Poorly designed applications that run on cloud platforms are still poorly designed applications, no matter where they run.
Instead you should be thinking about how your company can best leverage cloud platforms to enable new capabilities.
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Microsoft are all offering cloud platforms and vying for ownership in this space.
Together, these announcements are strong milestones to the continuing progress and solid traction cloud platforms are having with the market.
What is clear is that whoever can win over the most developers for their cloud platforms will take home the trophy.
Meanwhile, Gigaom reports that Microsoft has hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, who had been chief scientist at Yahoo for Audience, Cloud Platforms and Search.
Scale-out, commodity cloud platforms are the future of your virtualization implementations, and over time, you will build more and more code on these type of deployments.
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Citrix has instead elected to invest more energy in its own orchestration software, CloudStack, says Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager of the cloud platforms group, Citrix.
Public cloud platforms achieve a lower cost basis by leveraging commodity infrastructure and economies of scale that come through multitenancy, automation, and standardization, he writes in a new post and report.
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Today however, the rapid consumer adoption of mobile apps is what drives demand for cloud services, cloud platforms and cloud infrastructure, as the low capital investment and instant scalability enable speed to market and individual user adoption.
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It also demonstrated new public cloud services from Boeing and General Mills plus a commissioned report by Forrester attesting to the differentiated economics of cloud platforms, something I talk about with CIOs in a report published this past spring.
Your focus should be on determining how much risk there is in this pattern and this may take a leap of faith on your part because as of right now, your developers know more about how to use public cloud platforms than you do.
Fortunately, the cloud is getting much better press as organizations discover proper fits for cloud computing platforms, and we choose the path to the cloud for both value as well as performance.
Applications that make the best use of cloud resources are those designed specifically for cloud computing platforms, as I described above.
You have to take things on a case-by-case basis, but as time progresses, cloud computing platforms are eliminating many of the platform tradeoffs.
Using open source virtualization technologies like KVM and Xen, ULAP is managed with the EUCALYPTUS and OpenStack cloud management platforms.
Unlike other cloud gaming platforms, Agawi CloudPlay is a flexible, white-label B2B solution that can be deployed on an open cloud environment, eliminating the need to build proprietary data centers.
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The ability to leverage cloud-delivered platforms that you rent means your costs can drop significantly.
We can stop speculating, hopefully stop cloudwashing, and get down to the real business of incorporating cloud services and platforms into our formal IT portfolios.
Another significant challenge arising from the adoption of cloud and mobile platforms is the increasing burden on end users to keep up with all the URLs and passwords they need to remember to do their jobs.
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The end result of this rapid adoption of cloud and mobile platforms is not only that more IT resources are physically moving outside the firewall but are also outside the visibility, management and even ownership of IT and the employer.
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"At SugarSync, we think the mobile experience is very important for users, which is why we have been the leader in mobile innovation for personal cloud and support more mobile devices and platforms than any other Cloud provider, " said Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync.
Kinvey is probably the most technical of the various cloud based app development platforms I looked at.
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As of September 2012, Cisco and these companies hired over 28, 000 veterans and are aggressively involved in cloud-based hiring platforms and Cisco certification education.
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With applications freed from legacy server environments, cloud-based collaboration platforms can more easily roll out mobile app versions of enterprise apps, while also adding in hooks for various types of social networking.
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Of course there are tradeoffs when you leverage different platforms, and cloud computing is no different.
Verizon Enterprise Solutions is a global sales and marketing organization that harnesses all of Verizon's cloud, mobility and other platforms to serve the rapidly transforming enterprise market with integrated solutions.
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But now throw into this mix the additional identity silos introduced with new cloud and mobile and social platforms, and it becomes even more difficult to ensure critical IT compliance and security tasks such as de-provisioning user access, running compliance reports and managing privileged user access are easily and fully implemented.
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They offer several different approaches to integrating collaborative capabilities into the IT infrastructure: standalone on-premise application platforms, remote or cloud-based hosted applications, components that integrate directly into other enterprise tools or those that integrate into enterprise portals and web sites.
Companies who prioritize developing mobile computing for the cloud and provide compelling experiences across multiple platforms will be at the forefront of the mobile tidal wave.
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