Dekel Tankel sent me a link to a recorded demo of the GigaSpaces CloudTools that he and Owen Taylor prepared. The demo shows a stock ticker application updated in real-time running on Amazon EC2 (using dummy data). In the demo,...
Next week is shaping up to be a big week for cloud computing (again). MondayMicrosoft will be making an announcement in San Francisco about the launch of Online Services. I've been invited to attend that as well as a Blogger...
Shay Hassidim, deputy CTO at GigaSpaces, posted an impressive write-up of a benchmark the team ran on Amazon EC2. What's nice about it is that they took a standard web app, in this case the Spring PetClinic, and dropped it...
Last week we made a very exciting announcement about Miwok Airways selecting GigaSpaces as the application server for running their reservation and pricing engine which will run on EC2. This is a great case study for cloud computing. For one...
As Dekel has already written on his blog, we are releasing our cloud framework for private beta. This was intended as a very "soft launch" sent to about 30 customers and partners already using GigaSpaces on public clouds (such as...
On-Demand Enterprise just published a piece I wrote about some of the lessons learned from the current financial crisis and cloud computing. Although there is of course no direct connection, there are some interesting conclusions.Here's an excerpt:Although I'm not suggesting...
I really like the new "No Hardware" campaign from our friends at GoGrid, picking up on Salesforce.com's "no software" slogan. John is hilarious in the role of Dr. GoGrid.
Kent Lagley writes on the Joyent blog about the work he has done with Dekel and Owen running GugaSpaces on the Joyet Accelerators. It's a well-written detailed blog and in a post entitled Cloud Computing with Java, Kent adds some...
The announcement by Oracle this week that they are "on the cloud" was once again quite an amusing piece of public relations. I don't know if Oracle is serious when they make these announcements or if they are secretly smiling...
This is a long overdue acknowledgment of my friend and colleague at GigaSpaces, Dekel Tankel's blog - Thoughts from the Clouds. A lot of people out there are talking about cloud computing, without truly understanding the issues, and without real-world...
A couple of weeks ago John Willis recorded a podcast with me as part of his excellent Cloud Cafe podcast series. He just posted it online and you can listen to it here.In it we talk about cloud computing in...
Toon Vanagt at Virtualization.com recorded a video interview with me at Structure 08 in San Francisco (I spoke on a panel). I talk about cloud computing and GigaSpaces, virtual middleware, the economics of pay-per-use pricing and more. Here it is:
Ray Nugent posted a message on the excellent Google Groups discussion forum on Cloud Computing that deserves a lengthier response than what I can post on the forum there, so here goes. Ray asks about GigaSpaces pricing on Amazon EC2....
Those of you with Twitter accounts can now follow GigaSpaces-related updates on the GigaSpaces Twitter stream that was set up by Jim Liddle. You can also follow me at: http://twitter.com/gevaperry
I enjoyed reading Ted Dziuba's I'm Going to Scale My Foot Up Your Ass, I really did. I like the 'tude and I like the style of writing. Reminiscent of the BileBlog (RIP), which some of my colleagues think is...