Archive for the tag 'GigaSpaces'

Supporting SLA’s on the Cloud

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 this [...]

CloudCamp London

CloudCamp London was fun as usual in the plush Microsoft offices in London and is now developing a real sense of community. Simon Wardley was a host extrodinaire as always and his 100 slide 5 minute presentations are stuff of legends now.

Interesting 5 minute lightening presentations from Dan Stone on Terracotta V GigaSpaces, and HP [...]

Practical Guide for Developing Enterprise Applications for the Cloud

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 [...]

London Amazon Web Services Startup Event Videos

For those of you who missed the Amazon Web Services startup event in London, you can find the customer presentations on Slideshare.net. And view the videos from the links below:
Cedric Roll, Co-Founder, ORbyte Solutions http://www.vimeo.com/4409867
Felipe Padilla, Co-Founder, Skipso http://www.vimeo.com/4409569
Nigel Hamilton, CEO, Turbo10.com http://www.vimeo.com/4409682
Simone Brunozzi, Getting Started with AWS http://www.vimeo.com/4411474
Tal Saraf, Accelerating Your Website with CloudFront http://www.vimeo.com/4409756

Is average utilisation of servers in Data Centers really between 10 and 15% ?

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 [...]

How do you design and handle peak load on the Cloud ?

We see these questions time and time again – “How do I design for Peak load” and “How do I scale out on the cloud?”. First lets figure out how to give some definition for Peak load:
We will make a stab at defining peak load as: “A percentage of activity on a day/week/month/year that comes [...]