http://www.cloudiquity.com A blog about Cloud, Grid and HPC technologies Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:56:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2010/01/sun%e2%80%99s-grid-engine-now-features-cloud-burst-and-apache-hadoop-integration/ 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, ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/12/ibm-developer-cloud-gains-new-features/ 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 ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/12/gigaspaces-version-7-and-intel-nehalem-deliver-impressive-benchmark-results/ 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 ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/12/cloud-computing-thesis-well-worth-a-read/ Check out Sheldon's new book http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/11/the-sheldon-definition-of-cloud/ 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 ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/10/gigaspaces-finds-a-place-in-the-cloud/ 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 ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/09/php-on-the-microsoft-azure-platform/ It's often said that the Cloud will be a game changer and disruptive and that statement is put out there for the future but I believe we have already seen a huge example of this in the mobile telecommunications domain.  We have seen in the last twelve months the beginning ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/08/the-cloud-a-disruptive-game-changer-just-ask-nokia/ 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 ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/08/supporting-slas-on-the-cloud/ The Windows Azure cloud platform includes Windows Azure, a Web-based Microsoft SQL Azure, and connectivity /  interoperability services with .NET Services. As with other Cloud platforms, Azure is a consumption-based pricing model.  A summary of the pricing is below and more details can be found here: - Compute @ $0.12 / ... http://www.cloudiquity.com/2009/08/a-brief-overview-of-the-windows-azure-cloud-platform/