Jason Bloomberg

Combine the supercharged Cloud Computing marketplace with the ubergeek cred of the open source movement, and you’re bound to have some Mentos-in-Diet-Coke moments. Such is the case with today’s Cloud Service Orchestration (CSO) platforms. At this moment in time, the leading CSO platform is OpenStack. Dozens of vendors and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) have piled on this effort, from Rackspace to HP to Dell, and most recently, IBM has announced that they’re going all in as well. Fizzy to be sure, but all Coke, no Mentos. Then there are CloudStack, Eucalyptus, and a few other OpenStack competitors. With all the momentum of OpenStack, it might seem that these open source alternatives are little more than also-rans, doomed to drop further and further behind the burgeoning leader. But there’s more to this story. This is no techie my-open-source-is-better-than-your-open... (more)

LZA SOA Training & Certification: Sydney — September 10 – 13, 2013

LZA SOA Training & Certification: Sydney — September 10 – 13, 2013 Tuesday September 10, 2013-Friday September 13, 2013 Navitas Building (over Wynyrd Station) 11 York St Sydney Australia Price: A$2,495.00 (including $500 early discount) [converted to 2441.67 USD] ZapThink SOA Training & Certification: The Leading Vendor Independent, Architect-Focused SOA Training ZapThink’s Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) SOA Training & Certification Boot Camp is recognized around the world as the best single Service-Oriented Architecture training course available anywhere. The LZA SOA Boot Camp is... (more)

The Big Data Bottleneck: Uploading to the Cloud

The problem with Big Data is that, well, Big Data are big. Really big. We’re talking terabytes. Petabytes. Zettabytes. Whatever’s-even-bigger-bytes. And of course, we want to solve all our Big Data challenges in the Cloud. If only we could get those gigando-bytes into the Cloud in the first place. And there’s the rub. Uploading Big Data from our internal network to the Cloud via an Internet connection is as practical as filling a swimming pool through a drinking straw. It doesn’t matter how sophisticated our Big Data analytics, how super-duper our Hadoopers. If we can’t efficien... (more)

New life for enterprise service buses in the cloud

Eventually, both ESBs and API management will be subsumed into Integration as a Service offerings, ZapThink’s Jason Bloomberg predicts. Read the entire article at http://www.zdnet.com/new-life-for-enterprise-service-buses-in-the-cloud-7000016804/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539. ... (more)

BASE Jumping in the Cloud

As any data specialist will tell you, there are always performance vs. flexibility trade-offs in the world of data. Every generation of technology suffers from this trade-off, and the Cloud is no different. What is different about the Cloud is that we want virtualization-based elasticity—which requires partition tolerance. Read the entire post at http://www.tdan.com/view-articles/16969. ... (more)