For internal and external applications, Web APIs provide flexibility and unlock the value of your data and software. However, ongoing API development, deployment and delivery require extensive domain knowledge in operating an enterprise-class infrastructure. Without this expertise, scalability, reliability, and security...
Published: Aug 01, 2013
One of the oft-stated promises of cloud-based applications is more up-time, more application availability than those deployed via on-premises servers. Some might take the statement at face value; others may question it. I’d like to make the argument that both sides are right.
Published: Apr 29, 2013
From online merchants, vendors and suppliers to high street retailers, media and even manufacturers seeking a direct channel, organisations are putting a multi-channel strategy at the core of their business.
As business evolves, technology increasingly holds the key to keeping the customer satisfied, to controlling...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
Done right, a cloud delivers strategic advantages to your business by redirecting resources from just maintaining the status quo to innovation. But only an open cloud delivers on the full strategic business value and promise of cloud computing.
Read this joint Gartner and Red Hat paper to learn how you can build an...
Published: Nov 07, 2013
Notonthehighstreet.com moved to Rackspace several years ago. They selected Rackspace based on its reputation for excellence and support, and the partnership has continued to develop as the company has grown and evolved.
Published: Apr 17, 2014
This research provides user organizations' CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, integration competency center/service oriented architecture (SOA) center-of-excellence (COE) managers, B2B integration managers and project leaders, as well as IT providers' planners, with an analysis of the evolution, adoption trends...
Published: May 22, 2013
Activity on the Race for Life website is cyclical as publicity builds ahead of each summer’s events. As a result, the charity’s websites are faced with a spike in activity, placing pressure on a hosting resource that was coming to the end of life. “It became clear with the success of fundraising activities...
Published: May 22, 2014
Most companies would rather not continue indefinitely diverting resources into software systems or adding costly IT resources.
That’s why ERP systems that use a cloud, or Software as a Service (SaaS), delivery model are great choices.
The cloud solution providers handle the maintenance and management of...
Published: Feb 26, 2014
A key technical underpinning of the Cloud is the Application Programming Interface (API). APIs provide consistent methods for outside entities such as web services clients and desktop applications to interface with services in the Cloud.
More and more, it will be through APIs that cloud data moves; however, the security...
Published: Aug 21, 2014
Find out how a large enterprise data warehouse company used Red Hat CloudForms to create a private cloud that including automated provisioning and self service for developers and testers, enabling them to build, test, and release new product versions faster. This reduced the time to market for new versions of the company’s...
Published: Jan 09, 2014
In this interview, IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) executives Man Bui, Ben Morehead and Warren Sirota discuss today’s disaster recovery challenges and how cloud computing can help overcome them. They also share their insights on cloud’s abilities to help recover IT operations more quickly,...
Published: Oct 14, 2014
Bursting with HP CloudSystem lets you tap additional resources as you need them—perhaps because you need more processing power to deal with a sudden spike in demand, or maybe because of specialized requirements such as keeping a particular workload secure or within a certain geographic area.
Bursting through...
Published: Jul 14, 2014
Oracle ERP systems are often the most critical IT applications an organization has. Any missteps in administration or hardware configuration can be very costly to a business. Given the complexity of the tasks they perform, the Oracle applications require the correct hardware configuration in addition to specialized expertise...
Published: Sep 04, 2014
Enterprise customers require cloud computing solutions that allow them to quickly scale and flex deployments of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS) service models.
As part of HP’s Converged Cloud, HP CloudSystem enables enterprises and service providers...
Published: Jul 26, 2013