Archive for July, 2008
The Space as a Messaging Backbone - Why You Should Care
July 20th, 2008One of the main themes of GigaSpaces 6.5 XAP release (which is also true for our direction as a company in general), is the fact that we consider ourselves as a very complete application platform, and not just an IMDG solution. This has been evident in…
My TechTalk at TSS.com
July 20th, 2008You’re all welcome to watch my talk at TSSJS Prague about the challenges in scaling web 2.0 applications. It’s now online at TSS.com
An Update on GigaSpaces and Model Driven Development
July 18th, 2008In my previous post I talked about work that was being done on Model Driven Development and GigaSpaces. This is still continuing, and in fact I was talk to Matthew Fowler who is the architect on this today. Right now he has a working Eclipse GigaSpaces Plug-in for taking an OSM (OpenSpaces file) that can be used to produce a GigaSpaces project. There is still some work to do on this but it is coming along nicely and Matthew hopes to be able to show this at the GigaSpaces International customer event on 22nd September in London.
CloudCamp London
July 18th, 2008I’m on my way back from CloudCamp London. The event was very impressive and I had lot of fun (not only because of the beer and the pizza…)To be honest, I did not imagine that there will be over 250 people in the room, I guess cloud is one of the hott…
GigaSpaces at CloudCamp
July 18th, 2008GigaSpaces 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.
