Cloud Services

Middleware goes up the stack, heads toward cloud

Red Hat's JBoss World 2011 in Boston last week presented a unique view on some of the issues that press upon CTOs, software architects and development managers today. Of...

Data grid doings at Red Hat JBoss World

At Red Hat JBoss World this week Red Hat, Inc. disclosed a

Amazon cloud stumbles – Netflix plays on

Cloud computing caught some flak last week as Amazon's Elastic Cloud snapped. Customer Netflix seemed to have dodged the blackout. Why not? Its boss Reed Hastings has true technology roots.

Cloud computing influences mashups and middleware – but midrange legacy won’t move soon

Last week on SearchSOA.com James Denman published a podcast interview with mashup expert Michael Ogrinz, author of "Mashup Patterns." Naturally, they spoke about enterprise mashups, but with a twist. James and Michael hit on the apparent

Can there be such a thing as a private cloud?

Someone raised an interesting question to industry expert Judith Hurwitz. They asked if there really can be such a thing as a private cloud. After all, the "cloudiest thing" about cloud is its...

What are emerging cloud computing best practices?

By Alan Earls What are emerging cloud computing best practices?  According to Jignesh Shah, vice president for Business Infrastructure Products & Solutions at Software AG, one of the emerging best practices is to centralize internal access to all cloud services through a 'gateway' or...

SOA governance, cloud computing and trust

Governance is one of the essential elements of SOA. It is also one of those aspects of SOA that is likely to come to the fore in cloud computing. Service dependencies that are inherent in composite applications are hard enough to track as it is. There is every reason to believe these dependencies...

Cloud Computing Modeling Notation (CCMN) for SOMF targets cloud services

Experienced SOA services developers are in a good position to make the leap to cloud computing services, but they may need new modeling tools and methods along the way. You can count modeling notations for cloud among such tools.

Ehcache Java in-memory store gains advanced analytic traits

Caching specialist Terracotta Inc. recently released search features that allow the Ehcache Java in-memory data base to support analytical views of data that may have heretofore required a return visit to a relational database architecture. "Now you have native search capability added to...

Got Cloud? Need SOA.

By Ryan Cloutier

Cloud computing is becoming a popular buzzword, which is leading...