CloudForms: Red Hat’s IaaS Offering
Red Hat has announced its new IaaS offering entitled CloudForms, which complements its PaaS solution, OpenShift. Based on a collection of over 60 open source projects, CloudForms offers users the ability to create hybrid public and private clouds, as well as offering a host of application lifecycle management capabilities. According to Scott Crenshaw, Red Hat’s [...]
OpenShift: Red Hat’s PaaS Offering
OpenShift, Red Hat’s PaaS (platform as a service) was announced in May 2011, during the Red Hat Summit 2011 in Boston. The PaaS environment supports a variety of programming languages and frameworks, including Java, Ruby, PHP, Python and more. It enables developers who build on open source and offers a wider variety of languages, frameworks [...]
Signing Contracts in the Cloud
Being able to sign documents in the cloud is yet another example of how cloud computing is facilitating the processes of digital evolution. The development of online document signature has gone through a number of exciting changes in recent years. These changes have important implications for consumers as well as service providers. There are a [...]
Cloud Service Providers & Questionable Contracts
Cloud service contracts are often rushed through, which leads to costly blunders and serious risks. According to a recent Techaisle estimate, small and medium businesses are reviewing and signing about $11 billion worth of cloud service contracts, in 2011 alone. Four Risks Whenever an enterprise is planning to enter into a cloud computing contract, it [...]
