IaaS

3 months, 5 days ago

The many lies about reducing complexity part 2: Cloud

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That standard image that explains the difference between on-premises, IAAS, PAAS, and SAAS in the cloud? You know what, it is hugely misleading. Here is the real deal.

4 years, 9 months ago

The Cloud: What’s UNIX® Got to Do With It?

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By The Open Group Cloud computing has come of age and is the solution of choice for CIOs looking to maximize use of resources while minimizing capital spend.[1] Cloud solutions, whether it is infrastructure, platform or service, have the appeal … Continue reading →

7 years, 1 month ago

The PaaS shakeup and what it means for OpenStack

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Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is hot! Why? Because the year started with a lot of link-bait articles declaring PaaS dead. That’s a clear sign, right? More seriously, the expected size of the public PaaS market will be $14 billion by 2017. That’s about 10 percent of the application development and deployment market, which means two things: PaaS is becoming significant and there still is plenty of room to grow. If this doesn’t.

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7 years, 6 months ago

The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

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“I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. It was a cold winter day on a hipster cloud conference. He wasn’t the only one that directly knew what my company did. Most people there knew the difference between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and therefore knew exactly what a PaaS company did, right? Well, not exactly… Nowadays, it’s.

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9 years, 2 months ago

Open Group Security Gurus Dissect the Cloud: Higher of Lower Risk

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By Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions For some, any move to the Cloud — at least the public Cloud — means a higher risk for security. For others, relying more on a public Cloud provider means better security. There’s more of a concentrated a…

9 years, 2 months ago

First Technical Standard for Cloud Computing – SOCCI

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By E.G. Nadhan, HP The Open Group just announced the availability of its first Technical Standard for the Cloud – Service Oriented Cloud Computing Infrastructure Framework (SOCCI), which outlines the concepts and architectural building blocks necessa…