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Abiquo announced themselves on the world stage recently at the SysCon Cloud Computing expo in New York, which Abiquo completely dominated. Their impressive booth was packed with people the wholetime. If audience feedback and energy is anything to go by, it was clear that they gave by far the most compelling presentations, which was an interesting contrast to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sun (or is that Oracle…) has released a new version of their Grid Engine which brings it into the cloud. There are two main additions in this release. The First is is integration with Apache Hadoop in which Hadoop jobs can now be submitted to Grid Engine, as if they were any other computation job. The Grid Engine also [...]

Tags: Apache, Grid Computing, Grid Engine, Hadoop, Oracle, Sun

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, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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a new report from analysts The 451 Group outlines the success to date  that GigaSpaces has had in the Cloud Sector. The report talks about how GigaSpaces now has 76 customers using its software on cloud-computing platforms. This is up from 25 on Amazon’s EC2 in February. GigaSpaces have moved forward their cloud strategy in [...]

PHP is now officially supported as a language for developing applications that can run on Windows Azure. This makes a lot of sense from Microsoft’s viewpoint as the number of PHP developers that use Windows environments for PHP is not insignificant. Microsoft have now made it possible to run PHP applications on Microsoft Azure servers [...]