Cloud-Based App Development Tools

Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is being used by a number of corporations, service providers, researchers, data centers, and others. Based on the growing numbers of companies turning to OpenStack, the original developers were obviously onto an idea that has proven popular. But why have companies turned to it? "We chose OpenStack because we want to help enterprise IT deploy and manage applications on OpenStack clouds. Scalr builds enterprise open source Cloud Management software designed to allow IT administrators to set quotas, budget alerts, and access control to their users, and introduce automation and agility tooling,... (more)

Twelve New Programming Languages: Is Cloud Responsible?

Do we need programming languages? You may think that the answer is no. But, if you go by the recent trend you may need to change your mind. Why is Google working two (GO, DART) new programming languages? Why has IBM (X10), Cray (Chapel) and Red Hat (Ceylon) working on creating a new programming language of its own? Why have the attendees of the QCon London have selected 5 (HTML5, DART, Scala, Clojure, Node.js) new languages as the most important software development trends for 2012? What does Neil McAllister mean when he says that these 10 (DART, Ceylon, GO, F#, OPA, Fantom, Zim... (more)

Introduction to Cloud Computing for Newbies

Cloud computing is a general term for computing services delivered over the Internet, as opposed to computing services hosted inside your own network; on your own premises. These computing services can be as simple as Internet based email or as complex as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. Cloud computing offers cost savings, because users don't have to invest capital budget to purchase hardware and software, nor expend the operating costs of electric power, space and cooling for the hardware and employee costs of maintaining the hardware and software. The maj... (more)

Dell Cloud Introduces Cloud-enabled Solutions for Running SAP Apps

Dell Services on Tuesday announced the first offers in its new Dell Cloud suite for SAP solutions, further enriching Dell's portfolio in support of SAP solutions. For customers looking to move their SAP solutions, Dell's easy-order offers blend a set of SAP-certified enterprise-class cloud services in a secure hybrid, public or private cloud. Dell Cloud for SAP Solutions provide the agility to easily integrate legacy applications and enables customers to expand beyond physical resources for "just in time" resource allocation and incremental on-demand capacity. The two offerings ... (more)

That Boom You Hear Is the Cloud

Cloud computing is creating the new Wall Street boom, according to NIA. The only industry that is as bright as cloud computing on Wall Street is social networking, NIA said in a recent report. 2012 will be known as the year cloud computing became widely adopted worldwide. Cloud computing is expected to create 14 million new jobs globally by 2015. In the consumer space, Gartner predicts cloud services will be on 90 percent of personal consumer devices by 2015 so consumers can store, connect, stream and synchronize content across multiple platforms at different locations. That's a... (more)