Enterprise Strategies for Cloud-Aware Apps

Enterprise IT needs more applications designed for cloud in order to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Leveraging the unique benefits of the cloud requires a specialized approach to application architecture. The right design enables business agility, massive scaling, ability to burst, and high resiliency. Plus, it promotes… Continue reading Enterprise Strategies for Cloud-Aware Apps

Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions

Sahara provides a way to build Big Data as a Service on OpenStack, but there are many options and considerations. This presentation introduces our work on benchmarking various solutions, including VM vs. container vs bare-metal, HDFS vs. Swift, and a few others. This was conducted on latest Intel hardware platforms and will provide insights into… Continue reading Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions

Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!

The goal for both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry foundations is to build open source software and communities. The software is intended for public, private and managed clouds. Cloud Foundry is intended for a variety of IaaS including OpenStack. This Hands-on session will cover the basics of Cloud Foundry. We will discuss the motivation for a… Continue reading Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!