QLIKVIEW ON AMAZON EC2
The EC2 Cloud Compute offering allows customers to create virtual
machines in the cloud on demand and pay for the length of time the machine
runs. Customers can create and manage instances, their configuration and
security using the browser EC2 Management Console. For use with QlikView a
customer would create a Windows instance with sufficient resources and install
QlikView onto that Windows host and make it available through the EC2 firewall.
QLIKVIEW ON MICROSOFT AZURE
Microsoft offer through its Azure product a Platform as a
Service. While they do offer a hosted Virtual Machine capability the core is
based around the dynamic hosting of web applications and SQL databases. The
intention is that the customer doesn’t have to touch the Windows operating
system that runs either the application or the database.
A web role is intended to host a web based application
within IIS (Internet Information Services) on a Windows Server. To package
QlikView into a web role the package must run the installer silently and then
use the management API to license and configure the server. This style of
deployment is well suited to deploying a configurable and packaged QlikView environment
and so may appeal best to QlikView partners wanting to offer a similar offering
to their customers. Once packaged a fully functional QlikView Server can be
made available within 10 minutes and the same package could be used to deploy
multiple servers with different configurations. The Azure platform provides a
number of features under its Access Control Service (ACS) which allows
customers to integrate applications with standards-based identity providers, including
enterprise directories such as Active Directory, and web identities such as Windows
Live ID, Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook. There are a range of examples provided by
Microsoft also.
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