Whether or not you choose to spread your application stack across server instances, I highly recommend you put no more than one application per cloud server unless you have special circumstances in play. For example, if you value performance far more than scalability, you might want to collocate applications that communicate frequently to avoid network overhead. In most cases, you’ll be better off splitting them up.
Read More »What an exciting time it is for the open source software community!
Cloud technology is evolving faster than we can read about it. Marketplaces are now part of our common vernacular. The ever changing world that we live in, and these advancements in technology, are providing the open source software community with infinite opportunities to showcase creativity to the world.
I have highlighted 3 of the more recognizable, and recently launched marketplaces, that speak to this opportunistic time for open source software contributors and users.
Read More »BROOMFIELD, Colo. April 20th 2012—OpenLogic, Inc., provider of enterprise open source solutions for the data center and the cloud, today announced that its open platform as a service, CloudSwing, is now available on AWS Marketplace. OpenLogic CloudSwing is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides complete choice around infrastructure, components and programming languages. In addition, CloudSwing provides easy configuration, cost tracking, application monitoring and enhanced enterprise grade security for public or private clouds.
Read More »Pin It Open Source Management: Dealing with New OSS Releases The first quarter of this year has be a busy time in open source management. JBoss has had two releases in the 7.1 series, the Apache web server has had two releases in the 2.4 series and Ruby on Rails has had two releases in [...]
Read More »Open Source Software Management: A Review of Wazi Articles
The 5 most recent articles published on http://olex.openlogic.com/wazi/
Your choice of public vs. private cloud and IaaS vs. PaaS providers can have a dramatic impact on your ability to support your open source-based applications in a 24×7 production environment.
Read More »Posted by Kim Weins on March 16th, 2012 in Governance, Legal & Compliance, Open Source Trends, Scanning & Provisioning, Support, The Cloud
Open source management is increasingly becoming an important point of discussion as today’s companies are using open source software more widely in their IT infrastructure. So much so that Gartner expects open source to make up 30% of enterprise IT portfolios in 2012.
Open source software can provide both cost and innovation benefits, but in order to user OSS successfully, companies must have an open source management capability. OpenLogic defines four stages of Open Source Maturity that measure your company’s open source management capability.
The four stages are: Prevent, Manage, Promote and Transform:
Read More »As you almost certainly know by now, the world is chock full of cloud providers. Hundreds of them. Which should you choose if you’re just getting started and why?
Like most “which technology should I use?” questions, this one has the typical answer, “it depends.” If you only want to use or “rent” somebody else’s software for maximum convenience, you want a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution. Now that the easy answer is out of the way, let’s get down to business.
IaaS or PaaS?
At first blush, it seems like a simple question: Do you want direct access to the infrastructure (e.g., virtual machines) or do you only need access to abstractions (e.g., API’s)? Ideally, you’d want both. Sometimes you want the convenience of pre-built, hosted, scalable services such as storage (think Amazon’s S3), but other times you’d like the complete flexibility of having root access to a virtual machine under your control. I expect most enterprise developers and IT folks will agree. We want the best of all worlds and we have a hard time giving up control to a pure PaaS provider. This stance tends to rule out options like Google App Engine, Heroku, and others that look like a black box from the outside and put significant restrictions on the programming languages, application frameworks, databases, and other technologies you can deploy on them.
Read More »Big Data seems to be the word of the year. Everywhere you look there is Big Data staring you in the face: Blogs dedicated to discussing Big Data; LinkedIn groups with over 10,000 members focusing on Big Data topics. Just under 15,000 times each month, the exact phrase Big Data, is entered into the search engines of people across the world.
Wikipedia begins to describe Big Data as datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Because there is so much content being created at speeds we have never before seen, there is this preconceived notion that in order to be as efficient and productive and intuitive as we all want to be, Big Data needs to be addressed to some degree or another.
Read More »Cloud computing has forever changed enterprise IT. As enterprises turn to the cloud, they find open source software plays a central role in cloud-based services and in the infrastructure of the cloud itself. The use of open source in the cloud brings with it questions and challenges in the area of open source license compliance – many not raised by traditional uses of open source.
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