BigData All the time NSA for you

We are at O’Reilly’s BigData Conference Strata in Santa Clara. The halls are bustling. Bigdata is doing well. The WSO2 theme for the show is “NSA for you.” This has attracted a lot of attention. Most people seem to like the reference to the NSA’s recent notoriety. One person came by the booth […]

A simple guide to Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, BaaS, DBaaS, iPaaS, IDaaS, APIMaaS

Cloud computing is something that I find many people still questioning the value of. http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/01/letting-gamers-experience-the.html What is Cloud computing? I don’t know if this qualifies as the “dumb aaS” guide but it is the simplest way I can explain the benefits of Cloud Computing and what all the fuss is about, what these terms mean and […]

Component Completeness, what is a complete platform? Using the right tool for the job.

The Typical Organization The typical enterprise application infrastructure looks like this over time. The word platform is very overloaded. As mentioned in a previous blog, by itself it is pretty meaningless term. However, for WSO2 we have thought about what is a platform more systematically. As we built the distributed software platform up from the […]

Security in the cloud age

Numerous studies (2013 Cloud Computing Study) have suggested that cloud security is a major adoption stumbling block for major enterprises. I think this is bogus. It’s not that I doubt the study results but I think that security is the “excuse” executives and people use in general when they don’t want to do something […]