Cloud and DataGrid admin on 18 Jan 2011
An interesting article in the New York Tines online by Derrick Harris of GigaOM outlined the release of some customers using Clustrix webscale SQL database, namely, Box.net, AOL, PhotoBox, and iOffer. Clustrix launched in early May with the claim that it’s DB technology, which features MySQL like transactionality and reliability, could scale to billions of [...]
Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 22 Apr 2010
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 [...]
Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 23 Dec 2009
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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 23 Oct 2009
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 [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid admin on 16 May 2009
This session was presented at Cloud Slam 09 by Nati Shalom CTO of GigaSpaces. It provides a practical guideline addressing the common challenges of developing and deploying an existing enterprise application on the cloud. Additionally, you will get the opportunity for hands-on experience running and deploying production ready applications in a matter of minutes on [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 08 May 2009
Some of the key things to think about when putting your application on the cloud are discussed below. Cloud computing is relatively new, and best practice is still being established. However we can learn from earlier technologies and concepts such as utility compute, SaaS, outsourcing and even internal enterprise centre management, as well as from [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud and DataGrid and Grid and HPC admin on 26 Feb 2009
A new book co-authored by Jim Liddle, one of the contributors to this blog has been released entitled “TheSavvyGuideTo HPC, Grid, DataGrid, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing. The aim of TheSavvyGuideTo book range is to get people up to speed as quickly as possible on the subject matter of the books. Although the book covers a [...]
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