Real-Time Push Notifications Using Hybrid Cloud

Ever wonder how to design solutions that send push notifications to millions of users? Is cloud computing a good choice for such solutions? How can market leaders like EMC and Microsoft help you build such solutions? In this Knowledge Sharing article, Aneesh Pulukkul provides detailed answers to questions such as these.

Discussing the ingredients for a real-time and scalable push notification service, Aneesh presents a convincing case that effective implementation of such a service for mobile devices and application vendors is not a complex task once the concepts and design concerns are understood and addressed.

From a business perspective, this solution would help application vendors focus on creating mobile apps instead of procuring and maintaining an infrastructure for computing and storage. This article brings clarity to the following points along the way.

• Benefits of using push notifications for mobile devices

• Custom implementation of a scalable push notification service

• Advantages of RESTful web services and workers hosted on cloud

• Data storage options in a hybrid cloud scenario

• Importance of scalability and reliability for real-time services and how cloud helps achieve these

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