Zoho Creator

Many people use Zoho’s huge suite of free, online applications, which is competitive with Google Docs. What lots of folks don’t realize, though, is that Zoho’s core is completely open source — a shining example of how SaaS solutions can work in harmony with open source. You can find many details on how Zoho deploys open-source tools in this interview

What is Zoho Creator?

Zoho Creator is an easy-to-use platform that lets you build custom business applications on your own, online.

The AWS CISO on AWS Security

Again a good blog by Jeff on AWS Blog...

Do follow to understand security on AWS Cloud...

As you can tell by looking at the AWS Security and Compliance Center, we take security seriously. You can find information about our certifications and accreditations in the center, along with links to four security white papers.

I would also like to recommend a new AWS video to you. In the video, AWS VP and CISO Stephen Schmidt discusses security and privacy in the AWS Cloud, in concrete and specific terms:



Here are my favorite quotes from the video:

No hard drive leaves our facilities intact. Period.

I run security for the company. I don't have access to our data centers because I don't need to be there on a regular basis.

If you happen to talk to someone who doesn't quite grasp what cloud security means, please share this video with them ...

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Automating Your Infrastructure with AWS

Demonstration of infrastructure automation with Amazon Web Services.

Demo: Introduction to AWS

View more presentations from Amazon Web Services

SOURCE : Demo: Introduction to AWS, Cambridge

InfoWorld : The battle to stop Amazon Web Services starts here

A good blog by David Linthicum... do read!

Piston Computing's integration with VMware's Cloud Foundry surprised many, but you should expect more anti-AWS efforts...

Piston Computing plans to build a bridge to EMC VMware's Cloud Foundry, meaning it will link Piston's own OpenStack-based cloud IaaS offering. What does this mean for cloud development? It's the start of many other such integration efforts, I suspect, to battle the meteoric rise of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Cloud Foundry is a popular open source platform service, which VMware promotes as a PaaS for any infrastructure. Piston is one of many companies that rely on OpenStack. The OpenStack fraternity includes Akamai, AMD, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, CloudScaling, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, NTT, Rackspace, and Yahoo. The OpenStack movement is really a competitive pushback on AWS in the IaaS space. Both Cloud Foundry and Piston's OpenStack are available under the Apache 2 license.

If you're working on an enterprise cloud computing strategy, you should be well aware that relationships such as the Piston/VMware deal are forged for the economic benefit of both companies by making the combination more attractive than either offering on its own. That's why we'll see more and more such IaaS/PaaS partnerships or even acquisitions in the next 18 months -- especially involving other OpenStack providers.

The rationale is obvious: AWS is eating everyone's lunch, so now is the time to pile on. If AWS were not doing so well in the market, you wouldn't see many of these partnerships -- trust me.

What's an enterprise cloud guy to do? Use these partnerships to your advantage. No matter what the motivation, they open up new paths to cloud computing success, both private and public. As everyone teams up to defeat AWS, the prices should fall and the breadth of the technology stacks should increase.

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By David Linthicum | InfoWorld