23 August 2010

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Before I start this blog let me be clear! I am a finance major and so I deal in dollars and cents and I have spent the last 3 1/2 years building an internet marketing solutions company www.nexonta.com ( you pick up a few things along the way) and so while I am not a programmer I am able to look after your bottom line when it comes to IT and online advertising ( Which is a huge industry today ) while anyone will tell you however that the internet does not start and end with Google ( Allot of people will be shocked by that last comment ) it is fundamentally important to keep up on other aspects of IT and new trends in OP for you novice that does not mean “Ocean Pacific” it means operating systems and so I felt it important to write a techie blog just to show off my depth to which I study technology applications. Today’s lessons will focus on “Cloud Computing” and “Lamp stack” For all you laymen and laywomen out there the first one Cloud Computing just means a bunch of servers all working together to run your IT needs and the other “Lamp” just means free stuff (applications) swag when you buy Linux hosting but to show off our techie brilliance I will write Techie for those of you who read my blog if anyone does at this point!

CLOUD COMPUTING is the inter connectivity of computer servers is the first element of that characterizes cloud computing. This characteristic can enable the organization to carry out a variety of tasks in different locations. If there are issues with download capacity or virtual memory, then it allows for the specialization of different servers so that you can split the burden of the information technology activities. This is what good band width management is about. This option is quite useful if you do not have the resources or the capacity to provide your own in house infrastructure.
That way you could access the services without dealing with some of the challenges that come about when you are building infrastructure for cloud computing. Cloud computing advantage therefore cloud computing can facilitate the proper management of information technology resources within the organization. Some organizations have decided that the best option is to look for the cloud computing provider that specializes in platform. The platform allows you to carry out all the functionality that you would have done under the cloud computing system but then it gives you leeway in terms of undertaking the other activities. This option is excellent for those organizations which have the technical skills but require a platform to operate their cloud computing schemes. Google Apps is a prime example of this type of application service. This type of provision can be complemented by software services that give you the technological capacity to complete your operating system.

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, originally coined from the first letters of Linux (operating system), Apache HTTP Server, MySQL (database software), and PHP, principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.  The precise combination of software included in a LAMP package may vary, especially with respect to the web scripting software, as PHP may be replaced by Perl or Python. Similar terms exist for essentially the same software suite (AMP) running on other operating systems, such as MS Windows (WAMP), Mac OS (MAMP), Solaris (SAMP), or OpenBSD (OpAMP).

Though the original authors of these programs did not design them all to work specifically with each other, the development philosophy and tool sets are shared and were developed in close conjunction. The software combination has become popular because it is free of cost, open-source, and therefore easily adaptable, and because of the ubiquity of its components which are bundled with most current Linux distributions.

When used in combination they represent a solution stack of technologies that support application servers. Michael Kunze this German fellow coined the acronym LAMP in an article for the German computing magazine in April 1998. The article aimed to show that a bundle of free software could provide a viable alternative to commercial packages. Knowing the IT-world’s love of acronyms, Kunze came up with LAMP as a marketing-like term to increase the popularity of free software. O’Reilly and MySQL AB have made the term popular among English-speakers. Indeed, MySQL AB has since based some of its marketing efforts on the popularity of the LAMP stack.

So there you have it. I have just simplified a few really cool tech terms and so the next time you are in a board meeting and you want to impress the higher ups ( Only thing is it would help if you didn’t work in the tech department cause then you would be just being obnoxious) suggest cost cutting of your information technology needs by implementing a Cloud Computing system and I guarantee you that you will get that date with Julie from accounting and probably make VP by the end of the week!
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