Thoughtsoncloud - thoughtsoncloud.com - Thoughts On Cloud
General Information:
Latest News:
Why you need application testing in the cloud 26 Aug 2013 | 04:03 pm
Twenty years ago, when I was a programmer, the majority of applications were running on client/server architecture. The data was tightly coupled with applications in a client/server model. When I test...
Why move to SaaS (software as a service)? 23 Aug 2013 | 10:40 am
Software as a service (SaaS) has an image problem. I hear it all the time: SaaS is great, but we’ve been doing that since the 80s. It’s just client-server. We already run our other stuff behind the fi...
How to explain cloud to your spouse – Part 2 22 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
For those of you that have been following this site for several months, you may have come across my previous blog post: How to explain cloud to your spouse. When I wrote it, I thought it was just a s...
What is OpenStack? 21 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
We all agree that security and standards are the top two key elements for any kind of software and hardware deployments, including the ones based on cloud computing technologies. There are innumerabl...
Cloud computing is not a trap 20 Aug 2013 | 02:16 pm
I was reminded of an article from a few years ago where Richard Stallman, free software proponent, claimed that the “cloud was a trap!” Further comments in the article made suggestions that it would ...
Metadata, scanning and security in the cloud 19 Aug 2013 | 10:12 am
Systems are always susceptible to scanning—this is the reality of the information age. We are all public and global citizens, and our data transcends geographies, so it is our responsibility to use sy...
Cloud modernization approach – Part Two 16 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
In part one, we discussed the assessment model of the current IT infrastructure and IT environment such as the type of hardware been used, software stack, their current software level and various netw...
Cloud modernization approach – Part One 15 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
[co-authored by Debasis Roy Choudhuri] This blog series focuses on how to modernize the IT environment of an organization in a methodical way. Part one covers the introduction and an assessment appro...
IBM Smarter Cities Cloud in China – Part Two 14 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
In part one of this series, I introduced two major components of Smarter Cities Cloud: Cloud Platform and Smarter City Applications. Now let’s have a look how it works. The benefit to the Smarter Cit...
IBM Smarter Cities Cloud in China – Part One 13 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
As the IBM Smarter City campaign emerged in 2010, the IBM software team in China was looking to expand to the tier two cities within the country. Normally, these tier two cities have a very weak IT i...
