Archive for December, 2009

IBM Developer Cloud gains new features

The free beta of the IBM Developer Cloud continues to move forward with more features being added. Recently added were: – REST and Java API’s – Instance-independent storage – RHEL 5.4 base image – IP address reservation. Currently you have boot a RHEL image i.e. there is no notion of using your own image and storing it, [...]

GigaSpaces Version 7 and Intel Nehalem deliver impressive benchmark results

GigaSpaces, in conjunction with MPI Europe, Globant, and Intel recently conducted some benchmarks on the in-memory data caching / data grid element of their version 7 XAP platform on Intel’s Nehalem chipset. XAP’s latest version 7 reached 1 million data updates per second and 2.6 million data retrievals per second with four client threads on the [...]

Cloud Computing Thesis- well worth a read

Cedric Mora recently pushed out his thesis on Cloud Computing in France, “a model that will transform companies”. It is well written and informative with some interesting statistics and observations and well worth a read over the holiday period if you get time. We’re sorry, your browser doesn’t support IFrames. You can still visit this [...]