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 and has found to have all the features to make it a natural Cloud Platform. The power of the mainframe's software and hardware virtualization, its shared resources architecture, its real and virtual memory controls, its in-memory internal communications structure, its specialty engines, its energy efficiency and its accommodation of Linux and Java natively are all cloud-relevant, and enable IBM System z machine to be a natural zCloud. This article looks at all the cloud relevant features of IBM System z machines in detail. Requirements Any cloud system has to meet four basic requirements: Sca... (more)

Host WordPress Blogging Platform on Windows Azure Cloud

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. Conventional operating systems manage basic storage, devices, and run applications. Windows Azure provides the same functionality within Microsoft's datacenters which are built to provide cloud computing. In order to provide a runtime environment for custom applications, Windows Azure's Fabric Controller manages a... (more)

zLAMP: Web's Most Popular Software Stack on IBM System z

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 there is a significant increase in the volume of new internet startups with applications developed using open source software. One of the widely used open source stack for web application development is LAMP. As the expansion implies, LAMP stack consists of a web server (Apache), a database server (MySQL) an... (more)

Cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service (Daas)

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. While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) seems like a promising alternative to traditional desktops, in reality it is costly and complex for most companies to implement due to the infrastructure cost required. Enterprise managed VDI solutions still keep the burden of infrastructure management with the o... (more)

VMware's Micro Cloud is a Personal PaaS for Cloud application developers

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 or Heroku.  Cloud Foundry provides a platform for building, deploying, and running cloud apps using Spring for Java developers, Rails and Sinatra for Ruby developers, Node.js and other JVM frameworks including Grails.Cloud Foundry is available online for free under the Apache 2.0 license, and it will be go... (more)