Archive for April, 2010

Amazon announce new Asia Pacific region in Singapore for their cloud services

Starting today, Asia Pacific-based businesses and global businesses with customers based in Asia Pacific can run their applications and workloads in AWS’s Singapore Region to reduce latency to end-users in Asia and to avoid the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with maintaining and operating their own infrastructure.
The new Singapore Region launches with multiple availability zones and [...]

GigaSpaces release 7.1 of XAP Cloud enabled Middleware – certified for use on Cisco UCS

The upcoming release of GigaSpaces XAP includes the ‘Elastic Data Grid’, which enables deploying a full clustered application with a single API call. Users basically specify their business requirements and XAP automatically performs sizing, hardware provisioning, configuration and deployment. The aim of this is to  provide simplification resulting in reduced effort and cost savings for [...]