A Jaleel Kavungal

The value of cloud computing is the availability of technological infrastructure support that is always available, comprehensively useful, highly scalable and attractively priced. By this modern definition of cloud computing, System z has been an internalized cloud for decades an... (more)

Microsoft Azure services platform is a comprehensive offering that enables enterprises build full scale applications that leverage the advantages of the Cloud computing paradigm.  A useful analogy is to compare Windows Azure to conventional on-premise operating systems. Conventio... (more)

VMWare recently announced Cloud Foundry , a Platform as a Service with a decidedly new-school bent: You'll be able to sign up and tap into running database services like MySQL and MongoDB and login and write code directly to a Spring or Rails environment, much like Engine Yard o... (more)

Microsoft Azure services platform is a comprehensive offering that enables enterprises build full scale applications that leverage the advantages of the Cloud computing paradigm.  A useful analogy is to compare Windows Azure to conventional on-premise operating systems. Conventio... (more)

Windows azure platform is Microsoft's solution that helps developers build, host and scale web applications through Microsoft datacenters. The Azure Services Platform’s support for XML, REST and SOAP standards means that any of the Azure services can be called from other platfor... (more)

If someone asks me about the direct path to spending less and getting more from a cloud application, I would say that it is ‘multi-tenancy‘. Although the capability to subscribe to an application is minimally enough to satisfy the basic criteria of SaaS, in practice, a SaaS ap... (more)

Last week I wrote about Desktone DaaS offerings for $1 per day and I felt the trial ride was impressive, until I met iSpaces -  a new concept of DaaS that allows its users to access multiple desktops (called Spaces) in the cloud, from any computer and for free , catch is that yo... (more)

Converged infrastructure is an approach to managing a modular data center that relies on a specific vendor and the vendor’s partners to provide pre-configured bundles of hardware and software. Converged infrastructure is sometimes called “infrastructure in a box”. Cisco Systems’... (more)

Facebook infrastructure has already become the buzz word in the industry and it is the objective of all top infrastructures that will migrate to hybrid and private clouds over the next 5 years.  Prediction in the industry is that all future IT enterprise infrastructure will look... (more)

Traditional PC desktops are making its way out and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is gaining momentum across enterprises. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the technique of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server. Wh... (more)

Last week I wrote about Desktone DaaS offerings for $1 per day and I felt the trial ride was impressive, until I met iSpaces -  a new concept of DaaS that allows its users to access multiple desktops (called Spaces) in the cloud, from any computer and for free , catch is that you... (more)

Converged infrastructure is an approach to managing a modular data center that relies on a specific vendor and the vendor’s partners to provide pre-configured bundles of hardware and software. Converged infrastructure is sometimes called “infrastructure in a box”. Cisco Systems’ ... (more)

Facebook infrastructure has already become the buzz word in the industry and it is the objective of all top infrastructures that will migrate to hybrid and private clouds over the next 5 years.  Prediction in the industry is that all future IT enterprise infrastructure will look ... (more)

Traditional PC desktops are making its way out and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is gaining momentum across enterprises. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the technique of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server. Whi... (more)

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the technique of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server.   As a concept, VDI separates a personal computer desktop environment from a physical machine and stores entire programs, app... (more)

In recent years, web development and deployment has become extremely fast and easy with the usage of open source software development tools and frameworks.  The usage of open source software has reduced capital and operating expenses for web startups to a greater extend that ther... (more)