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Article: @IAmOnDemand View on CloudConnect 2012 |
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July 03 2012 - @IAmOnDemand View on CloudConnect 2012
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Last week I attended one of the most popular cloud technology conferences in the world – CloudConnect. The CloudConnect conference started about four years ago. Attending the event gave me a clear understanding of the market maturity and evolution rhythm. Check out the following sections for the main points on what I learned:
1 - Cloud Performance is important
2 - That DevOps doesn’t exist
3 - The Openness of Cloud - You must be open in order to be in the cloud
4 - That“Amazon is Princess White”
5 - The the best presentations are like movies; they should be based on real cases
I invite you to read more.
Ofir.
@iamondemand
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Article: Amazon AWS storage basics: Stop the sprawl before it begins ! |
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December 14 2011 - blog.newvem.com
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There is a common perception that cloud storage should not really worry you because it is very cheap and available at any time. Is that really true ? It is common to hear AWS consumers say that AWS storage = S3 – this is true but it is not the whole truth.
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Article: The Hopes of the "Cloud Management Team" : Ops, DevOps or NoOps ? |
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November 13 2011 - blog.newvem.com
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According to Gartner's report “Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda”, almost half of all CIOs expect to adopt cloud technologies within the next five years. Not surprisingly Gartner's analysts expect an extreme increase from 3% to 43% of the IT organizations that will run applications in the cloud. No doubt that most of the IT organizations already adopted SaaS, IaaS adoption is evolving rapidly and PaaS gain momentum.
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Article: The Cloud Lock-In (Part 3): SaaS is Really Nice |
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November 07 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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This is the third and last post in regarding the cloud lock-in. In the first and the second parts I covered the vendor lock-in of IaaS and PaaS. The appealing registration and the low cost overwhelm the new SaaS consumers that often makes them forget that eventually the service will become something they just can’t live without. What will happen if one day your SaaS vendor goes out of business ? In this post I will try to cover the threats and the actions the enterprise should take in order to lower the level of the SaaS lock-in risk.
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Article: The IaaS Management Market: Evolution, Vendors and More |
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October 03 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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A lot have already been said about the false cloud use where the IaaS platform utilized as an hosting extension of the IT organization’s data center and not taking advantage of the elasticity benefits to generate a cost effective and scalable IT operation. Using the public IaaS whether it is Amazon, Rackspace or any other vendor means using an highly dynamic environment which presents an increasing complexity hence loss of control. Checking the list below I can say that cloud (including all its layers IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) control basically contains the same aspects as the good old system management.
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Article: The Cloud Lock-In (Part 2): The Great Lock-In of PaaS |
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September 14 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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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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Article: The Cloud Lock-In (Part 1): Public IaaS is Great ! |
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September 04 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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Does the cloud present a major lock-in ? Does the move create substantial switching costs?
“Yes !” is the common answer I hear for those questions. In this article I will debate it basing my findings on real cloud adoption cases.
Learn more about IaaS lock-in.
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Article: Consumption, Utilization and Elasticity: Basics |
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August 04 2011 - cloudinsights.typepad.com
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Lets start with a basic scenario where there is a sudden peak in the demand for an application service as the amount of clients' requests increase. This event leads to a direct and immediate impact of the loa placed on the web servers that host the service. In the traditional world, the number of servers is fixed, therefore an overload adversely affects the application performance and the service may slow down or even be terminated. The IT team would want to restore the environment functionality and bring the service up as soon as possible. The immediate impact of such an event on the business can be devastating. Starting with this simple understanding, we can move into the world of cloud computing use including resources consumption, while relating to the key differences between the traditional data center and today’s cloud technologies.
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Article: Hybrid Cloudonomics - Part 2 |
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July 28 2011 - I Am OnDemand blog
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The first part of Weinman’s lecture discussing the basic “go to the cloud” and demonstrating cloud environments’ loads of different corporations’ web applications. In this part we will bring 6 scenarios presented by Weinman, each includes a brief analysis and proof of its cost and benefits.
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Article: Hybrid Cloudonomics: a Lecture by Joe Weinman - Part 1 |
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July 20 2011
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Ofir Nachmani & Joe Weinman |
Joe Weinman is well known in the cloud computing community as the founder of Cloudonomics. Presenting complex simulation tools, Weinman characterizes the sometimes counterintuitive business, financial, and user experience benefits of cloud computing including its on-demand, pay-per-use and other buisness aspects. Last month I had the pleasure of participating in Weinman’s webinar. Weinman discussed several interesting points which I would like to share with you.
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Article: SaaS and Cloud Computing: a lecture by Phil Waineright |
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July 20 2011
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| Contributors:
Ofir Nachmani & Phil Wainewright |
More than a week ago I attended SafeNet and IGT event discussing monetization of cloud applications. In this event I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Mr. Phil Waineright who lectured on the industry of Cloud Computing, including specifics for ISV as SaaS vendors. Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloud computing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. The presentation started with a technical PowerPoint problem, so it was a bit amusing as he started the lecture in a spontaneous manner.
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Article: Cloud Computing - Is this a Revolution or just an Evolution? |
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July 17 2011
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Three months ago I started this LinkedIn discussion and I keep getting comments about it. People might say that it is just a defiant question for marketing purposes. I say that this question raises many thoughts and opinions that helps marking the strategy of an IT organization. I invite you to read the following comments that can bring you to think a bit more about your current On-Demand strategy and approach.
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Article: The Cloud Security Part 1: For Dummies |
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July 17 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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From an attacker’s perspective, cloud providers aggregate access to many victims’ data into a single point of entry. As the cloud environments become more and more popular, they will increasingly become the focus of attacks. Some organizations think that liability can be outsourced, but no, and I hope that we all understand it cannot. The contract with your cloud vendors basically means nothing, the ISVs or should I say the SaaS providers still holds the responsibility, so rather than focusing on contracts and limiting liability in cloud services deals, you should focus on controls and auditability.
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Article: The Cloud Security Part 2: Market Perceptions, Vendors and More |
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July 17 2011 - www.iamondemand.com
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From an attacker’s perspective, cloud providers aggregate access to many victims’ data into a single point of entry. As the cloud environments become more and more popular, they will increasingly become the focus of attacks. Some organizations think that liability can be outsourced, but no, and I hope that we all understand it cannot. The contract with your cloud vendors basically means nothing, the ISVs or should I say the SaaS providers still holds the responsibility, so rather than focusing on contracts and limiting liability in cloud services deals, you should focus on controls and auditability.
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Article: 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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