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How to Take Any App to the Cloud meetup on May 17th

Norm Leitman — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:47:46 +0000

http://www.meetup.com/The-DevOps-PaaS-Infusion/events/62391382/ GigaSpaces is hosting a cloud computing meetup on how to take any app to the cloud with an all-star panel of CTOs and technical evangelists. Join us for this free, high-energy event on May 17th to hear real world use cases from Microsoft, Aditi, Cisco, GigaSpaces, C24, a Fortune 100 Financial Institution, and learn

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XAP 9.0 – Geared for Real-Time Big Data Stream Processing

Uri Cohen — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:52:00 +0000

XAP 9.0 is out the doorway, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to share some of the things we’ve been up to lately. Traditionally, one of XAP’s primary use cases was large scale event processing, more recently referred to as big data...

HPCS is going into public beta

yoramw — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:16:10 +0000

HP Cloud Services is an HP cloud initiative that is just about to launch as a public beta after several months in private beta. This is a new cloud offering that is based on the open source OpenStack project which has gained significant traction … Continue reading →

Mapping the Cloud/PaaS Stack

Nati Shalom — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:50:11 +0000

Cloud is evolving at an incredible pace, changing almost every aspect of our industry. It’s only natural then, that with this change also comes a continuous evolution of how we classify and categorize the various components of the cloud stack....

Cloudify Explained

Nati Shalom — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:16:16 +0000

A simple whiteboard explanation on how Cloudify works

Big Data In the Cloud Using Cloudify

Nati Shalom — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:12:47 +0000

Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting article on O’Reilly Radar covering the current solutions for running Big Data in the Cloud Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide....

Lessons from Zynga & Sony on moving from Amazon AWS

Nati Shalom — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:14:13 +0000

Earlier this month Zynga announced its move from Amazon AWS to its own private Z-Cloud. Sony also started to move increasing parts of its workload from Amazon to Rackspace OpenStack. There isn't so much in common between these different use...

Assured WAN Replication With Latency Measures

dewayne — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:06:04 +0000

There are significant challenges to coordinating activities between sites in a multi-site WAN deployment. Clearly, there are several rationales for creating a multi-site WAN deployment, including disaster recovery, high availability, scaling, and all the above. In either a master-slave or multi-master topology, there may be a need or desire to monitor the progress of replication

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Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud

Nati Shalom — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:49:29 +0000

Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud Special Guest Post By Nati Shalom, at CloudNewsDaily.com Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the...

Global HTTP Session Sharing

Norm Leitman — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:30:08 +0000

It’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to share HTTP session data across multiple data centers, multiple web server instances or different types of web servers. For example, you may be porting your application from one web server to another and there will be a period of time when both types of servers need to be

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