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The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual-or consumerization-is reducing the individual's reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous access to high-speed networks along with network standards, open standards and content, and techniques for virtualizing hardware, software, and services is making it possible to leverage scale economies in unprecedented ways. What appears to be emerging is industrial-scale computing-a standardized infrastructure for delivering computing power, network bandwidth, data storage and protection, and services. Consumerization and industrialization beg the question "Is this the end of the middle?"; that is, what will be the role of "enterprise" IT in the future? Indeed, the bigger question is what will become of all of our intermediating institutions? This volume examines the impact of IT on higher education and on the IT organization in higher education.

Some OpenSocial apps can be written entirely with client-side JavaScript and HTML, leveraging the container to serve the page and store application data. In this case, the app can scale effortlessly because the only request hitting your server is for the gadget specification which is typically cached by the container anyway. However, there are lots of reasons to consider using your own server: * Allows you to write code in the programing language of your choice. * Puts you in control of how much application data you can store. * Lets you combine data from users on multiple social networks. * Enables interaction with the OpenSocial REST API. Setting up an OpenSocial app that uses a third party server is fairly simple. There are a few gotchas and caveats, but the real issues come up when your app becomes successful - serving millions of users and sending thousands of requests per second. Apps can grow especially fast on social networks, so before you launch your next social app, you should think about how to scale up quickly if your app takes off. Unfortunately, scaling is a complex problem that's hard to solve quickly and expensive to implement. Luckily, there are several companies that provide cloud computing resources-places you can store data or run processes on virtual machines. These computing solutions manage huge infrastructures so you can focus on your applications and let the "cloud" handle all the requests and data at scale. This tutorial focuses on a simple photo-sharing app that uses a third-party server to host photos and associated metadata. If this app is going to host millions of images and support many requests per second, we won't be able to run it on a single dedicated host. We'll break the app down and analyze the interactions between the OpenSocial App and the back end server. Then we'll implement the app in the cloud, first using Google App Engine, then leveraging Amazon's S3 data storage service. Finally, we'll look at s

What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the access to computers and their functionality via the Internet or a local area network. Users of a cloud request this access from a set of web services that manage a pool of computing resources (i.e., machines, network, storage, operating systems, application development environments, application programs). When granted, a fraction of the resources in the pool is dedicated to the requesting user until he or she releases them. It is called "cloud computing" because the user cannot actually see or specify the physical location and organization of the equipment hosting the resources they are ultimately allowed to use. That is, the resources are drawn from a "cloud" of resources when they are granted to a user and returned to the cloud when they are released. A "cloud" is a set of machines and web services that implement cloud computing.

hmmm, material snagged from the white paper I worked on.  :O I'm not too surprised, and it is on MS's blog, who technically owns the material anyway.  Great reuse!!

Cloud computing is one of the most trending subjects in IT today. However, a lot of people are still unable to clearly identify what is the "Cloud"? How to use it? What are its benefits? And why is it gaining popularity? Learn how to make optimal and correct usage of cloud deployment technology. Cutting-edge advice from Atlogys IT consultants panel comprising of Ex-Googlers and Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientists. For cloud deployment architecture, visit http://www.atlogys.com/cloud-deployment-architecture

Cloud computing is one of the most trending subjects in IT today. However, a lot of people are still unable to clearly identify what is the "Cloud"? How to use it? What are its benefits? And why is it gaining popularity? Learn how to make optimal and correct usage of cloud deployment technology. Cutting-edge advice from Atlogys IT consultants panel comprising of Ex-Googlers and Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientists. For cloud deployment architecture, visit http://www.atlogys.com/cloud-deployment-architecture

Cloud based data recovery is about preparing to recover business-critical data or technology infrastructure after disaster strikes. With a well-designed data recovery plan in place, your business could save money, time and valuable customers. Data recovery plans get your business back on track as quickly as possible. With data recovery within the cloud, implementation of service is almost immediate and scalability is rapidly adjustable. So implement this service now and improve your business efficiency.

Cloud based data recovery is about preparing to recover business-critical data or technology infrastructure after disaster strikes. With a well-designed data recovery plan in place, your business could save money, time and valuable customers. Data recovery plans get your business back on track as quickly as possible. With data recovery within the cloud, implementation of service is almost immediate and scalability is rapidly adjustable. So implement this service now and improve your business efficiency.

Cloud services are being talked up as a fundamental shift in web architecture that promises to move us from interconnected silos to a collaborative network of services whose sum is greater than its parts. The problem is that the protocols powering current cloud services; SOAP and a few other assorted HTTP-based protocols are all one way information exchanges. Therefore cloud services aren't real-time, won't scale, and often can't clear the firewall. So, it's time we blow up those barriers and come to Jesus about the protocol that will fuel the SaaS models of tomorrow--that solution is XMPP (also called Jabber) .

Imagine that a Singapore-based sales manager is accessing a CRM application which was once local, but is now based in the Hong Kong data center. But it's end of quarter and the peak load on the Hong Kong CRM application is over the specified capacity limit, so the transaction (running on a virtual machine) is transferred via VMotion to the data center in San Francisco, completed and sent back to the Singapore sales office.

What is Zimbra Hosting? Then, Zimbra hosting is the name of such an enterprise- class hosted email solution designed for viewing various business needed solutions together. So how it helps in business? Interested to learn its purposes?

What is Zimbra Hosting? Then, Zimbra hosting is the name of such an enterprise- class hosted email solution designed for viewing various business needed solutions together. So how it helps in business? Interested to learn its purposes?

Verizon Business is a leading provider of advanced global network, deep IP expertise and one of the broadest sets of next-generation offerings to its broadband, wireless and voice capabilities. Verizon Business is enabling enterprises to take advantage of the transforming communications landscape. It is accelerating the deployment of advanced services, including: Private IP, Seamless Mobility, Applications Hosting, Customer Service Management and Security.

Verizon Business is a leading provider of advanced global network, deep IP expertise and one of the broadest sets of next-generation offerings to its broadband, wireless and voice capabilities. Verizon Business is enabling enterprises to take advantage of the transforming communications landscape. It is accelerating the deployment of advanced services, including: Private IP, Seamless Mobility, Applications Hosting, Customer Service Management and Security.

T1 Internet service is one of the most commonly employed connections used by small and medium-sized businesses today. T1 Internet lines provide a dedicated connection that is superior to shared services, such as Cable or Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL). But during peak hours, bottlenecking occurs when too many subscribers attempt to use the same circuit at the same time. While a T1 line, on the other hand, is a dedicated connection and is used solely by you and your business and no one else. If no traffic is running over the circuit, it will remain idle until it is used by you again.

Price cuts from Amazon, Google and Microsoft support predictions that the public cloud computing market is a race to the bottom -- for pricing, that is. Customers will no doubt benefit, but cloud providers who aren't one of those three companies should be prepared for a long, hard war of attrition.

Limelight Content Storage is a tool that is employed to speed the delivery of your rich content to the end user and hosts it in the Cloud. Customers today are drawn to media rich websites but these same customers also have very high expectations of websites and do not have the patience to wait for slow video buffering or error messages. With so much business competition out there you need to ensure that your delivery is not detracting clients. If you use Limelight Content Storage your data will have a shorter distance to travel to reach your potential customer.

Interesting view on depermeterisation. Hoff's view is that the protected assets are in smaller clumps and still have a perimeter.

What is VPS? VPS is Virtual Private Server which offers flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website. Looking for a hosting company? Contact us now.

What is VPS? VPS is Virtual Private Server which offers flexible, scalable, and economical hosting solution that can fit the needs of almost any kind of website. Looking for a hosting company? Contact us now.

SMAC is upsetting the domain. No CIO dialogue is accomplished devoid of considering influence of SMAC on industry and business. Rapid developments in this technology pile are accumulating value to complete breadth of businesses and industries. Rewards are several and appear very captivating, with assurances being made as big as - forecasting future (Analytics), accessible everywhere (Mobile), everything is so easy and networked (Social), and at a very low cost (Cloud). This fresh technology pile has begun changing tomorrow's organization and has influence on every part of a business, therefore consequently on the every software applications being utilize inside the company and by the company.

What about privacy in an era of cloud computing? If I store my data in a cloud, is the data in a "closed container" and therefore private under the 4th Amendment? Or is putting data in a cloud analogous to giving the numbers I dial on my phone to the phone company?

"This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go. At best, I might be able to help make a new landscape clear. At worst, hopefully I can at least provide one framework for future discussion."