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Cloud computing is a valuable and important technology that is fundamentally changing the way we use and develop applications. Linux and open source provide the foundation for both public and private infrastructures. Explore the anatomy of the cloud, its architecture, and the technologies used to build these dynamic and scalable computing and storage platforms.
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Cloud computing presents an added level of risk as it involves securing services being provided by a third party. This IBM Redpaper publication represents best practice implementations for cloud security.
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IBM Cast Iron Systems expert Simon Peel will be among many industry cloud experts at CloudCon, a virtual event on September 2 at 1 pm ET. This online event will show you how to achieve cloud computing success in 90 days or less. You will get an outline of the steps to cloud success - from project selection, design, test, deployment and on-going management. Online all in one day – all from the convenience of your desktop. Register now!
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Real users on the IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud show how applications and services thrive at 30,000 feet.
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Cloud computing represents a cost-effective way to access the needed compute, storage, and software resources on a pay-per-usage basis and without the upfront capital expense associated with traditional computing. Learn why IBM DB2 may be the best database option available for your business endeavors in the cloud.
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The basic principle in cloud security is to avoid reinventing the wheel. Use your existing security infrastructure to support your cloud computing efforts whenever possible. This not only avoids extra work, it allows you to use existing method and structures which have been tested and proven.
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Your CTO wants to know your cloud computing strategy -- and wants to know it tomorrow. There are a lot of choices, with many differences and similarities. This article series explores some of the options for an organization that wants to leverage the power and promise of cloud computing, with a focus on open source technologies. Learn how not all clouds are equal and about developing and managing in the cloud.
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Cloud computing is now here, but many still have questions about this new technology. Part 1 of this article series discusses cloud computing in general, then dissects the layers of the cloud, presents the different cloud types, along with their benefits and drawbacks, and explains why this movement is important for enterprise developers.
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This article explores some of the options for an organization that wants to leverage the power and promise of cloud computing, with a focus on open source technologies. Learn about several of the providers, such as Amazon, Microsoft®, Google, IBM®, Aptana, Heroku, Mosso, Ning, and Salesforce. Review the relative strengths and weaknesses of each platform, and what types of open source and proprietary technologies are supported on each platform.
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Learn how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds provide basic services you can use to deploy and run your applications. The article also discusses how Eucalyptus can be used as an infrastructure to create public or private clouds.
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Come take a look at the new cloud computing resource center on IBM developerWorks. It includes cloud articles, videos, and hands-on virtual workshops for developers and IT professionals new to cloud or interested in developing cloud infrastructures or applications. Additionally, developerWorks is hosting cloud-focused online communities and providing no-charge access to IBM software to help you get started.
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WebSphere Cloudburst Appliance is a new hardware appliance that provides access to software virtual images and patterns that can be used as is or easily customized, and then securely deployed managed and maintained in a private cloud.
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In this article, the second in a series on migrating a Linux application to the Amazon cloud, learn how to make your application more robust by employing a load balancer and persistent disk. You'll use multiple servers and learn how to safely back up your data.
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This article introduces some modifications to the source code of Walrus, the storage service component included with the Eucalyptus open source framework for cloud computing that implements an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment. Learn how to modify the Walrus source code, and how to recompile and run it, in order to improve the file-sharing and file-locking mechanisms in the Eucalyptus environment.
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Modeling domain objects for almost any type of application is a breeze using a relational framework like Grails, but what about SimpleDB? In this second half of his introduction to SimpleDB, Andrew Glover shows you how to use SimpleJPA, rather than the Amazon SDK, to persist objects in SimpleDB's cloud storage.
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The Simple Cloud API provides a common API to a variety of cloud services. It's a collaborative effort by Zend, GoGrid, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix and Rackspace, that allows you to write portable code that can interoperate with multiple cloud vendors. Best of all, the API allows you to use services specific to a particular vendor as necessary.
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Choosing the right automation product can be daunting. This article looks at a simple integration between IBM WebSphere CloudBurst and IBM Rational Build Forge to fully automate such a process, and thereby provide a rapid and repeatable means for delivering applications and application environments.
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Get an inside view on what the future of Java really looks like, as nine Java community leaders sound off on some of the big (and sometimes hard) questions facing the Java industry today.
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This group, a collaboration of cloud consumers and cloud vendors, defines use cases for cloud computing. Version 3 of the paper addresses security in the cloud and version 4, which will be published the end of 2Q, will include the latest thinking around cloud SLAs.
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Cloud computing is an increasingly popular paradigm that can significantly accelerate development and prototyping cycles. In this tutorial you will learn how you can easily deploy your database applications and projects on the cloud in just minutes using IBM® DB2® data server and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). No prior cloud computing or DB2 experience is necessary.
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IBM Smart Business Development and Test Cloud helps you assess, plan, design and implement a flexible development and testing private cloud environment to help save capital and operating costs as well as reduce test cycle times, complexity and risks.
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The Zend Framework contains several classes that make using cloud-based storage services easy. This article covers the Zend classes that make it easy to work with virtual machines in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
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DB2 9 is an innovative database server for managing relational and XML data and is ideally suited for Cloud deployments. DB2 Workgroup is the data server for deployment in a departmental, workgroup, or medium-sized business environment, and exploits up to 16GB of memory.
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Use WebSphere Application Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)(11-16-09) WebSphere Application Server is a Java EE 5 certified, EJB 3.0 supported technology-based application platform. Build, deploy and manage robust, agile and reusable SOA business applications and services of all types while reducing application infrastructure costs.
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The libvirt library is a Linux API over the virtualization capabilities of Linux that supports a variety of hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, as well as QEMU and some virtualization products for other operating systems. This article explores libvirt, its use, and its architecture.
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New concepts and strategies require changes in vocabulary. With a move toward lower cost, highly flexible, cloud-friendly architectures, the concept of elasticity has been established for an enterprise IT solution. This article explores a specific definition of elasticity by describing examples present in IBM® WebSphere® eXtreme Scale, an elastic in-memory data grid.
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This article details the concept of cloud computing using a Virtual Computing Lab (VCL). We specifically focus on a cloud computing implementation methods through the VCL, how it helps within a research-oriented educational institution of higher learning, and finally, we discuss some of the important factors that demonstrate how a VCL provides a scalable, sustainable, economically valuable and viable contribution to the campus layer IT cyber-infrastructure.
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Learn how you can not only reduce application delivery backlogs but enable more rapid rollout of innovative new applications and services to market. Learn how to utilize cloud computing and virtualization technologies to ensure fast, repeatable, and consistent application deployment.
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A concise overview of the benefits this environment offers enterprise application developers in developing, testing, and deploying applications.
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Join in the discussions and share your ideas around cloud computing.
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Customize the newsletter to receive topics of interest to you including cloud computing, open source, java technology, Linux and more.
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Learn how to leverage XML Web services to integrate cloud data with enterprise applications, and build a sample application using the Salesforce Web Services API with the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS).
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This guide provides a rapid and thorough grounding in cloud computing.
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Listen to dW podcast interviews with Todd Watson from IBM; Lisa Kamm and Alex Cook from Google.
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Storage management plays a key role in cloud computing. Companies need to ensure all data is available to users, in a timely fashion, and applications perform at highest level. Learn more!
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Developing new SaaS applications or transforming existing packaged solutions to a SaaS model can be challenging. Our demonstration series contain common scenarios in sample applications, technologies, techniques, and best practices for delivering your software as a hosted service.
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