As well as brokering the connection to multiple Cloud-based services which have differing interfaces, the Cloud Service Broker also manages the API Keys which are used to authenticate to the services. The Cloud Service Broker also meters the connections so that there are no billing surprises, and in order to provide an independent audit trail. Another key advantage of the Cloud Service Broker is that it allows for Service Level Agreement information to be collected for Cloud Services, from the point of view of the client. Cloud Service Providers, famously, are often loath to provide such SLAs.

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11 janvier 2012 : Genuitec's MobiOne Eases Way for Windows Development of iOS Apps

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11 janvier 2012 : How to Leverage Google's 'Search Plus Your World'?

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10 janvier 2012 : Converged Infrastructure

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9 janvier 2012 : Brocade's Reportedly Entertaining Bids

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9 janvier 2012 : The Three Pillars of Collaboration

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9 janvier 2012 : Mobile Continues to Trickle in to the Military

We’ve recently heard a few big announcements for mobile computing in the military, which has long been blocked by security issues. First, the US Defense Information Systems Agency approved Dell Android 2.2 for use on Department of Defense networks with a few notable limitations. DoD users (...)

7 janvier 2012 : Benefits of Loading Test in the Cloud (Part 1)

Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a means of (...)

7 janvier 2012 : SHI Named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 New York

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6 janvier 2012 : Patterns for Building High Performance Applications

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5 janvier 2012 : Bad Apps = Bad Press

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5 janvier 2012 : Five Overlooked Factors of Mobile Application Performance

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5 janvier 2012 : Samsung Denied iPhone 4S Ban in Italy

Samsung’s bid to get a preliminary injunction outlawing the sale of Apple’s iPhone 4S in Italy has failed, according to ANSA, the Italian wire service. The decision is Samsung’s third failure in Europe. Last month a similar attempt was shot down by a French court and before (...)

5 janvier 2012 : The Cyber-Crime Landscape

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4 janvier 2012 : Yahoo Picks PayPal Chief for Its Next CEO

Four months after canning Carol Bartz, its last CEO, Yahoo Wednesday morning named PayPal president Scott Thompson its fourth CEO in under five years. He starts January 9. Acting CEO Tim Morse will go back to being CFO. According to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, Thompson is expected to (...)

4 janvier 2012 : webOS Doomed from Conception: NYT

The TouchPad tablet that HP brought to market last year only to kill it a few weeks later for lack of sales was doomed to fail according a story in the New York Times Tuesday. HP subsequently wrote off a nasty $1.6 billion to cover the cost of its folly. It had paid $1.2 billion in mid-2010 to (...)

4 janvier 2012 : Application Performance and Antipatterns

Any application you pick up, there are some issues – big or small. There will be copy-paste code, mistakes, algorithms which could have better thought through. But what distinguishes an antipattern from these normal errors is that like patterns these antipatterns are recurring throughout (...)

3 janvier 2012 : The Automation Paradox

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3 janvier 2012 : Steadying ‘Information Optimization' on a Moving Walkway

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3 janvier 2012 : Entering (and Surviving) the Application Transformation Vortex

Transformation can be a dangerous word if used too lightly in software application development circles. With the global technology media swimming hard against a riptide of hackneyed overused buzzwords, we’re all too easily tempted to pick the most emotive adjectives and nouns we can find (...)

3 janvier 2012 : Survey: Agile Projects Are More Successful

Survey conducted by Scott Ambler has consistently (2008, 2010 & 2011) shown that Agile and Iterative Projects have been more successful. Apart from the fact that Agile has been consistently been more successful compared to traditional approach, these survey result show two more interesting (...)