September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 43m
English
Content preview from Architecting the Industrial Internet
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Hosted systems and the cloud
Deploying an enterprise or industrial application can be an expensive endeavor in terms of hardware and software costs, infrastructure, time, hiring and training, and maintenance and risk. On-premise systems require significant investment in time and budget.
The Internet made it possible for users to interact with a system from any Internet-connected device. Hosting services enable all or part of a system to be hosted and accessed from a remote location. Most hosting centers deploy applications in virtual servers using VMware, Oracle VirtualBox, Microsoft Hyper-V, or containers, and can spin-up the desired application on-demand. Containers are frequently deployed in hosted systems to deliver the operating system ...