Distributed Computing

Sorry for the delay, folks, but the holidays called... I promised to go over the options that one has when considering how to evolve from typical statically managed server environments to a utility computing model. I've thought a lot about this, and I see essentially two options: Deployment directly into a third party capacity utility Adoption of utility computing technologies in your own data center As a quick refresher to the other two parts of this series, I want to note that this is not...Read Full Story

Utility computing (also known as on demand computing) is the packaging of computing resources, such as computation and storage, as a metered service similar to a physical public utility (such as electricity, water, natural gas, or telephone network). This system has the advantage of a low or no initial cost to acquire the hardware as computational resources are essentially rented.   As utility computing is gaining more wide adoption and traction there is lot of discussion around utility grids...Read Full Story

 Performance testing is most essential and important in scaling various applications that are being built for the Web. Performance testing is very expensive to build as we need a large server database infrastructure which simulates the whole world.So it is difficult to host testing solutions from the user side as well as from the providers view. HP Recently announced cloud computing ,a new application performance test suite which runs on Amazon Elastic compute cloud(EC2).Cloud computing...Read Full Story

Some of you may be wondering why I am making such a big stink about software architecture on a blog about service level automation (SLAuto). Well, as Todd Biske points out , "the relationships (and potentially collisions) between the worlds of enterprise system management, business process management, web service management, business activity monitoring, and business intelligence" are easier to resolve if the appropriate access to metrics is provided for a software service. For SLAuto, this...Read Full Story

F5 Networks Helps Joyent Deliver Highly Scalable, On-Demand Cloud Computing Platform SEATTLE, Dec 01, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that Joyent, a leading cloud computing vendor, has successfully deployed the F5(R) BIG-IP(R) Local Traffic Manager(TM) solution in its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) server virtualization architecture. "Advanced Application Delivery...Read Full Story