Jul 20, 2010 Posted by cumulux

Windows Azure Appliance

Last week, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure Appliance in an effort to bring its well-received Public Cloud Strategy within the confines of the DMZ. So why is this a big deal ? The Azure appliance is probably the industry’s first private “Platform as a Service” from a major platform vendor. This has the potential to disrupt the cloud computing landscape and this note explore the... read more

Jun 10, 2010 Posted by cumulux

Cloud Governance

Governance in the Cloud Cloud Computing enables a tremendous amount of flexibility and scalability for deploying and managing your applications on the cloud. With this flexibility comes a list of items that have to be managed more closely compared to traditional systems.  Availability, Security, privacy, location of cloud services and  compliance are just some of the aspects of the cloud that have to be... read more

May 25, 2010 Posted by cumulux

The PaaS Gold Rush

There seems to be a sudden rush to the PaaS goldmine with the recent announcements from Salesforce.com and Google to support the Spring based OpenPaaS offering from VMWare. To understand the massive implications of this , we need to peel back the layers to explore the landscape of cloud computing. Infrastructure as a Service ( IaaS ) is getting commoditized. 4-5 years is a long time in Cloud Computing... read more

Apr 25, 2010 Posted by Cumulux

Cloud & Web Properties

Web properties jumped the cloud bandwagon early and seem to be the ones that are riding  it the most. What makes the cloud an interesting paradigm for them? This article explores the main reasons why it makes so much sense for scalable web properties ( which includes web applications as well as web sites ) to adopt cloud computing. Cyclical businesses An online shopping site knows the travails of the tide... read more

Apr 20, 2010 Posted by Cumulux

Top 10 asks for Azure

Azure is picking up tremendous amount of momentum and as a company in the vanguard of this transformation, we have been privy to many a discussion with ISVs and Enterprise businesses on building applications on Azure.  Azure is by far the most complete application development platform on the cloud. It is both feature rich and stable for a version 1 platform.  Here are the Top 10 themes that we are... read more