tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90410438024245945672024-02-07T09:55:58.887-08:00Infiflex - Infinite FlexibilityJust a blog !!Judehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127199787738379834noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041043802424594567.post-82270706682579505042015-03-12T03:13:00.001-07:002015-03-12T03:19:36.009-07:00SaaS : the biggest share of the cloud<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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you are reading this, your company either has cloud computing already, or you
and your team are considering it seriously. Today, cloud includes practically
every internet service that you are can purchase from a service provider. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or
service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the
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technologies that support </span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/Web-services"><span style="color: #00b3ac; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Web services</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> and service-oriented
architecture (</span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/service-oriented-architecture"><span style="color: #00b3ac; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">SOA</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">) mature and new developmental
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and </span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/definition/on-demand-computing"><span style="color: #00b3ac; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">on demand computing</span></a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> software delivery models. IDC
identifies two slightly different delivery models for SaaS. The <i>hosted
application management </i>(<i>hosted AM</i>) model is similar to ASP: a
provider hosts commercially available software for customers and delivers it
over the Web. In the <i>software on demand</i> model, the provider gives
customers network-based access to a single copy of an application created
specifically for SaaS distribution.</span></b></div>
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purchased for and installed on personal computers, is sometimes referred to
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Jude Mohantyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07475688259609976277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041043802424594567.post-1146480940917251302015-02-01T22:29:00.001-08:002015-02-01T22:29:54.974-08:00Cloud Computing: A blessing for small enterprises<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The penetration of information technology (IT) has,
perhaps, been the biggest blessing for small enterprises. Thanks to
easy-to-use, accessible and value-for-money technological breakthroughs in the
past two decades and more, smaller companies have access to facilities that
only bigger corporations boasted of until sometime ago. Now reaching a stage of
maturity in the market, cloud computing is one such aspect of IT. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deployment and maintenance of the technology, nor investing heavily in the
infrastructure either. Which means a small company, with limited resources, a
small team and little funding, can now concentrate on its core competency and
still manage to work as efficiently as a big industrial house. Here are some
more reasons for you to look at cloud more closely if you are a small
enterprise: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Opting for cloud means you can increase your resources when it is time to
scale-up, and rationalise them during lean period. Which means not having to
invest in infrastructure that might either lie idle, or realise you need to
spend more. Start-ups find it tougher to predict their needs, thus making cloud
a perfect option since you have the flexibility to choose big or small. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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choice</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">: From plain vanilla email services and accounting packages
to more in-depth solutions such as CRM, apps, and ERP, cloud offers a host of
choice for practically all industry sectors. Since the cost is usage-based, it
is financially feasible, too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You don’t have to set up an infrastructure, deploy an IT team for it or have a
maintenance schedule lined up. You are ready to move ahead almost as soon as
you have chosen your cloud service provider. It also means you and your team
can work from anywhere, thus taking the load off a start-up that might still
have its people work from home. Additionally, you don’t spend time taking
back-ups, upgrade versions and so on, thus cutting down significant amount of
time to focus on catering to the customer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The responsibility of protecting your data is that of your cloud service
provider, who is far more equipped to do just that. The service providers have
better security systems simply because it’s what they do – secure others’ data.
They invest in better systems, have the correct infrastructure for the same,
comply with best practices in security and have a well-trained staff for any
emergencies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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operational costs</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">: Contrary to what people believe
in, investing in cloud computing might cost the same as investing in individual
infrastructure in the long run. But cloud still<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a> wins
hands-down considering other factors as stated above. Access to software,
infrastructure or tech platform is already included in the service fee that is
to be paid to the service company, usually on a monthly basis. On the financial
front, it is the operating costs that are lower. These operational and overhead
costs are borne by the service provider. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jude Mohantyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07475688259609976277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041043802424594567.post-1748811571678148562014-12-18T21:24:00.001-08:002014-12-18T21:24:59.953-08:00Clearing the clouds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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information from knowledge is as crucial as differentiating myths from facts.
Cloud computing, which is fast approaching a mature stage in the market, is an area
where these are often confused. A number of myths surround the concepts or
cloud computing and, often, information is taken as knowledge by a prospective
cloud-seeker. The thumb rules: choose your cloud partner with care, do your
research about what you need and don’t be afraid to ask for information. Let’s
start with some of the myths about the concept and technology of cloud
computing:</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Cloud is for bigger companies/ Cloud is for smaller firms</b></span><span style="line-height: 19.2pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">: Cloud has evened the playing field to a large
extent among companies of different sizes, and its solutions cater to
enterprises of all sizes – macro, medium, micro and even cottage industry. Why,
smaller firms use cloud in the form of mail services such as Gmail and Hotmail,
which are both on cloud! For bigger companies, the host of services – platform
as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service
(IaaS) – offered by a number of cloud companies can offer a number of
solutions. It is up to you to choose the right fit.</span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN"><b>Cloud is the ultimate solution</b>:
This may seem like a contradiction of the above point, but it isn’t. Yes, cloud
computing has something to offer every enterprise and usually drives down
operation costs and increases efficiencies and productivity. But it can’t take
over every task that your IT department performs. Armed with proper information
and a reliable cloud computing partner, you have to figure it out on your own –
what can be done on a public cloud, which are the areas that can work better in
a private cloud and what are the data areas that you would rather have on
on-the-ground servers. </span></div>
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</b></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN"><b>Cloud isn’t safe</b>: This one of
the most common myth, nay fear that people have when they consider cloud
computing for their enterprise. But statistics reveal that more data has been
compromised with on-the-ground data centres than even public cloud. In fact,
there have been negligible cases of security breach in both public and private
clouds. And because cloud computing companies, whose core competency is data
management and security, know how crucial it is to keep your data safe, there’s
little reason to believe they will do something that will harm their own
reputation. Most reliable cloud service providers have a number of security
measures for data protection – be it dedicated firewalls, systems to detect any
intrusions, advanced encryption and several security standards. To ensure that
the market trusts them, several cloud companies also engage third-party
security audits. </span></div>
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computing companies. And while using cloud services costs less than having to
invest in and maintain a corresponding on-ground infrastructure and framework,
long-term use of cloud services slims down that advantage. You also need to
keep in mind that not all cloud computing services are becoming cheaper – SaaS,
for instance, costs the same as it did. Where cloud-based have a significant
edge, however, is that this isn’t just about the money you invest in the
beginning. How it helps money matters is that using cloud computing is more
cost efficient. For instance, you can easily scale-up or scale-down depending
on the magnitude of your operations. This option of increased or decreased use
of storage, infrastructure, software or platform is, perhaps, the biggest
advantage of cloud computing.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-IN">5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-IN"><b>I don’t need big data</b>: This is a line that is often given to a
cloud-based service provider when he/she makes a sales pitch. But enterprises need
to understand that the sooner they understand the importance of big data and
learn how to use it to maximum advantage, the more competitive it will make
them. With the increase in the volume of data that is being churned out by
enterprises on a daily level, which also needs to be store for future mining,
having easily-accessible storage solutions for this data is important. This is
an area cloud services help immensely; they not only help you store data but
make it accessible to it in real-time, no matter when and where you are. </span></div>
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Jude Mohantyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07475688259609976277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041043802424594567.post-36190398334841875802014-11-07T05:41:00.000-08:002014-11-07T05:42:46.748-08:00CRACKING THE CODE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It may be a relatively-new
technology, but cloud computing is fast changing the way we do business. The
days of cumbersome data centres and tech teams that were busy managing huge
amounts of data, taking back-ups, ensuring data security are on their way out. There
are technology companies that are doing all that and more, and leaving you to
deal with your core competency area. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Take, for instance,
companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, which are offering
these services in different forms –Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to
Platform as a Service (PaaS). Of these Amazon Web Services offers IaaS, while
Microsoft and Google offer IaaS as well as PaaS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Highly popular among these
is the Google App Engine, which offers PaaS, and gives you the immense freedom
to build and run applications on Google’s infrastructure. These App Engine
applications are not only easy to build and maintain but can be scaled up
according to the traffic and data. The Application Programming Interfaces
(APIs) are the perfect solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs) since
these businesses don’t have to invest in a server or manage it – you simply
upload your application and are ready to go! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Google App Engine
supports apps in Java, Python, PHP and Go and runs apps reliably despite large
data. These apps run in a secure environment, with the App Engine allowing
distribution requests across multiple servers with scaling-up options available
to meet heavy traffic or more data.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Having said that, however,
there are gaps and hurdles in the Google App Engine – or any other cloud
computing technology, for that matter. For instance, it falls upon the end-user
to learn Google App Engine’s infrastructure, its various APIs and build apps on
that. The Engine also has certain security measures built in, which make it
tougher for an average end-user to grasp easily. This results in the learning
curve becoming steeper and longer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As a result, more man-hours
are required since the development cycle is longer. Two, since the technology
is relatively new, getting the resources to pick up these technologies is
tougher. There is also a scarcity of professionals in the area since you need
more specialized and advanced developers for the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">More importantly, these are
new technologies and Google keeps updating its APIs frequently. As a result,
there is some part of the code that becomes obsolete and has to be upgraded
again. And herein lies the biggest gap – if the end users are maintaining their
own custom applications, they have to constantly monitor that part of their
code, too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Infiflex’s Giffy addresses
all these issues and more. A generic application, Giffy uses Google App
Engine’s APIs and with that framework, you can use customer applications, thus
making the learning curve relatively constant and significantly shorter<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>. Giffy resembles most of the current applications or
application frameworks. It gives the end-user the freedom to concentrate on the
specifics of her business rather than wondering how it is implemented. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Giffy from Infiflex makes it
easy to use different kinds of business processes. Most of the things in the
app are easy-to-use and understand, what with the click-and-select menu
options. What’s more, even the complicated configurations can be worked out by
developers with less than three years’ experience. The icing on the cake – all
this can be done without redeploying the application because the customizations
can be done at run-time. For more on how Giffy can be the answer to all your
Google App Engine questions, watch this space. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jude Mohantyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07475688259609976277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041043802424594567.post-62724843206658711642008-09-25T22:26:00.000-07:002009-12-20T07:19:35.804-08:00The UserAgentSince this is my first post I want to start of small by posting a java code snippet. This snippet helps in detecting which browser made the request at the server-side<br />
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<pre style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;border:1px dashed #CCCCCC;width:99%;height:auto;overflow:auto;background:#f0f0f0;;background-image:URL(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0i0L9k-Hko7XGRBRC_rbEJ13du6b2USuRC8Gt4ZzT4b4l_5KW2iTmeqADdLht5FQ0qPrcLIkWWO5rBRVl0nskMbTworPUaUhGYxaKEYAzHl57Az6YaLK8TBGwKXuhFAz_ToxPmhchvDug/s320/codebg.gif);padding:0px;color:#000000;text-align:left;line-height:20px;"><code style="color:#000000;word-wrap:normal;"> String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");
String browser = "unknown";
if (userAgent != null) {
userAgent = userAgent.toLowercase();
if (this.userAgent.indexOf("msie") > -1) {
browser = "IE";
} else if (this.userAgent.indexOf("opera") > -1) {
browser = "Opera";
} else if (this.userAgent.indexOf("firefox") > -1) {
browser = "Firefox";
} else if (this.userAgent.indexOf("chrome") > -1) {
browser = "Chrome";
} else if (this.userAgent.indexOf("navigator") > -1) {
browser = "Netscape";
} else if (this.userAgent.indexOf("konqueror") > -1) {
browser = "Konqueror";
}
}
</code></pre><br />
This snippet can be improved upon alot. Hope this is of help to someone.Judehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127199787738379834noreply@blogger.com5