Cloud platforms (such as Google App Engine and Windows Azure) offer a simple deployment experience. Just upload your code, and the cloud takes care of the rest. GigaSpaces XAP v8 brings this user experience without the cloud vendor lock-in. Your application can now be deployed on your laptop,  in the [...]

  GigaSpaces 8 now supports documents composed of key,value pairs. Unlike POJOs, which force users to design a fixed data schema (in the form of a class definition)  a document allows adding and removing properties at runtime. With GigaSpaces the two data models are interoperable. You can write a POJO [...]

While I was unpacking my bag this morning, I found my new OpenStack T-Shirt that we got at the summit. It brought up really good memories. The energy at the summit was driven by the Rackers ( RackSpace employees). They feal really lucky to be working on such a cool [...]

Open Stack is an open source cloud computing project. The Open Stack summit this week had 250 people from 12 countires and 90 different companies. The most visible employees in the summit were from the following companies: Rackspace , NASA , Citrix and NTT. For those of you who are [...]

WOW! Unless you've been having internet connection problems (or in case you are not tuned to Microsoft blogs) you probably heard about the new C# "await" keyword.The WOW factor here is that it allows LEGACY CODE to be re-written asynchronously. Here's a short example: Blocking code (legacy code): Integer foo() [...]

This blog post is part 4 in the "build your own IaaS" series where we create a small cloud based testing environment for scalable applications that mimics an internally hosted testing lab. Part 1 discussed different virtual machine hosting models, Part 2 discussed the DHCP configuration, and part 3 was [...]

This blog post is part 3 of the "Buiding your own IaaS" series. Part 1 discussed different virtual machine hosting models, and focused on a service which provides physical machines preinstalled with virtualization software. Part 2 introduced an auxiliary machine running a DHCP server and a web proxy for the [...]

This blog post is part 2 of the "Buiding your own IaaS" series. Part 1 discussed different virtual machine hosting models, and focused on a service which provides physical machines preinstalled with virtualization software. In this blog post I'll discuss the DHCP server in a virtualized environment. The DHCP server [...]