Cloud Computing
Planning for IT infrastructure has always been a challenge for any organization due to increasingly incrementing demand for resources. Even when an organization plans for it well in advance, optimization of Infrastructure is not easy. Companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft saw these issues as an opportunity, and thus, Cloud Computing originated.
Cloud Computing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources—networks, servers, storage, applications, and services—that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This model enables scalable, elastic, and highly available deployment of software applications while minimizing the level of detailed interaction with the underlying technology stack. Cloud software, being service oriented, takes full advantage with a focus on statelessness, low coupling, modularity, and semantic interoperability.
In effect, Cloud Computing takes away the hassle of detailed, long-term planning and optimization of infrastructure (resources) and allows companies to focus on their core activities, as well as allows them to manage cost better with no major cost bearings at the beginning.
Cybage has been an early adopter of newer technologies and Cloud Computing is no different. Cybage has deep expertise in SOA and SaaS, and this has helped us in adopting Cloud Computing seamlessly leveraging Cloud Computing service models to our customers’ advantage.
In effect, Cloud Computing takes away the hassle of detailed, long-term planning and optimization of infrastructure (resources) and allows companies to focus on their core activities, as well as allows them to manage cost better with no major cost bearings at the beginning.
Cybage has been an early adopter of newer technologies and Cloud Computing is no different. Cybage has deep expertise in SOA and SaaS, and this has helped us in adopting Cloud Computing seamlessly leveraging Cloud Computing service models to our customers’ advantage.
Along with the rich pool of advantages that any new technology offers, many challenges accompany. Cloud Computing poses challenges from the perspective of both application developers and users.
Cybage has developed a deep understanding of these challenges and can, thereby, help its customers deal with these challenges in the best possible way to suit their business scenario.
Migrating Existing Applications/Services to Cloud
Most organizations have already invested a lot of money in building applications to automate their business processes. It would have been an expensive effort to reengineer these existing applications to various cloud platforms. However, as a prudent business requirement, cloud platforms offer various tools for migrating existing applications and services to cloud with minimum cost and effort. Cybage has pioneered in helping its customers by reusing most of their existing applications and services and migrating them to cloud platforms, manually and with the help of tools.
Building Cloud-based Applications/Services
One of the mainstays of cloud platform is to provide enormous scalability; however, appropriate design considerations need to be taken to make it a reality. Cybage has been evolving and following best practices to make sure that the applications and services built by us use the cloud platforms optimally. Cybage has gained extensive experience making applications and even more on SOA services on various cloud platforms. Cybage has implemented a few tools to make development for cloud databases easy. The "Databases - New Paradigm" section describes the initiative that Cybage has taken to make such designs easy.
Creating Private Cloud
Very large organizations are looking at consolidating their internal investments by building a private cloud fabric or infrastructure on top of their existing resources in various datacenters. Working with various customers in the private cloud space has enabled Cybage to gain vast experience in building such a fabric. The "Private Cloud"section describes Cybage's expertise in building private clouds using a customer's existing infrastructure. The "Virtualization & Green IT" section describes Cybage's experience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which plays a key role in optimizing internal computation resources.
Integrating with Cloud-based Services
Organizations are trying to acquire off-the-shelf services from the market for their non-core business functions to reduce or share the cost for such business scenarios and applications. However, integration with core business functions and applications becomes a critical task in successfully running business. Cybage has been involved in various EAI/SOA initiatives to make such integration successful for many of our customers.
Most organizations have already invested a lot of money in building applications to automate their business processes. It would have been an expensive effort to reengineer these existing applications to various cloud platforms. However, as a prudent business requirement, cloud platforms offer various tools for migrating existing applications and services to cloud with minimum cost and effort. Cybage has pioneered in helping its customers by reusing most of their existing applications and services and migrating them to cloud platforms, manually and with the help of tools.
Building Cloud-based Applications/Services
One of the mainstays of cloud platform is to provide enormous scalability; however, appropriate design considerations need to be taken to make it a reality. Cybage has been evolving and following best practices to make sure that the applications and services built by us use the cloud platforms optimally. Cybage has gained extensive experience making applications and even more on SOA services on various cloud platforms. Cybage has implemented a few tools to make development for cloud databases easy. The "Databases - New Paradigm" section describes the initiative that Cybage has taken to make such designs easy.
Creating Private Cloud
Very large organizations are looking at consolidating their internal investments by building a private cloud fabric or infrastructure on top of their existing resources in various datacenters. Working with various customers in the private cloud space has enabled Cybage to gain vast experience in building such a fabric. The "Private Cloud"section describes Cybage's expertise in building private clouds using a customer's existing infrastructure. The "Virtualization & Green IT" section describes Cybage's experience in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which plays a key role in optimizing internal computation resources.
Integrating with Cloud-based Services
Organizations are trying to acquire off-the-shelf services from the market for their non-core business functions to reduce or share the cost for such business scenarios and applications. However, integration with core business functions and applications becomes a critical task in successfully running business. Cybage has been involved in various EAI/SOA initiatives to make such integration successful for many of our customers.
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Private Cloud
Organizations invest a lot of money in procuring hardware for their internal applications. Most of the time, environments are not utilized to their full capacity. Hardware consolidation is gaining a lot of popularity, and cloud providers are working on creating private cloud platforms to provision resources based on the demand from various applications in-house. Cybage started its initiative towards private cloud implementation in 2006. Since then, we have built an SLA-based private cloud platform on top of a Grid Computing platform. Applications built for this platform scale out automatically based on the resource demand from the application. The platform has the ability to monitor the SLAs of the applications and provision or release resources based on the SLAs being met.
Databases - New Paradigm
Cloud is a synonym for providing infinite scalability using the scale-out approach. Application server technologies have evolved over time to support the scalability needs by using the scale-out approach. They fit very well with the underlying infrastructure provided by cloud-based systems. However, databases have been struggling to be in sync with the technology at application layers and have traditionally supported only the scale-up approach. A paradigm change is needed in databases to provide the required scalability by using the scale-out platforms such as cloud. Key-value pair databases are a new way of storing data, which will enable databases to utilize the cloud platforms. However, those databases lack in relational concepts, which the developers have been practicing for their database designs. The design techniques for key-value pair databases are still evolving and need a careful approach to increase the maintainability of the products built on those platforms.
Cybage has developed applications, such as HyperTable and Azure Data Services, based on key-value pair databases. Our internal teams have harvested the best practices to perform designs that can be utilized in our future projects. Cybage has created a framework for connecting to key-value pair databases by using conventional database querying techniques. This framework converts the conventional database calls to key-value calls and allows users to perform database transactions.
Cloud-based Applications
Cybage has started moving some of our internal applications to Azure as well as Amazon platforms to manage our infrastructure efficiently. Cybage has built required applications and tools for integration and single sign-on between Intranet-based and cloud-based applications. Cybage is also helping some customers in hosting their solutions on cloud platforms such as Amazon, Google App Engine, Force.com, and Azure.
Virtualization & Green IT
Cybage has started infrastructure optimization by virtualizing its testing, training, and support departments. We are moving towards virtualizing our development environment using a custom-made thin client solution with automatic application and hardware provisioning to improve IS efficiency as well as the power consumption by the organization, which in turn leads to Green IT.
Organizations invest a lot of money in procuring hardware for their internal applications. Most of the time, environments are not utilized to their full capacity. Hardware consolidation is gaining a lot of popularity, and cloud providers are working on creating private cloud platforms to provision resources based on the demand from various applications in-house. Cybage started its initiative towards private cloud implementation in 2006. Since then, we have built an SLA-based private cloud platform on top of a Grid Computing platform. Applications built for this platform scale out automatically based on the resource demand from the application. The platform has the ability to monitor the SLAs of the applications and provision or release resources based on the SLAs being met.
Databases - New Paradigm
Cloud is a synonym for providing infinite scalability using the scale-out approach. Application server technologies have evolved over time to support the scalability needs by using the scale-out approach. They fit very well with the underlying infrastructure provided by cloud-based systems. However, databases have been struggling to be in sync with the technology at application layers and have traditionally supported only the scale-up approach. A paradigm change is needed in databases to provide the required scalability by using the scale-out platforms such as cloud. Key-value pair databases are a new way of storing data, which will enable databases to utilize the cloud platforms. However, those databases lack in relational concepts, which the developers have been practicing for their database designs. The design techniques for key-value pair databases are still evolving and need a careful approach to increase the maintainability of the products built on those platforms.
Cybage has developed applications, such as HyperTable and Azure Data Services, based on key-value pair databases. Our internal teams have harvested the best practices to perform designs that can be utilized in our future projects. Cybage has created a framework for connecting to key-value pair databases by using conventional database querying techniques. This framework converts the conventional database calls to key-value calls and allows users to perform database transactions.
Cloud-based Applications
Cybage has started moving some of our internal applications to Azure as well as Amazon platforms to manage our infrastructure efficiently. Cybage has built required applications and tools for integration and single sign-on between Intranet-based and cloud-based applications. Cybage is also helping some customers in hosting their solutions on cloud platforms such as Amazon, Google App Engine, Force.com, and Azure.
Virtualization & Green IT
Cybage has started infrastructure optimization by virtualizing its testing, training, and support departments. We are moving towards virtualizing our development environment using a custom-made thin client solution with automatic application and hardware provisioning to improve IS efficiency as well as the power consumption by the organization, which in turn leads to Green IT.