An iPad App to View a Windows Desktop VMware is launching an iPad app today that gives access to a virtual Windows desktop. The new VMware View Client works in combination with VMware View, which moves applications into the cloud and deliveres them as a managed service.
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4 API Trends Seen in Programmable Web's Milestone Numbers The numbers of APIs on Programmable Web has shot to 3,000, up from 2,000 one year ago. The numbers show trends in the overall use of APIs, the way they are being applied and the now dominant place that REST and JSON have compared to other APIs and data formats. The increase is testament to Programmable Web and the excellent service that the group has provided and the increasing popularity of APIs in all kinds of use cases.
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VMWare Acquires Point-and-Click App Creation Company WaveMaker Today VMWare announced its acquisition of WaveMaker, a company that makes a graphical programming tool for non-developers. WaveMaker enables developers to build Java applications based on the open source framework Spring without writing code. VMWare acquired SpringSource, the sponsor company of Spring.
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Building Your Own OpenStack Cloud? Rackspace Wants to Support It Rackspace announced today that it will offer paid support for OpenStack, the cloud platform it open-sourced along with NASA, Dell and others. The new support service is called Cloud Builders, and it is staffed by members of Rackspace's OpenStack team as well as employees of the Rackspace acquisition Anso Labs. Cloud Builders will offer training, deployment services and ongoing support and management. The service is available starting today. This is the first time Rackspace has extended support outside its own data centers.
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Live Blog from CloudConnect: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and the Scaling Cloud Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is the lead keynote today at CloudConnect, an event that has sold out this year with about 3,000 people in attendance. Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, Cisco Systems and Cloudscaling CEO Randy Bias will follow Vogels.
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A Bursting Market: Cisco Building APIs for Cloud Infrastructure Automation Cisco's cloud computing strategy is starting to accelerate, with a focus on providing infrastructure that makes it easier to get started and expand quickly. Cisco's added emphasis on the cloud also highlights Intel, which is developing a cloud building program. The goal of the program is to build reference architectures with its partners, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Enomaly, Canonical, Joyent IBM and China's Huawei and PowerLeader. Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, Parallels and VMWare are also part of the program. Cisco highlighted what it presented at a recent Intel Cloud Builder event. In a blog post, Cisco's Brian Gracely says the company is following the concept of the "now," meaning its emphasis is on helping the customer get from the great idea to the implementation of the concept as quickly as possible.
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Backupify Makes Your Social Media Data Searchable, Restorable Cloud-to-cloud social media and webmail backup provider Backupify is announcing this morning the imminent availability of a new service called CloudSight. CloudSight will render a customer's entire archive searchable and available for restoration with a single click. "The [CloudSite] service gives social media and compliance professionals an automated audit trail of customer- facing corporate online communications across all major social media and cloud platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Gmail," Backupify says. A number of different companies are providing similar services now, but Backupify's appears unique in some important ways. Update: Unfortunately, it looks like the day of this announcement Backupify has experienced some down time.
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Why Linkfluence Switched from CouchDB to Riak Social analytics company Linkfluence began migrating from CouchDB to Riak recently. A blog post by Linkfluence's Franck Cuny explains the reasons and sheds some light on the advantages and disadvantages of different non-relational databases. Linkfluence used CouchDB primarily to store Web content and metadata. It uses other databases such as PostgresSQL, MongoDB and Redis for other purposes.
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Free Invites to Echolibre's New PHP Platform-as-a-Service Software development firm Echolibre beta launched Orchestra, its Heroku-like PHP platform-as-a-service, last month. The company is offering free beta invites for the service to the first 40 ReadWriteWeb readers who sign-up here. Orchestra is remarkably simple. Unlike most other PaaSes, Orchestra doesn't host your repository. You just point it towards your Git or Subversion repository and Echolibre spins-up an image and gives you a host name. Orchestra then automatically pings your repository for changes and automatically updates itself. You can also update manually or on a schedule. You can see a video of the process here.
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A Muddled Look at Today's Cloud Computing Landscape [Infographic] Today's cloud computing landscape is as complex as it is to decipher what the term actually means. Last week, an animated Steve Mills made it clear in an interview with me that for him the cloud is nothing new. Mills leads the software group at IBM and spoke critically of the all-inclusive nature of what the cloud means. The cloud is more an evolution than an innovation. It's an extension of the computer as a metaphor for the transition from the mechanical age to the information age. The computer gives us a space and the cloud is an extension of that space.
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What is the Best Way to Move Apps to the Cloud? Comment and Earn Chance to Win a MacBook Air
We have a new contest this month. The winner will win a MacBook Air. Our question this month is about moving apps from an on-premise environment to the cloud.
To participate, add your comment to our contest post: How do you move applications to the cloud?
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A Look at Food and Drink APIs, Faceted Search and Google's Dominance Beer and WordPress go together very well. Beer tastes good and, when enjoyed in a pint glass, it gives a new sense of ways to think about all the fun things to do when exploring a WordPress blog. The WordPress Brewery DB plugin allows you to display information in your posts about beers and breweries. It uses the Brewery DB API to retrieve the data. My discovery of this beer lover's API has drawn me into a quest to find APIs that are food and drink related.
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Facebook Working on Real Time Analytics Dashboard Facebook is working a new dashboard for developers to gain better insights about their Facebook applications, it was revealed during a Tech Talk at the company's Seattle office this week. The old analytics dashboard often contains data that is no more recent than 48 hours. The new analytics dashboard will be real time. The data will be anonymous - people won't be able to find out WHO is looking at what, just how popular different items are. Facebook is building the solution with the MapReduce database HBase. The Tech Talk goes into more technical detail about how the solution was built and scaled.
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Cloud + Machine-to-Machine = Disruption of Things: Part 2 Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on the advantages that cloud computing brings to the machine-to-machine space. It was first published as a white paper by Ken Fromm. Fromm is VP of Business Development at Appoxy, a Web app development company building high scale applications on Amazon Web Services. He can be found on Twitter at @frommww. Once data is in the cloud, it can be syndicated - made accessible to other processes - in very simple and transparent ways. The use of of REST APIs and JSON or XML data structures, combined with dynamic language data support, allows data to be accessed, processed and recombined in flexible and decentralized ways. A management console, for example, can set up specific processes to watch ranges of sensors and perform operations specific data sets. These processes can be launched and run on any server at any time, controlled via a set schedule or initiated in response to other signals.
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Al Jazeera Uses Drupal and the Cloud to Handle Traffic Spikes As Egyptians took to the streets and overthrew former President Hosni Mubarak, millions of people throughout the world turned to Al Jazeera for coverage. The global interest in events in the Middle East drove record levels of visitors to the news agency's Web servers. Traffic to Al Jazeera's site increased by 1,000% and that to its Drupal-based live blog increased by 2,000% during the crisis in Egypt, according to a blog post by Dreis Buytaert, Drupal creator and the founder of Acquia, which is now providing its elastic service for the international news organization.
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