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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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