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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

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 [...]

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 [...]

What does it take to make a Cloud Computing infrastructure enterprise ready ? Well, as always, this probably depends on the use case, but support for real-time scaling and SLA support must figure highly. Software that purports to scale the applications on the cloud is not new, have a look at our prior blog post on [...]

Tags: Cloud Computing, GigaSpaces, SLA, Tibco Silver

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 [...]

Tags: Amazon, Cloud, EC2, GigaSpaces

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 [...]

Tags: Cloud Best Practice, Cloud Computing, Compliance, Data Regulations, Data Transfer cost, Dependencies, latency, Licensing, QOS, Standardisation, State, TheSavvyGuideTo

The below presentation is a very good presentation on Sun’s Cloud Computing Vision. It covers all areas, including public and private cloud, as well as open source initiatives. It’s a very good intro’ to get the skinny on where Sun is right now with Cloud and where it intends to focus and drive forward. Cloud [...]

Tags: Cloud Computing Vision, Sun, Sun Cloud Presentation

There has been  an interesting discussion occurring on The Cloud Computing forum hosted on Google Groups (and if you are all interested in Cloud I recommend you join this as it really does have some excellent discussions). What has been interesting about it from my viewpoint is that there is a general consensus that the average CPU [...]

Tags: Cloud Computing, GigaSpaces, Green Computing, Grid Computing, Server utilisation, server utilization

A recent post by the Cloud vendor CohesiveFT talks about the potential changes in technical sales cycles when evaluating Grid based products. I’m not sure I agree totally with the article, but the ethos behind the article i.e. making it easier to trial products, try out solutions and build apps /services quicker to be build internal business cases is [...]

Tags: Amazon, Cloud, CohesiveFT, EC2, Grid, VPN-Cubed