Author Archives: Geva Perry

Auto-Scaling and Self-Healing on Amazon EC2 Using GigaSpaces

Dekel Tankel sent me a link to a recorded demo of the GigaSpaces CloudTools that he and Owen Taylor prepared. The demo shows a stock ticker application updated in real-time running on Amazon EC2 (using dummy data). In the demo,… Continue reading

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Big Cloud Week Coming Up

Next week is shaping up to be a big week for cloud computing (again). MondayMicrosoft will be making an announcement in San Francisco about the launch of Online Services. I’ve been invited to attend that as well as a Blogger… Continue reading

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Scalable, Low Latency Web Tier on Amazon EC2

Shay Hassidim, deputy CTO at GigaSpaces, posted an impressive write-up of a benchmark the team ran on Amazon EC2. What’s nice about it is that they took a standard web app, in this case the Spring PetClinic, and dropped it… Continue reading

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Cloud Computing. Literally.

Last week we made a very exciting announcement about Miwok Airways selecting GigaSpaces as the application server for running their reservation and pricing engine which will run on EC2. This is a great case study for cloud computing. For one… Continue reading

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GigaSpaces Cloud Framework – Private Beta

As Dekel has already written on his blog, we are releasing our cloud framework for private beta. This was intended as a very “soft launch” sent to about 30 customers and partners already using GigaSpaces on public clouds (such as… Continue reading

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