Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of September 3rd that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend!
Complexity is hard and scale is hard. If youâre going to have a well-architected app that scales properly, youâre going to have lots of components for all sorts of reasons, so youâll be building your apps with different workers, different process types, and message queuesâĤ
Amazon makes storage service more Web-friendly by Mikael Ricknas | Infoworld
Amazon is adding a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing capability to its S3 Simple Storage Service, allowing developers to more easily build Web applications that access data stored in the company's cloud.
Netflix open-sources Eureka to fill gap in Amazonâs cloud by Barb Darrow | Gigaom
On Tuesday, Netflix put source code for its Eureka mid-tier load balancing technology onto Github so that other Amazon Web Services users can tweak it for their own use. This isnât the first time Netflix has filled voids in the AWS stack.
Private Cloud Builders Team Up For Tussle With OpenStack by Klint Finley | Wired Enterprise
On Wednesday, in an effort catch your attention, two companies building on-premise alternatives to Amazonâs cloud services announced a partnership. Basho is integrating its Amazon Simple Storage System (S3) compatible product RiakCS with Apache CloudStack, an open source private cloud system backed by Citrix.
The Tale of Two Clouds â What is the Future of Cloud Adoption in ITÂ by Mark Thiele | Gigaom
When it comes to the debate on public versus private clouds or commodity versus legacy IT, there seems no room for nuance. So, while cloud and commodity IT are the way of the future, private cloud and legacy IT are here to stay.
Cisco Nexus 1000V as Enabler of Cloud by Jeremy Oakey | Presidio Blog
A private cloud is built upon a virtualized network, along with storage and compute, resources. Many virtual networks are overlaid on top of the shared physical network, logically separating tenants on the shared resources. One challenge is that the physical network lacks visibility into the topology of the overlays. A second obstacle is that network overlays utilizing standard vSwitches do not allow for security and network policies to live-migrate with VMs.
Defining the Open Cloud by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier | Linux.com
Last week at CloudOpen we had a short panel discussion about what makes an âopen cloud.â Surprisingly, some folks donât think that having the source code to the cloud service is a requirement.
Study Finds Cloud Security Is the Biggest Barrier to Cloud Adoption by Gerry Grealish | Cloud Computing Journal
Another month brings another new study highlighting security concerns as the leading barrier to cloud uptake in the enterprise. Rather than decreasing, it seems like the concerns are going in the other direction.
Cloud storage to hit 1.3B subs by 2017 but whereâs the money? by Barb Darrow | Gigaom
Just when we think weâve maxed out the amount of cloud-based storage the world can consume, thereâs data to prove us wrong. IHS iSuppli research shows that cloud storage subscriptions will grow at double-digit rates til 2017 when theyâll hit 1.3 billion.
Six Steps to Moving Enterprise Software to the Cloud by Andrew Till | Wired Enterprise
The global enterprise software industry is in a period of rapid transition, with more companies and industries being run on software and delivered as an online service to a widening range of connected devicesâĤ As a result, leading independent software vendors (ISVs) are transforming their products and services along many dimensions for cloud-based delivery. Hereâs a look at the six most common steps theyâre taking towards cloud-based enterprise software.
Some more noteworthy pieces...
- Open Source Business Models by Jake Rosenblum | CloudTweaks
- Understanding the Technology Hype Cycle by Dinakaran Sankaranayanan | Social Media Today
- A Cure For Small Business IT Aches & Pains: Itâs In The Cloud [Infographic]Â by Andy Monshaw | CloudTweaks
- IaaS Market Trends in 2012Â by GetCloudServices
- 12 hot cloud companies worth watching by Brandon Butler | PCWorld Business Center
- Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, but Open Data Makes Them Richer by ITBusinessEdge
- Basho joins Apache Cloudstack effort  by Barb Darrow
