As mentioned in the previous blog post on Private Clouds, the vendors are coming out with some products on this technology.
IBM launched the CloudBurst and HP BladeSystem Matrix.
All the three types of private clouds look promising at the current moment; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Service oriented, self-provisioning model of Cloud and the pay-as-you-go billing are key factors of success for Clouds.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Google Fusion Tables
Q. Is Google experimenting with "Clouding" the "database"?
It looks to be.....
One can now upload upto 100MB table with a total limit of 250MB as of now to this new experiment.
It is surely a step towards taking the spreadsheets to the cloud. But will it pose a problem to BIG database vendors too in future?
Let us wait and watch.....
To know more about Fusion Tables go through FAQs and play around.
It looks to be.....
One can now upload upto 100MB table with a total limit of 250MB as of now to this new experiment.
It is surely a step towards taking the spreadsheets to the cloud. But will it pose a problem to BIG database vendors too in future?
Let us wait and watch.....
To know more about Fusion Tables go through FAQs and play around.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Next dimension in search - Google Squared
Google has released a new search tool - Google Squared. This provides a structure to the unstructured data. It searches for all the related information and puts the data into a "Square" - a typical spreadsheet format. One can add rows and columns to it and save the Square.
It looks very good at the first look. All the best Google!!
http://www.google.com/squared
It looks very good at the first look. All the best Google!!
http://www.google.com/squared
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Private Clouds
An interesting trend emerging is the concept of "Private Cloud" in the Data Center Management Area.
This trend eventually combines the strengths of
a. Standardization of overall infrastructure based on open standards
b. Virtualization of server resources
c. Seemless Provisioning of applications
d. Pay-as-you-go billing models and charge back of IT resources based on consumption
e. Services oriented architecture (SOA)
Their main advantages over the "PUBLIC clouds" are
1. less risk of security related issues
2. more control over the network bandwidth and availability
In my opinion, some big IT houses will adopt to "Private Clouds" to get the benefits of cloud computing while keeping the control in-house in the short term. As the technology advances and matures, it will also benefit the PUBLIC CLOUD providers!
This trend eventually combines the strengths of
a. Standardization of overall infrastructure based on open standards
b. Virtualization of server resources
c. Seemless Provisioning of applications
d. Pay-as-you-go billing models and charge back of IT resources based on consumption
e. Services oriented architecture (SOA)
Their main advantages over the "PUBLIC clouds" are
1. less risk of security related issues
2. more control over the network bandwidth and availability
In my opinion, some big IT houses will adopt to "Private Clouds" to get the benefits of cloud computing while keeping the control in-house in the short term. As the technology advances and matures, it will also benefit the PUBLIC CLOUD providers!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Desktop Widgets
"Desktop Widgets" is an emerging design pattern in delivering desktop applications with a Rich Interface to the Internet applications running on different client environments like Windows, Mac and Linux.
AIR - provides an runtime environment for running such applications.
How will it compare with the Browser? - As per Adobe, the comparison is here.
As per the AIR blog it claims it has passed 100 Million installations few months back!!!
AIR - provides an runtime environment for running such applications.
How will it compare with the Browser? - As per Adobe, the comparison is here.
As per the AIR blog it claims it has passed 100 Million installations few months back!!!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5
The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g called Release 5 or OEM 10gR5 released... It is more stable, manageable with new features in overall enterprise management.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
New Technology and its Manageability
New Technology and its Manageability
However great the new technology is, it requires a manageability solution along with it. "Manageability" is the overall ease of the technology starting at its commissioning until its decommission.
Even with great manageability features, the Oracle RAC took some time to move into mainstream production. [Ref. Gartner Report on Oracle RAC claims it took nearly eight years]
In that case, what is the importance of "Manageability" of a "Enterprise Manageability Solution"???
However great the new technology is, it requires a manageability solution along with it. "Manageability" is the overall ease of the technology starting at its commissioning until its decommission.
Even with great manageability features, the Oracle RAC took some time to move into mainstream production. [Ref. Gartner Report on Oracle RAC claims it took nearly eight years]
In that case, what is the importance of "Manageability" of a "Enterprise Manageability Solution"???
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
DBA 2.0
It is just over an year after the word "DBA 2.0" was coined in the 2007 open world. Just thought of writing my opinion.
DBAs are people, they use Processes & Tools. Upgrading the tools, processes and the application of the upgraded tools and processes to manage the next generation data center is truly the DBA 2.0.
In my opinion the DBA 1.0 has to continuously upgrade on the point versions and finally end up at the major upgrade DBA 2.0. A sudden upgrade to DBA 2.0 is just next to impossible.
An upgrade doesn't necessarily mean obsolescing good old processes or tools - it is only improving on the strong basics and fundamentals. So, a DBA 2.0 is still able to fall back on to the well known tool SQL*Plus and manage the database.
So, How many "DBA 2.0" are available on Market today?
DBAs are people, they use Processes & Tools. Upgrading the tools, processes and the application of the upgraded tools and processes to manage the next generation data center is truly the DBA 2.0.
In my opinion the DBA 1.0 has to continuously upgrade on the point versions and finally end up at the major upgrade DBA 2.0. A sudden upgrade to DBA 2.0 is just next to impossible.
An upgrade doesn't necessarily mean obsolescing good old processes or tools - it is only improving on the strong basics and fundamentals. So, a DBA 2.0 is still able to fall back on to the well known tool SQL*Plus and manage the database.
So, How many "DBA 2.0" are available on Market today?
Friday, November 21, 2008
Difference between EAI and ESB
What really is ESB (SOA term)? What is its main difference with EAI (slightly older term)?
EAI is generally a HUB and SPOKE model of integrating the applications. When we remove the HUB from EAI and replace with a BUS (called ESB - Enterprise Service Bus) it becomes the SOA.
"Web Services" can be developed using multiple technological options can then be put on to this BUS and used by multiple consumers.
The SOA gives the marketplace to buy and sell services as commodity. The standards around the service description, service discovery and service invocation makes it all possible.
ESB is a concept, there are several software tools enabling the implementation of ESB are available in the market. They generally run on a middleware server as an application providing some core functionality around the service choreography and orchestration.
There are also BPEL engines which can do all the functionality of ESB and provide more complex work flow modeling of business processes.
It is an important decision to make between the ESB and BPEL processor manager while providing solutions.
There are instances a classical EAI tool would be sufficient to solve a specific problem where the BPEL based solutions are being implemented!!!!
Links:
Good Link found on the web on this subject: http://emergingtech.ittoolbox.com/documents/soa-vs-eai-vs-esb-12998
EAI is generally a HUB and SPOKE model of integrating the applications. When we remove the HUB from EAI and replace with a BUS (called ESB - Enterprise Service Bus) it becomes the SOA.
"Web Services" can be developed using multiple technological options can then be put on to this BUS and used by multiple consumers.
The SOA gives the marketplace to buy and sell services as commodity. The standards around the service description, service discovery and service invocation makes it all possible.
ESB is a concept, there are several software tools enabling the implementation of ESB are available in the market. They generally run on a middleware server as an application providing some core functionality around the service choreography and orchestration.
There are also BPEL engines which can do all the functionality of ESB and provide more complex work flow modeling of business processes.
It is an important decision to make between the ESB and BPEL processor manager while providing solutions.
There are instances a classical EAI tool would be sufficient to solve a specific problem where the BPEL based solutions are being implemented!!!!
Links:
Good Link found on the web on this subject: http://emergingtech.ittoolbox.com/documents/soa-vs-eai-vs-esb-12998
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Parallel Data Processing in Grid
Functional programming Languages, emphasizing the evaluation of mathematical processing without regarding the state change are on rise to do different analytic operations on the several Petabytes of data especially in search engine and web analytic functions.
The old "lisp" has slowly transformed into the new generation scripting "sawzall" incorporating massive parallel processing using map and reduce functions.
Sawzall is used at Google the famous search engine.
The old "lisp" has slowly transformed into the new generation scripting "sawzall" incorporating massive parallel processing using map and reduce functions.
Sawzall is used at Google the famous search engine.
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