Cloud adoption has been one of the most trending topic for everyone – right from Enterprises to ISV to Individual. The rate of changes/innovation happening on cloud has left many wondering with multiple options but very little insight on how to decide the correct option. In this blog we will look in to some of [...]
Six Considerations in moving your application to Cloud
Moving an application to cloud can be as simple as a click of a button but at times can also go to the extent of re-developing your application. There are several factors that could influence the cloud migration strategy. Let us take a look at the various aspects one should consider while migrating their application [...]
AWS Cool Feature : Cloud Formation
Any real time application is going to require more than 1 resource for its operation – for example a web application may require loadbalanced webservers, application server and a database server. Whenever you are going to deploy this application you need to manage all these resources separately. Imagine a case where there is a need [...]
Big Data in Cloud – Problem and Solution
Big Data is a term used to refer huge volumes of data that belong to one logical entity. The volumes we are talking here is something that commonly used softwares/systems are generally not capable of handling within accepted time limits. There is no specific limit/range for the size of a single big data set. However, [...]
PaaS – Points to Ponder
Cloud is a magic wand that everybody wants to consider to cut down their cost. Cloud itself is a bigger umbrella and there are many many options available inside it. One popular choices available within cloud is PaaS. While many of the decision criteria to chose a PaaS over other choices is strategical, architectural aspects [...]
Single Tenant Vs. Multi Tenant – From a Business Perspective
You must have come across umpteen articles that talks about the technical aspects between a single tenant model and multi tenant model. But the fact is that the decision between single tenant and multi tenant is a strategic one and is often decided by the business factors rather than the technical factors. However, some of [...]
SaaS – Outlook for ISVs
Moving to on-demand versions definitely makes sense irrespective of what some of the billion dollar companies think. On the ground, what does it mean for the ISVs to transition to on-demand versions. It primarily means moving away from Perpetual licensing model to on-demand model. Does this mean only a change in the delivery model? It [...]
Why Multi-Tenancy makes sense for BPO Applications?
Many would know that multi-tenancy is an architectural pattern where a single installation of the software can serve multiple tenants. The term multi-tenancy has been used widely in the space of SaaS and in fact whether or not multitenancy is required is the first decision point in a SaaS architecture. But one of the common [...]
Cloud – “Think Out Of The Box”
This phrase is very true in the case of cloud. So long when architects design an application they always think about the resource availability in a given (hosted server or a cluster of servers) scaled out scenario. Cloud totally breaks this paradigm and allows one to think about server itself as an available resource in [...]
Understanding the Cloud – Part 2 – Intro to PaaS
In the first part I discussed about IaaS – highlights and challenges. In this part I will try to do the same for PaaS. Platform as a Service – PaaS, offers all the benefits of IaaS and much more. If you recollect the mapping we saw in the first part, PaaS maps to the Framework [...]