Java Cloud Strategy
Published January 31st, 2012 Under Software Development | Leave a Comment
The Cloud approach is gaining ground in organizations as the new standard for IT infrastructure. We mostly see it in its “public” version with offers like Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry or Windows Azure. There is however also the emergence of “private” clouds that are operated inside organizations.
The Cloud Computing Development web site has published an interview of Rajesh Ramchandani, who is the founder and VP of Products of CumuLogic. This company was founded by former Sun executives and has the famous James Gosling in its advisory board. In this article, he discusses the strategy of CumuLogic as a provider of private Platform as a Service (PaaS) software for Java. Their product allows multiple private and/or public clouds to be supported at the same time, therefore avoiding cloud (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) vendor lock-in.
Software Linkopedia September 2011
Published September 7th, 2011 Under Links | Leave a Comment
Web Site: Introduction to Databases – Stanford University Free Online Course
Blog: The 10 Minute Test Plan
Blog: A Checklist for a Distributed Retrospective
Blog: Appraisals and Agile Don’t Play Nicely
Article: Rational Unified Best Practices: A Primer for the Project Manager
Article: Defining Software Quality and Economic Value
Article: Tools and Techniques for .NET Code Profiling
Article: Scenarios for Load Testing
Tool: Sureassert UC – integrated Java unit testing solution for Eclipse
Tool: NDBGen – C# LINQ-to-SQL models and SQL installation script generator
Video: JUnit Tutorial
Video: Cloud Computing Economics
Video: Scrum Sprint Showcase
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A Java Cloud Platform
Published May 30th, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
I have attended recently a interesting conference by Sacha Labourey, the former CTO of JBoss, that presented his new start-up named Cloudbees that aims at providing a “frictionless” platform to develop and run Java (or more precisely JVM-based language) software in the cloud. This conferences provided interesting informations on the benefits and limitations of currently using the Cloud as a development and execution platform. For more information on this topic, you can read Running Java in the Cloud with Cloudbees.
Steve Ballmer Presents Microsoft Cloud Strategy
Published February 21st, 2011 Under Conferences | Leave a Comment
Steve Ballmer made a presentation in Switzerland this week and I had the chance to be selected as an attendee for his conference. Its topic was the Cloud opportunities offered by Microsoft. His talk was followed by a more technical presentation on Azure by a Microsoft consultant. Read more
Selling Software by the Pound
Published June 25th, 2008 Under Software Development | 1 Comment
In 2003, Methods & Tools published the article “ASP Tools for Software Development“, where ASP did not stand for Microsoft’s Active Server Pages, but for Application Service Providers. This was the “acronym of the day” for companies that were offering hosted software tools. Most of the companies mentioned in this article are still active today, but there is a new marketing label attached to their activity. The media prefer to speak about SaaS (Software as a Service) or give to this phenomenon the nickname “The Cloud”. Beyond the various names, there are some differences between the type of control you have on these external applications. SaaS is defined as a simple license for a specific hosted external application. The Cloud technological ambition is to have applications running on external virtual infrastructure while you keep the control about software and data. Other terms like “the grid” or “on-demand” are also associated to the idea of using software tools as a service instead of buying a product to achieve the same objectives. Read more