Several months ago, I said that Netflix’s push to drive the adoption of its open-source cloud-management toolkit, NetflixOSS, had the capability to “ruin cloud computing.” Portion of my argument revolved across the Netflix Aminator tool, which facilities the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). While Aminator can be a wide variety for Netflix, I argued that it encourages precisely the wrong habits for almost all of businesses attempting to deploy applications within the cloud. After many long discussions about that initial article, i think there’s still significant confusion about how one should best use AMIs (or the equivalent from other public cloud providers), and so i’m dedicating this column to what I call “the baking debate.” Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> Let’s start with some background: Anyone who desires to use a public infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS) must use machine images. These machine images are what they sound like — a picture of a virtual server... Read More »
Google Adds ‘Security Issues’ Feature To Webmaster Tools
Google has announced the launch of a brand new Webmaster Tools feature called Security Issues, which shows verified webmasters info concerning the security issues on their sites (in one place), and permits them to find problems faster with detailed code snippets and request reviews for all issues in a single new process. Google’s Meenali Rungta and Hadas Fester say in a joint blog post at the Webmaster Central blog, “We know that as a domain owner, discovering your site is hacked with spam or malware is stressful, and attempting to clean it up under a time constraint may be very challenging. We’ve been working to make recovery even easier and streamline the cleaning process — we notify webmasters when the software they’re running on their site is obsolete, and we’ve arrange a dedicated help portal for hacked sites with detailed articles explaining each step of the method to recovery, including videos.” “Now, when we’ve detected your site could have been hacked with spam or with... Read More »
VMware Killed By Commoditization? Not So Fast
VMware reported third-quarter results on Oct. 21 that said it grew 14% over its third quarter last year. That sounds about right for a corporation stressed from Microsoft’s free Hyper-V and open source code on one side, and Amazon Web Services and other cloud suppliers at the other. It’s called the commoditization of the virtualization market; everyone’s heard about it. And i am here to inform you, it is not happening, in any case not within the way that Wall Street analysts assume it’s miles. It’s coming, as surely because the next ice age, but VMware keeps putting new management products on top of the info center’s virtualized environment. It’s started reaching out to cope other sorts of virtual machines. In various ways it stays three steps sooner than commoditization’s noose. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> How can that be? Don’t market survey figures show Microsoft’s Hyper-V gaining faster that can be purchased and pushing out VMware’s ESX Server? Yes,... Read More »
Here’s A Lesson At the Google Wallet Objects API Java Quick Start
Google has put out a brand new Google Developers Live video on YouTube discussing the Wallet Objects API and the way to start with their Java quick start sample. It really is designed to assist developers start with their integration quickly. It showcases authorizing access, inserting a brand new Wallet Objects class, using the Saved Wallet API and using the net service API to enable instant sign-up and linking from the Google Wallet app. When Google launched the recent Wallet app last month, it announced some new loyalty programs, which profit from the Objects API, which itself, was launched earlier this year.
Exclusive: Infor Steps Up Cloud, E-Commerce Plays
Charles Phillips doesn’t have plenty of patience for old perceptions of his company. Elevate the numerous ERP, CRM, HCM and asset management pieces and parts rolled up into Infor, and Phillips, CEO, is probably going to show the discussion to the company’s ION integration services layer, the slick new task-oriented user interfaces or the Ming.le social and event hub. Sitting in a conference room in Infor’s slick new headquarters in Manhattan’s trendy Flatiron neighborhood, Phillips is filling InformationWeek in at the two latest initiatives within the reinvention of Infor. The 1st is UpgradeX, a program designed to accelerate Infor’s move into the cloud by helping customers move to the most recent, 10x versions of Infor applications managed by Infor and running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> The second one initiative is Rhythm, a cloud-based e-commerce platform that Phillips says may help customers build state-of-the-art Web storefronts backed by product configuration capabilities, recommendation engines,... Read More »