WheneveR IT

Well, it is so long time that I'm using social networks, the 1st one was Orkut four years ago and a year ago I started using Facebook. I don't want compare them, my subject is something else, but as a personal opinion Facebook is really great invention as everybody knows it.
It's about three days that I've felt in a large bunch of these networks and my huge interest to join them and test them.
I tested about 5 of them in just one day. The great things here are the APIs which connect all of them together, even your Yahoo!, Google, AOL and etc. This is why I inserted '++' in the Title.

You know, this is the Cloud. A social cloud which everybody can use in his own method, Social or Professional.

Cloud or Unite ??

2010-03-16T19:22:00.000+03:30

Mmmmm....

3 Weeks ago one of my teachers, Mr.Bahrepour, told me about Unite. A new technology which Opera has brought it on. Then my curiosity started.  :D

As I read in Opera FAQ this technology shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web.

In Unite each computer become a server and also the client too. There, you can share anything that you want such as photos, notes, videos, applications and streaming MP3s and chatting or managing a conference too. It means that there is no need of uploading anything in an outer server and wasting the time to do so.

But the weakness here is that the server computer should be on and connected to the Internet. For example, I've shared one of my photos, as that's in my system's HDD, if somebody wanna see the photo, my computer has to be on.

I think Cloud is better again.

What do you Think ???

Cloudy World

2010-02-08T14:24:00.000+03:30

Hi.

As I was web-surfing I found that there are some EXPOs which are held specially for Cloud Computing around the world like what was in Santa Clara.

I found it a nice way to introduce and inform the society and public about Cloud Computing and letting them to know the benefits of C2. I think if they everyone knows the great values of C2 it would make kind of a great deal that will help Clod Computing to grow faster than before and profits everybody.

Here it's the duty of IT Pros. to consider this important thing and start public work.

Also publishing simple Docs. and articles will help a lot.

I think in order of doing so, the 1st point to recognize is organizing the Goals. Means what we want from Cloud Computing and what are the goals that we should introduce. Then managing how the process should be started and continue and what are our plans . . . And then what are our needs.

I think the main requirement is just Brainstorm, which will lead to everything we want.

I am counting the days for living in Cloudy World.
And the World goes On and on . . .

Microsof Cloud Os, Azure, reaches general availability stage.

2010-02-03T02:27:00.003+03:30

Hi.
Finally, I've finished my term exams and ready to start blogging again. And it's about Azure, its 1st show up and and its general availability stage now.
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First Show Up of Azure

For the 1st time, in October 28th, Microsoft launched Windows Azure for Cloud at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
As what they discussed there, Azure is a platform for developers, Windows Azure plays host to the .Net Framework, SQL Server, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, and an offering called Live Services, which, according to Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, will extend Azure services "outward" to connect with locally running Microsoft software. Using this rich environment, developers will be able to build and deploy Web applications and services running on Microsoft's worldwide infrastructure of datacenters.
Windows Azure "is a scalable hosting environment for you to deploy your apps in our cloud," said Microsoft corporate vice president Amitabh Srivastava, one of the key players behind the platform.

"Windows Azure is a new Windows offering at the Web tier of computing," Ozzie said. "This represents a significant extension" of the Windows computing platform, he said.

Windows Azure serves as the underlying foundation of the Azure Services Platform, which helps developers build applications spanning from the cloud to the datacenter and PCs, the Web, and phones, Microsoft said.

Cloud-based developer capabilities are combined with storage, computational, and network infrastructure services. A limited Community Technology Preview of the Azure Services Platform is being made available at PDC. A road map for Azure is set to be revealed in 2009.

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Key components of Azure Services Platform include the following:

-- Windows Azure, for service hosting and management and low-level scalable storage, computation, and networking.
-- Microsoft SQL Services, for database services and reporting.
-- Microsoft .Net Services, which are service-based implementations of .Net Framework concepts such as workflow. .Net Services previously was called BizTalk Services. "The services themselves, we found, were actually more identifiable to the .Net community than BizTalk," said Steve Martin, Microsoft senior product management director in the company’s Connected Systems Division.
-- Live Services, for sharing, storing, and synchronizing documents, photos, and files across PCs, phones, PC applications, and Web sites.
-- Microsoft SharePoint Services and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Services for business content, collaboration, and solution development in the cloud.

Azure was compared to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) services platform by a PDC attendee interviewed after the morning presentations.

"I think it's certainly Microsoft's answer to Amazon's EC2 platform," said Joshua Lane, software developer at InRule Technology. "Amazon just announced that they’re going to be able to host Windows in the cloud and that sort of thing so this is Microsoft's answer to that."

Another attendee, Suhas Mallya, data architect at Aztecsoft, said Azure "looks impressive."

"First of all, it builds on something that people are already familiar with," the Windows platform, said Mallya.

He did add it was a little too early to determine whether Microsoft can succeed with Azure. "I found the demos a little slow," Mallya said.

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General Availability Stage of Azure

Windows Azure, Microsoft's public cloud computing platform, became generally available in 21 countries on Monday, Microsoft bloggers said. SQL Azure, offering cloud-based relational database capabilities, also became available.
"Since January 2010, thousands of customers have moved from CTP to production and partners like Origin Digital, GXS, tradefacilitate and 3M are actively building and deploying solutions to the Windows Azure platform. Starting today, they, along with all of our partners, will be able to begin selling their solutions to their customers, ultimately enabling them to reach new markets and increase their revenue," the Azure blog said.
Customers who have not yet upgraded Windows Azure CTP accounts to paid commercial subscriptions will have service disabled and their data on Windows Azure Storage will be made read-only. SQL Azure CTP customers who have not yet upgraded can keep using existing databases but cannot create new ones. On March 1, SQL Azure CTP accounts that have not been upgraded will be deleted. Windows Azure Storage CTP accounts that have not been upgraded will be deleted on April 1.
Windows Azure features compute, storage, hosting, and management capabilities.The platform has been available in a Community Technology Preview phase. As of 12 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time on Feb. 2, Microsoft begins charging for Azure, the Azure Team blog said.

Microsoft eBook about Cloud Computing

2010-01-16T00:47:00.000+03:30

Hi.
About two days ago, one of my best friends, Amin Gholami, suggested me a link from Microsoft e-Book Center which was referring to an e-Book of Cloud Computing.
I read and found it interesting. It's about basics of C2 and what Microsoft has described it.
Its Contents are :
- An Industry Shift Toward Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Basics
- Emerging Industry Terminology
- Is Cloud Computing Right For My Business
- Core Issues To Consider
- The Unique Microsoft Approach To Cloud Computing
- Conclusion

2 key points which caught my eyes the most in the article are :

- Cost Savings of C2 depends on how we manage it, also it may add more costs to our business.

- One of the Concerns about C2 is the security, because sometimes we are sending information to a third party.

https://www.microsoft.com/business/mycenter/library/cloud-computing.aspx

* Remember you need SilverLight view this page.

What are Gartner predictions for IT ?

2010-01-14T02:06:00.000+03:30

Gartner, Inc. has highlighted the key predictions that herald long-term changes in approach for IT organizations and the people they serve for 2010 and beyond. Gartner's top predictions for 2010 showcase the trends and events that will change the nature of business today and beyond.
The Research indicates that 20 percent of businesses will dump all assets of IT.
By the shift of companies toward Cloud Computing and its services, there should be a great decrease in the need of staffs and also great hardware which lead to shrinkage of costs.
But it's not just Cloud Computing that is driving a movement toward "decrease IT hardware assets". Also Virtualization and employees using personal desktops and laptops reduce the need for company-owned hardware.
The report doesn't say exactly how a world in which 20 percent of IT organizations own no hardware will be able to deal with rapidly growing data storage needs. IDC has found that the amount of digital information created and replicated worldwide is growing at 60 percent each year, so presumably cloud-based storage services will help the IT world cope with this problem.

And a few more of key predictions by Gartner, Inc :

- The leader of Social Networking will be Facebook by 2012.

- By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.

- In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC's total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.

- By 2015, more than $250 billion will be spending Worldwide in Internet Marketing.

- Mobile Phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web Access device in 2013.

* At all, I think the shrinkage in the costs is the greatest benefit of Cloud Computing. Because, therefore we can divide the remained budget in more programs. Or also it could be used for public works or advertising. Wherever we use the remained budget, is better than spending it for storage or the salary of overplus employees.

What do YOU think ?

Future of Cloud Computing in 2010

2010-01-12T15:43:00.001+03:30

Hi.
I was thinking that how long would Cloud Computing go. What do You think? As I'm surfing webs and reading news about all over the world, mostly America and Europe and also East Asian countries such as Japan or Korea, are working more on C2.
Even in Iran it has became kind of a concern to start Cloud Computing as what I'm trying to know how.
Here I mention some of my predictions and my researches in the Web about Cloud computing in the new year, 2010 .

1. Next Generation Cloud Applications Emerge:
Well,as I know, SaaS (Software as a Service) is aged about 10 years and the applications were built in the static web tend to have a stilted user experience. But new applications will be more interactive and more user-friendly.Also there maybe be offline Cloud Applications as what Google has mentioned about Chrome, that there will be offline OS after 1st results and releases. New applications will use true and real elasticity which many Saas Apps. still cannot offer.

2. Business Applications Get Social:
It's all ready happening that the major technologies of the year - Cloud Computing and Social Media - are getting the World Business in their hands. I can mention some great companies such as Salesforce and the Oracle CRM which are became more social. Also with the expanded coverage of Facebook,Twitter,Digg and etc. advertising and commercials are getting more social and in touch.

3. More Standards for Cloud Computing:
Two days ago I read about it in InfoWorld that Vint Cerf one of the desigers of TCP/IP protocols, emphasize on the need of some standards for Data Portability in the Cloud. As he said, for example in transfering data form Cloud A to Cloud B, there should be some standards that specify the format of Data and how the transfer should be processed.

4. What do you think ? :D

C2 1st Lunch !!!

2010-01-10T15:22:00.002+03:30

mmm...
Well...Today me and my best friend Sadegh Jebelli,also my co-presenter in Cloud Computing,gathered in lunch and made a discussion about our project...
We decided to distribute and use cloud Computing in VSAT technology.

As Mr.Jebelli Mentioned in his IT-Cloud blog , VSAT a is kind of tiny terminal with lots of uses such as what is used in Banking Connections.
For more please take a look at his blog.
www.IT-CLOUD.blogspot.com

ThanX a lot.

How Cloud Computing Works

2010-01-10T02:49:00.000+03:30

Let's say you're an executive at a large corporation. Your particular responsibilities include making sure that all of your employees have the right hardware and software they need to do their jobs. Buying computers for everyone isn't enough -- you also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they require. Whenever you have a new hire, you have to buy more software or make sure your current software license allows another user. It's so stressful that you find it difficult to go to sleep on your huge pile of money every night.

A typical cloud computing system

Soon, there may be an alternative for executives like you. Instead of installing a suite of software for each computer, you'd only have to load one application. That application would allow workers to log into a Web-based service which hosts all the programs the user would need for his or her job. Remote machines owned by another company would run everything from e-mail to word processing to complex data analysis programs. It's called cloud computing, and it could change the entire computer industry.

I Computed Lonely As A Cloud
Although cloud computing is an emerging field of computer science, the idea has been around for a few years. It's called cloud computing because the data and applications exist on a "cloud" of Web servers.

In a cloud computing system, there's a significant workload shift. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them instead. Hardware and software demands on the user's side decrease. The only thing the user's computer needs to be able to run is the cloud computing system's interface software, which can be as simple as a Web browser, and the cloud's network takes care of the rest.
There's a good chance you've already used some form of cloud computing. If you have an e-mail account with a Web-based e-mail service like Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail, then you've had some experience with cloud computing. Instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The software and storage for your account doesn't exist on your computer -- it's on the service's computer cloud.

What Cloud Computing Lets You . . .

2010-01-10T00:29:00.001+03:30

- Tap into supercomputing power from large
groups of networked servers via the Web.

- Pay for space and storage on an as-needed basis.

- Build and host applications in a secure
environment.

- Stop relying on desktop PCs for networking and
complex data processing and analysis.

- Increase network availability and security while
reducing total cost of ownership.

- Reduce barriers to exit and interoperability with
open source software, open standard and open
systems.

Plus, an Open Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) interface allows the exposure of loosely coupled services, making accessing and integrating with the cloud a seamless operation as an extension of your applications and IT infrastructure.

What cloud computing really means . . .

2010-01-10T00:25:00.005+03:30

Cloud computing is all the rage. "It's become the phrase du jour," says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition.

As a metaphor for the Internet, "the cloud" is a familiar cliché, but when combined with "computing," the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing.

Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT's existing capabilities.

Cloud computing is at an early stage, with a motley crew of providers large and small delivering a slew of cloud-based services, from full-blown applications to storage services to spam filtering. Yes, utility-style infrastructure providers are part of the mix, but so are SaaS (software as a service) providers such as Salesforce.com. Today, for the most part, IT must plug into cloud-based services individually, but cloud computing aggregators and integrators are already emerging.

WheneveR talked to dozens of vendors, analysts, and IT customers to tease out the various components of cloud computing. Based on those discussions, here's a rough breakdown of what cloud computing is all about: ...

1. SaaS : This type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting. Salesforce.com is by far the best-known example among enterprise applications, but SaaS is also common for HR apps and has even worked its way up the food chain to ERP, with players such as Workday. And who could have predicted the sudden rise of SaaS "desktop" applications, such as Google Apps and Zoho Office?

2. Utility computing : The idea is not new, but this form of cloud computing is getting new life from Amazon.com, Sun, IBM, and others who now offer storage and virtual servers that IT can access on demand. Early enterprise adopters mainly use utility computing for supplemental, non-mission-critical needs, but one day, they may replace parts of the datacenter. Other providers offer solutions that help IT create virtual datacenters from commodity servers, such as 3Tera's AppLogic and Cohesive Flexible Technologies' Elastic Server on Demand. Liquid Computing's LiquidQ offers similar capabilities, enabling IT to stitch together memory, I/O, storage, and computational capacity as a virtualized resource pool available over the network.

3. Web services in the cloud : Closely related to SaaS, Web service providers offer APIs that enable developers to exploit functionality over the Internet, rather than delivering full-blown applications. They range from providers offering discrete business services -- such as Strike Iron and Xignite -- to the full range of APIs offered by Google Maps, ADP payroll processing, the U.S. Postal Service, Bloomberg, and even conventional credit card processing services.

4. Platform as a service : Another SaaS variation, this form of cloud computing delivers development environments as a service. You build your own applications that run on the provider's infrastructure and are delivered to your users via the Internet from the provider's servers. Like Legos, these services are constrained by the vendor's design and capabilities, so you don't get complete freedom, but you do get predictability and pre-integration. Prime examples include Salesforce.com's Force.com, Coghead and the new Google App Engine. For extremely lightweight development, cloud-based mashup platforms abound, such as Yahoo Pipes or Dapper.net.

5. MSP (managed service providers) : One of the oldest forms of cloud computing, a managed service is basically an application exposed to IT rather than to end-users, such as a virus scanning service for e-mail or an application monitoring service (which Mercury, among others, provides). Managed security services delivered by SecureWorks, IBM, and Verizon fall into this category, as do such cloud-based anti-spam services as Postini, recently acquired by Google. Other offerings include desktop management services, such as those offered by CenterBeam or Everdream.

6. Service commerce platforms : A hybrid of SaaS and MSP, this cloud computing service offers a service hub that users interact with. They're most common in trading environments, such as expense management systems that allow users to order travel or secretarial services from a common platform that then coordinates the service delivery and pricing within the specifications set by the user. Think of it as an automated service bureau. Well-known examples include Rearden Commerce and Ariba.

7. Internet integration : The integration of cloud-based services is in its early days. OpSource, which mainly concerns itself with serving SaaS providers, recently introduced the OpSource Services Bus, which employs in-the-cloud integration technology from a little startup called Boomi. SaaS provider Workday recently acquired another player in this space, CapeClear, an ESB (enterprise service bus) provider that was edging toward b-to-b integration. Way ahead of its time, Grand Central -- which wanted to be a universal "bus in the cloud" to connect SaaS providers and provide integrated solutions to customers -- flamed out in 2005.
Today, with such cloud-based interconnection seldom in evidence, cloud computing might be more accurately described as "sky computing," with many isolated clouds of services which IT customers must plug into individually. On the other hand, as virtualization and SOA permeate the enterprise, the idea of loosely coupled services running on an agile, scalable infrastructure should eventually make every enterprise a node in the cloud. It's a long-running trend with a far-out horizon. But among big metatrends, cloud computing is the hardest one to argue with in the long term.

A weblog for IT...

2010-01-10T00:16:00.001+03:30

Hi everybody...
I started this weblog in order of publishing new posts about Information Technology and more specified about Cloud Computing .
Also I will try to mention new Technologies,product or gadgets and etc .
But as I said the goal is IT and Cloud Computing ...
I hope YOU will join and help me to improve the work by your useful comments.

Thanks a lot.