7 Vendors To observe At Cloud Connect Chicago 2013 (click image for larger view) On Wednesday, Oct. 23, i will have the risk to debate the present cloud stack wars with proponents of 3 different stacks at Cloud Connect Chicago. While many carriers and providers mix virtualization and orchestration tools, these three organizations are aligned with three distinct technology stacks: — HP has embraced OpenStack strongly, and i will be joined by Monty Taylor. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> — Verizon Terremark has a big role in CloudStack deployments, and Jim Anthony may be participating. — VMware has its own suite of virtualization and cloud tools for both private and non-private environments, which Mathew Lodge could be ready to speak to. a number of weeks ago, I postulated that today’s cloud platforms are in a race corresponding to that of operating systems a number of decades ago. Greg DeKoenigsberg of Eucalyptus posted a super rebuttal, wherein he speculated that, if... Read More »
Flash Player’s Worst Nightmare Is Now In Firefox Nightly
Adobe’s Flash Player is without doubt one of the few plugins on the web that won’t be going anywhere anytime soon. HTML5 has certainly tried to dethrone the net video playback king, however it still lacks most of the features that make Flash so convenient. Which may not be the case sooner instead of later though if Mozilla has its way. Ghacks reports that Mozilla, in its never ending quest to eradicate plugins from the net, has integrated Shumway into the newest version of Firefox Nightly. What’s Shumway, you ask? It’s an open source javascript-based SWF renderer. In other words, it’s Mozilla’s try to create a local Web technology which can do everything Flash does. In a blog post from last year, Mozilla’s Jet Villegas said the Shumway project had two main goals: 1. Advance the open web platform to soundly process rich media formats that were previously only available in closed and proprietary implementations. 2. Offer a runtime processor for SWF and other rich... Read More »
Containers Add New Efficiency To Cloud Computing
Many virtual machines are being spun up within the cloud to run a single application. Often, the resources consumed by that application are dwarfed by the dimensions of the operating system on the subject of memory, disk space and CPU utilization. So why run a whole OS simply to run one application? It truly is one problem virtual containers were created to unravel. Containers-as-a-service is a kind of infrastructure-as-a-service specifically aimed toward efficiently running a single application. A container is a kind of operating system virtualization that’s more efficient than typical hardware virtualization. It provides the mandatory computing resources to run an application as though it’s the only application running within the operating system — in other words, with a guarantee of no conflicts with other application containers running at the same machine. For agencies and enterprises moving applications to the cloud, the containers represent a wiser and less expensive technique to move to the cloud. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More... Read More »
Get More Out Google Mobile App Analytics [Android]
Google was putting out some educational videos about the way to get more out of Google Analytics, and never just those from the recently launched Analytics Academy offering. This one is set a half hour long, and lines Google engineer Andrew Wales discussing how you can get more out of attribution and campaign measurement on Android using Mobile App Analytics. It runs through: campaigns and universal analytics, Google Play campaign measurement (the way it works, implementation, testing and customary issues) and general campaign measurement. Google have been making a number of changes to Analytics. Get a glance at a number of the new stuff here.
When Cloud Backup Fails
In my last column we discussed a few of the limitations of cloud-based backup and why more cloud providers should provide some variety of external, portable storage to beat those challenges. I used tape technology for instance. The second one and potentially larger problem with tapeless cloud backup is the recovery process. Vendors’ claims concerning the loss of tape value have become out of hand. In case you lose a whole server, the info deduplication that helps you in backup will not prevent from a longer period of downtime while this information trickles in the course of the Internet. There isn’t a baseline to match it to and, even supposing there has been, most software solutions can’t do a deduplicated recovery. Webcasts More >> White Papers More >> Reports More >> In almost every case, having the provider create a tape and overnight it to you’d be faster. Incidentally, in the event that they gave you the flexibility to create your individual local tape as... Read More »