In this post, I will introduce Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the governance and operation domains through which they promote the best security practices in the cloud. I also briefly...

Right from the early days of cloud, the overall security of cloud solutions has been one of the biggest roadblocks to adoption of cloud. Potential cloud customers are usually concerned...

When it comes to SaaS applications, enterprises can select whether they want to use subscription model (hosted online) or bring the SaaS application and host it on their own infrastructure....

The development of mobile technologies now regularly occurs by leveraging cloud applications. The purpose of this post is to explore the cloud computing and how it enables the development of...

The goal of the following post is to compare the Enterprise Service Bus to a cloud messaging services such as Azure Service Bus (ASB). Application Messaging in the Cloud One...

The following post clarifies how cloud PaaS achieves its support for multi-tenancy. I compare cloud IaaS approach to that of PaaS multi-tenancy approach and also cover the PaaS data protection....

All of us recognize the biggest cloud brands such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. However, some of us who tried the cloud solutions also feel that the AWS console feels...

One of the best general definitions of SLA comes from Marilly, Martinot and Betgé-Brezetz (2002, p.57-62), “A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a contract between Service Providers or between Service...

A common misconception of Amazon Lightsail is that you cannot scale up your Lightsail VM instance. There is a way to do it, and it's much easier than you may...

In this post, I use Amazon Web Service cloud (AWS) as an example for my analyses of how Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are used together. Cloud computing...