy. Matt explained what is exactly meant by Microsoft's "Services plus Software" and Steve Ballmer's "We are all the in cloud" messages. He shared valuable information about current and future product-line strategies and roadmaps and how they align with Microsoft's overall cloud vision. |
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| Choosing the Right Cloud Platform |
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| July 26 2010 |
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| The emergence of a number of self-proclaimed "open" cloud platforms presents any would-be cloud adopter with a confusing plethora of choices. For cloud adopters all these offerings, in various ways, hold out the promise of pursuing a hybrid strategy. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to adopt a cloud platform that, at the same time as having all that cloud goodness, allows you to move your applications somewhere else should you want. |
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| Performance and Scale In Cloud Computing |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper discusses both the theory behind designing applications for scaling and performance and the practical implications of architectural decisions. Special attention is paid to the focus that cloud computing has placed on horizontal scale, and the implications that may have on application performance. |
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| Data-as-a-Service: The Data Fabric for Clouds |
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| May 19 2010 |
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| Never before has data storage and retrieval been more at the forefront of what's new and exciting in technology, and it's long overdue for a major update. Consider, how much have filesystems or rational databases really changed over the last two decades? Web 2.0 has introduced a whole class of massively distributed, socially spread applications which impose unprecedented volumes on data storage systems. |
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| NASA's Nebula Rolls Out in the Cloud |
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| March 25 2010 |
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| Agencies across the federal government are exploring cloud computing, but NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform could become the model for its use. The Chief Information Officer at NASA Ames Research Center, explains the benefits of the Nebula platform. |
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| Don't Pass on PaaS in 2010 |
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| February 22 2010 |
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| There is no question that enterprises today are looking to the clouds to create efficiencies, gain competitive advantage and realize significant cost savings. Where the debate often emerges is around the cloud approach selected and employed - namely, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS). While IaaS solutions are interesting, they fail to fully deliver on the scalability, elasticity and cost improvements enterprises seek to gain by moving applications to the cloud. This is due to the fact that the tru costs of delivering applications and services in a cloud environment relate not to the racking and stacking of infrastructure, but rather to the development, deployment and management of applications - and only PaaS solutions can address these costs. Here is a look at what exactly a platform-oriented cloud solution provides. |
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| Graduating Cloud to the Enterprise: Platform-as-a-Service |
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| January 25 2010 |
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| Platform-as-a-Service vendors have mushroomed across the world claiming their platform will rid companies of all the band-aid ridden applications onto a common platform. Companies after wetting their feet look for some answers. |
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| Making Money in the App Economy - Zuora Billing & Payment Solutions |
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| December 11 2010 |
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| Are you a developer, ISV, or enterprise building apps? Cloud Computing platforms makes it easy for anyone to build an app, but monetizing your app for subscription is hard. The CEO and co-founder of Zuora and former chief strategy officer at salesforce.com, Tien Tzuo, sares the challenges that developers, ISVs, and enterprises face when moving to the cloud and the strategies that must be deployed to make money in today's app economy. |
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| GenieDB is Powered by Oracle's BerkeleyDB Database |
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| November 03 2010 |
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| GenieDB's Immediate consistency technology enables total NoSQL + SQL interaoperability for the first time. Scale-out in the cloud without rewriting your app. |
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| Introducing Informatica Cloud |
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| October 25 2010 |
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| Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica Chairmen and CEO, and Juan Carlos Soto, Informatica SVP and GM, provide an overview of the Informatica cloud. |
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| Data Integration in the Cloud |
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| October 25 2010 |
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| Sohaib Abbasi, Informatica Chairmen and CEO, and Juan Carlos Soto, Informatica SVP and GM, offer insights into data integration in the cloud. |
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| Making Apps, Not Just Applications |
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| September 22 2010 |
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| The current mobile space has shown the efficiency of having smaller "apps", rather than full-blown "applications", that narrow down to just one feature, or workflow. This contrasts with more traditional application development that tends to want to do more. RedMonk sits down with one of their clients, the CEO of WaveMaker, to discuss this concept and how WaveMaker is seeing it play out in their user-base. |
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| An Introduction to Heroku |
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| June 24 2010 |
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| Heroku Co-Founder, James Lindenbaum, introduces us to Heroku, and Heroku's focus as an application platform. |
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| Cloud Abstractions |
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| June 24 2010 |
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| James Lindenbaum, CEO and Co-Founder of Heroku, discusses various distractions at play in the Cloud Computing market, including platform abstraction. |
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| Heroku Developer Example |
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| June 24 2010 |
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| Heroku Co-Founder, James Lindenbaum, provides an example of how a developer can utilize Heroku's application platform. |
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| Game Changing Performance Testing of Web Based Applications |
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| June 14 2010 |
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| SOASTA CEO and Founder Tom Lounibos discusses how SOASTA leverages cloud computing to change the game in performance testing of web based applications |
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| SOASTA on Amazon EC2 |
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| June 14 2010 |
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| SOASTA CEO and Founder Tom Lounibos discusses how SOASTA leverages Amazon EC2 |
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| Cloud: It's all about the Service |
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| September 07 2012 |
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| Thanks to the emergence of cloud computing, it's no longer possible for IT departments to be just a builder and manager of technology; you must also now be a broker of IT services across the enterprise. Consequently, you need to design an IT environment that offers the flexibility, efficiency, and security to meet these expectations and aligns services with business needs. |
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Medical Foods Sample Inventory Management |
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| September 01 2010 |
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| Nutricia, a unit of global food player Danone, has grown rapidly in recent years by developing and selling specialized nutritional products. Key to the their sales team’s success has been delivery of over 3,000 product samples to doctors and other health care professionals (HCPs) each month.
Yet Nutricia lacked a centralized way to track which HCPs received which samples from which salesperson. This meant the company was not capable of properly executing product recalls – putting them at significant federal regulatory risk.
Aptaria built a custom Salesforce application in the Cloud for Nutricia that provides full visibility into its product sample inventory. The solution enables sales reps to:
o Track and manage samples through a personal inventory captured in Salesforce.
o Accept samples into their inventory with a single click upon arrival from the Nutricia warehouse.
o Identify samples delivered to doctors and other HCPs without re-keying information.
To ensure seamless integration with Nutricia’s existing CRM, Aptaria built the application 100% on Force.com, Salesforce’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering. |
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| Performance and Scale In Cloud Computing |
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| July 22 2010 |
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| This paper discusses both the theory behind designing applications for scaling and performance and the practical implications of architectural decisions. Special attention is paid to the focus that cloud computing has placed on horizontal scale, and the implications that may have on application performance. |
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GenieDB Technology Overview White Paper |
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| January 02 2010 |
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| Over the past few years, "scaling" and "availability" have come to vie with "cutting costs" and "delivering new features" as major headaches for the CTOs of online businesses. With Moore's Law starting to lose steam, existing applications can no longer be scaled by simply buying faster hardware each year; instead, scaling an application has become an exercise in rebuilding it to utilize techniques such as sharding or non-SQL databases, while struggling to keep the existing live system going despite rising load, before users start leaving in frustration.
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Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms |
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| June 24 2009 |
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| Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility
By Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic |
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| On-Premise to On-Demand: The Dos and Don'ts of the Transition to Cloud Computing |
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| November 01 2008 |
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| This whitepaper provides, for the first time, the Dos and Don'ts of making the transition to cloud computing using salesforce.com's Force.com Platform-as-a-Service. It establishes why traditional ISVs with On-Premise software products need to approach their move to the Cloud model as a transformation of their business, as opposed to a technical product migration exercise. It highlights the challenges ISVs face, and examines the most common missteps during various stages and areas of this transformation. The whitepaper also provides strategies for success, including advice from companies such as Thomson-Reuters, CODA and Intralinks that have already been down that road as well as top Cloud experts from Navatar Group and Deloitte Consulting. |
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| VMware's Cloud Foundry must deliver on openness pledges |
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| April 14 2011 - ZDNet | ||||
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| Netmagic develops cloud computing platform with VMware and Cisco |
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| April 05 2011 - InformationWeek | ||||
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| Flexiant Showcase Extility at Cloud Connect in California |
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| March 07 2011 - PRWeb | ||||
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| Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud's Elasticity is Enhanced by Chicago-based Paraleap Technologies |
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| January 27 2011 - PRWeb | ||||
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| CumuLogic Bringing Sun Cloud Roots to Java PaaS |
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| January 20 2011 - GigaOm | ||||
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| Flash video gets a cloud option through Amazon |
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| December 15 2010 - cnet News | ||||
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| Top 10 Cloud Computing Services for 2010 |
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| December 15 2010 - ReadWrite Cloud | ||||
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| Salesforce unveils Cloud 2 vision, services |
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| December 08 2010 - InformationWeek | ||||
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| Salesforce acquires Heroku ramps up platform-as-a-service offering |
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| December 08 2010 - International Business Times | ||||
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