GigaSpaces at CloudCamp
Posted 18 July 2008 @ 8:45 am by Jim LiddleGigaSpaces had a good presence at CloudCamp in the UK this week. Dekel, from GigaSpaces in San Francisco and responsible for our Amazon EC2 and general cloud proposition with vendors such as Flexiscale and Cohesive FT, gave a good presentation as to the benefits that GigaSpaces provide in the cloud, which include automatic failover, automatic scale-out as well as providing quicker access to data which can then be asynchronously persisted to things like Amazon S3.
Excelian’s Adam Vile did a great job showing how technologies such as DataSynapse and GigaSpaces can be run on the Cloud. Excelian ran a Mote Carlo Simulation on the cloud using GigaSpaces Amazon EC2 image.
Of the other presentations Simon Wardley’s *aas presentation was the best - informative, watchable and listenable - great job !
Topics that the audience were interested in were Cloud Security, Portability between clouds, Location of data (for legislation and privacy purposes), a true Filesystem for S3 - amongs other things.
All in all it was a blast and the number of people at the event (200+) which was organised in such a short spate of time shows how popular the Cloud is right now.
