Category Archives: Cloud
GigaSpaces Cloudify & VMware CloudFoundary the new PaaS Jailbreaker
I was reading Krishnan Subramanian’s post, Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011. The thing that caught my attention was Krishnan’s comments on why PaaS is a superior alternative to DevOps: The shift in the thinking about the enterprise… Continue reading
Terabyte Elastic Cache clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2
Overview Last week I was working on a new opportunity. The prospect needs to store 1 Terabyte of data in memory to address scalability challenges and were interested in using GigaSpaces. I was tasked with creating a demonstration of this … Continue reading
Posted in Benchmarks, Big Data, Caching, Cloud, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, Web UI
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Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How?
Moving away from Mainframe to Commodity – How? Mainframe (Z/OS) based systems running COBOL programs are legacy systems in many organizations. These are planned to be replaced with low cost commodity servers running Java or .Net based systems, saving the … Continue reading
2012 Cloud, PaaS, NoSQL Predictions
2011 is coming to its end and now is a good time to start planning for 2012. I thought that a good start would be too look at my 2011 predictions and if my previous (and first) attempt to predict… Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Cloudify, Data Grid, GigaSpaces, syndicated
Tagged cloud computing, NoSQL, PaaS, syndicated
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Cloudify for Azure
By now, if you’re following GigaSpaces, you should probably have heard about our new Cloudify for Azure offering. In this post I’ll try to provide a high level overview of what this offering is about, how it was conceptualized, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, GigaSpaces, J2EE, Java
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