1. Background For the last several months, I was involved in designing, planning and setting up a few large cloud based infrastructure for transactions processing and real time content delivery. All these setups had a quite complex software architecture involving several dozen of inter-connected server instances, numerous commercial and private AMIs in each case. Now
Cloud computing has seen significant growth in the last few years. There is a clear boom in companies moving away from the dedicated data centers to public or cloud services. This trend is likely to grow even stronger in the coming months as more organizations find value in moving a part (or all) of their
Managing telecom operations is a complex endeavor as it involves managing many layers of complex systems designed to deal with business issues, technology equipment, and customer management. Besides, a telecom operator has to deal with retail customers, wholesale customers, resellers, partners, employees, contractors, installers and a myriad of equipment and service suppliers. Despite all this
It appears that traditional data center architecture built around the clusters of dedicated servers is now obsolete. In the last few years, increasing number of companies virtualized their data centers to support various in-house applications. However, virtualization which was the buzzword until recently is now simply being looked upon as a stepping stone to create
Big corporations in the US continue to lose critical and confidential information to unknown hackers at a very alarming rate. First, it was massive and embarrassing data breach at Sony Pictures and then it was soon followed by the equally damaging breach at Anthem Inc, a major insurer. They lost information of about 80 million
The cloud provides convenient, on-demand network access to a centralized pool of configurable computing resources such as such as computing servers, storage, networks, services, and applications that can be rapidly deployed with great efficiency and minimal management overhead. Although cloud computing presents tremendous benefits in terms cost and performance, security and privacy concerns remain the