OpenStack is Coming to Israel
I'm very excited to announce our first OpenStack Israel event on Wednesday the 30th of May in Petach Tikva in collaboration with the IGT Cloud and Rackspace. Since Avner Algom and myself started to work on the event a few...
Bare-Metal PaaS
The Rise of Bare-Metal Clouds Cloud and Virtualization are not mandatory, and the number of cloud providers that supports bare-metal clouds is growing, as David Linthicum pointed out in his article Going native: The move to bare-metal cloud services It...
Mapping the Cloud/PaaS Stack
Cloud is evolving at an incredible pace, changing almost every aspect of our industry. It’s only natural then, that with this change also comes a continuous evolution of how we classify and categorize the various components of the cloud stack....
Cloudily explained
A simple whiteboard explanation on how Cloudify works
Lessons from Zynga & Sony on moving from Amazon AWS
Earlier this month Zynga announced its move from Amazon AWS to its own private Z-Cloud. Sony also started to move increasing parts of its workload from Amazon to Rackspace OpenStack. There isn't so much in common between these different use...
Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud Special Guest Post By Nati Shalom, at CloudNewsDaily.com Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps t...
2012 Cloud, PaaS, NoSQL Predictions
2011 is coming to its end and now is a good time to start planning for 2012. I thought that a good start would be too look at my 2011 predictions and if my previous (and first) attempt to predict...
Public vs Private clouds (Again!)- it’s not about the cost
I was reading Geva Perry's post, 10 Predictions about Cloud Computing .. As always I enjoyed reading Geva's throughts and for the most part comletely agree with him. The thing that caught my attention is Geva's point on private...
Five Misconceptions on Cloud Portability
Three years ago when we started working on the first generation of our PaaS offering, cloud portability seemed to be pretty much “mission impossible.” At the time, we made a conscious decision to focus only on Amazon for our first...
Behind the Curtains of Cloudify, GigaSpaces’ new product
Announcing a new product is a major and exciting milestone in a company's lifecycle. Our last announcment was the launch of XAP a few years ago - the Xtreme Application Platform aimed to provide a complete end to end scalability...
Java and Center Stage: Meet us at JavaOne 2011
It seems that now Java is taking center stage in the Cloud world, with more application platforms such as SalesForce/Heroku, VMware, Redhat/OpenShift, Cloud.com, JClouds, and obviously GigaSpaces providing a rich set of offerings that are based on...
Cloudify for Azure
By now, if you’re following GigaSpaces, you should probably have heard about our new Cloudify for Azure offering. In this post I’ll try to provide a high level overview of what this offering is about, how it was conceptualized, and what are its benefits for the end user. Cloudify – [...]
