Introduction GigaSpaces XAP has lacked an official Cloudify recipe for some time now, and this series of posts will address my efforts to create one. The task of automating the deployment and management of the potentially complex suite of services that XAP represents is a challenge in and of itself, [...]
A couple of days ago Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a significant outage in their US-EAST-1 region. This has been the 5th major outage in that region in the past 18 months. The outage affected leading services such as Reddit, … Continue reading →
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...
Dekel Tankel of GigaSpaces spoke recently to a hip cloud crowd regarding the risks associated with moving an application to the cloud or grid environment. Without a GigaSpaces Space-based architecture (what I refer to as a TPC Architecture ) applica...
In his blog post: here Geva Perry speaks about the dollars and sense regarding setting up shop in a cloud and how GigaSpaces' Elastic Appserver [my term], provides incredible efficiency which leads to greater dollar value realized from your it investm...
Amazon EC2 now makes it possible for failure to be less noticeable within EC2 due to the new ability offered to have an IPAddress move from box to box upon failure. This is really cool because it means you can host your webserver as a service within ...
