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Why Google Cloud acquired Apigee API Platform ?

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google-apigee-cloudGoogle Cloud Platform business unit acquired Apigee, a provider of application programming interface. Apigee provides an API platform that can be used by companies to make their services available on multiple mobile devices. Apigee also provides its customers analytics to measure the activity coming from the apps. As an example, Walgreens uses Apigee to manage the Walgreens APIs that developers use to build apps for the Walgreens ecosystem.

This enhances Google’s push into corporate computing as they look to take advantage of the evolving industry dynamics. Google’s head of cloud computing Diane Greene stated as follows

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Advent & Rise of Flash Storage in Enterprise Computing

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Rise of Flash StorageThe advent of multi-core processors has also provided a big boost to deeper penetration of server virtualization in the data center. For example, a 4-core processor based server can now host four virtual machines on the same physical server – one on each core – thus consolidating four workloads that were running on four different physical servers onto one physical server.

The key implication of this development is that each physical server is clearly processing more data and generating orders of magnitude higher network traffic than in the past. Diskbased storage with sequential read-write is inadequate to extract data out of these servers fast enough creating a data supply problem on the server. NAND Flash-based Storage, which allows random read-write and hence offers an order of magnitude improvement in Storage performance in terms of IOPS

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How Big 3 Cloud Computing Platforms – AWS / Azure / Google are Stacked Up Against each Other ?

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AWS Comparison with Azure GoogleEvery industry / vertical has Big 3 companies like we have seen in the past from Automobiles to Software. When it comes to offering Cloud platform, Amazon leads the pack with AWS, Microsoft’s Azure is a distant second and Google is the clear #3. Time to Market and Investments helped Amazon launch Amazon Web Services in 2006 versus Azure and Google Cloud Platform coming on in 2010 and 2013 and Microsoft having since committed more heavily in the space than Google.

The path each company took is different as each player has borrowed from heritage and experience earned from their principal operations to establish their position in the cloud computing landscape. AWS is leveraging its massive scale and commitment

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How Enterprise Workload is Moving to Public Cloud ?

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Enterprise IT Moving to CloudWe believe Enterprise data center workload will continue a steady migration to the Public Cloud because the Public Cloud is more efficient, agile, elastic and is pay-as-you-go, and business users expect these characteristics from their IT infrastructure

Non-mission-critical workload in the Enterprise and SMB workload in general has been moving to the Public Cloud at a steady trickle over the past few years. While the wholesale embrace of the public cloud to run all workloads is still not very common in our view. We expect Enterprises to continue scrutinizing their data center workloads to identify more non-core and temporary workloads that can be moved to

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How Private Cloud Differs from Traditional on-premise Computing ?

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Private Cloud vs Traditional HardwareMany users describe private cloud as having an Amazon AWS-like environment within their own data center. This is where software developers/engineers can easily and quickly request and receive application infrastructure, just like they can on Amazon AWS. The difference is that the underlying servers, storage and network is wholly owned and dedicated to the organization instead of rented through AWS or other public cloud vendors. A private cloud can be within the organization’s own physical data center or owned, dedicated (not shared like public cloud) and managed by a third party.

Compared to a traditional computing infrastructure, private clouds require five main components: IaaS software

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Microsoft Azure Cloud – Too Late & Shrinking Developer Eco-System

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Azure Cloud Late Entrant Microsoft is spending significant time talking about the transition from on-premises to cloud in its business. As part of this, the question is how much demand for the cloud products is transition of existing workloads vs. the building of new workloads. We believe the answer is relatively simple, with Office365 largely being existing workload migration while Azure is new workloads.

The debate in our view is how

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Corporates Spending on CRM & Talent Management

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CRM and Talent Management AppsCorporates Insight suggest customer (CRM) and employee-facing apps (esp HCM / talent management) remain at the forefront of application spend and we see broad based evidence of better demand. Inputs suggest financials, manufacturing and supply chain are not moving to cloud. The three largest traditional apps vendors (Oracle, SAP and Informatica) are now all paying reps neutrally for SaaS vs. perpetual license. We expect this will have the inevitable impact of driving more core apps business to SaaS.

System Integrators (SIs) and customers suggest that with customer and employee-facing apps being the focus, UI and mobility are increasing priorities,

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List of All the IaaS from Amazon Web Services(AWS) Cloud Computing

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List of All Amazon Web Service Cloud OfferingsAmazon has pioneered Cloud computing by bringing infrastructure-as-a-service on a global scale to emerging start-ups, corporate enterprises and the public sector. Historically, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provided application developers with access to an innovative IT infrastructure platform on an as needed (or for rent) basis. Amazon’s offerings have expanded in both the infrastructure-as-a-service (Amazon Cloud Compute or EC2) and platform-as-a-service (more value-added applications/features) categories.

For a new project that we’ve undertaken we are going to use Amazon Cloud Offering and during the feasibility research we listed all the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offered by Amazon Web Services for Scalable Cloud Computing and here we are sharing the same with our readers as

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Oracle CloudWorld Mumbai – Key Excerpts

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Here are the key excerpts from the Oracle CloudWorld held in Mumbai,

Cloud based applications in Human Capital Management (HCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) are being widely accepted by clients, which is driving the growth in cloud-based applications. On the other hand, onpremise applications continue to dominate the ERP market, due to data security issues. ERP has a larger market share in the package implementation market.

Incrementally, larger organisations are opening up to cloud offerings, particularly in HCM and CRM. Cloud-based applications are more standardised and they offer a relatively lower scope for customisation as compared to on-premises applications. Earlier, large organisations were less flexible in adopting customised applications, but incrementally, they are adopting standardised solutions with some minor customisations.

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How Cloud Computing is Changing the IT Outsourcing Business Model ?

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There has been an increased importance to Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). These have been regarded as disruptive changes in the way technology services are delivered.

Will cloud computing make the traditional outsourcing irrelevant?
Although cloud computing has a disruptive impact on traditional outsourcing, it would not make traditional outsourcing completely irrelevant. Cloud-based offerings are standardised and meant for large number of audiences. Large corporations have their individual requirements that need a customised solution and they also remain skeptical of security issues in public cloud computing. Application Development and Maintenance work is likely to remain relevant for such firms. However, non-core functions, such as Human Resource Management (HRM), have been increasingly moved to cloud.

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