Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Amazon Announces Private Cloud

A limited beta of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) has been announced by Amazon Web Services. It is a secure and seamless integration between the Amazon cloud and your current IT infrastructure. Amazon VPC connects your existing infrastructure to a group of isolated AWS computer resources through VPN or Virtual Private Network connection; it also extends your present management capabilities of security services, intrusion detection systems and firewalls to include your resources of AWN. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) resources are integrated by Amazon VPC and in future will also integrate Amazon VPC with other services of AWS.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Garther: Cloud Services Brokerage Expected to Grow Significantly

The growth of cloud computing services and its complexity will demand end users to increasingly look for integration of service combinations, as per Gartner. Their research has identified the emergence of a new service called "cloud service brokerages". These third parties will be primarily negotiating relationships between the cloud service providers and the users including the users' cloud environment services integration. The location of these brokers and their products can be found at the site of the service provider, the user or in the cloud itself, as a service.

Gartner made a forecast in March that global revenue from cloud services in 2009 would exceed $56.3 billion which is 21.3% higher than the figure for the previous which stood at $46.4 billion. He also stated that total global revenue may reach $150.1 billion in 2013.


 

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Monitis Hybrid Monitoring

Monitis provides an innovative dual approach which enables the user to benefit from agent and agentless monitoring. This unique hybrid systems monitoring technique can blend both agent and agentless monitoring into a unified monitoring system for your entire business. Monitis offers the high resolution monitoring of an agent-based monitoring system when required, in addition to the low cost advantages of lower resolution agentless systems when intense monitoring is not required. For instance, your IT staff can setup agent based monitoring on your high priority ERP and Web servers while reserving a more passive system or agentless monitoring on low priority servers and local printers. This allows IT to have a flexible, ubiquitous, and efficient command of the complete IT environment. Consequently, the IT staff will have comprehensive overview of all components of the IT environment, including places that previously gone unmonitored.

Monday, August 3, 2009

SaaS Terminology Defined

Saas products are described in several different ways by professionals, service providers, technology users, and even software vendors, sometimes resulting in user confusion. Terms such as SaaS, Hosted, Software plus Service, Cloud Computing, ASP, Utility Computing, On-Demand, and Multi-tenant applications were often used synonymously. To assist users in differentiating between SaaS products and providers, please find the definitions of each of these SaaS keywords here.