Grid Computing

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 2104 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing

Amazon is the current leader of Cloud provider based on the IaaS model. At the heart of its technology stack, they have the virtual machine layer called EC2....

0 replies - 1379 views - 11/13/09 by riho in News

Notes on Memcached

Some notes about Memcached. Here is its architecture.How it works ?

0 replies - 1372 views - 11/02/09 by riho in News

Who has the Best Cloud? Developers Weigh In

Over 400 software developers recently ranked leading cloud service providers in a study released today by Evans Data Corp.  The survey gauged opinions on...

1 replies - 4108 views - 10/08/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Traditional SaaS vs Cloud Enabled SaaS

Inspired by Gilad's great summary on the Cloud Programming model, I try to summarize the difference that I observe between the traditional SaaS model and the...

0 replies - 2230 views - 08/27/09 by riho in Articles

ScaleOut Unveils Management Pack for Parallel Backup

ScaleOut Software, a provider of distributed caching and data grid technology, has released the ScaleOut Management Pack, extending its current offering for...

0 replies - 1087 views - 08/12/09 by CodeJustin in News

Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing

In Part 2, Peter described optimization of infrastructure for green computing and how Windows Azure is different from other clouds.  In this final part, Peter...

0 replies - 805 views - 08/10/09 by pkoen in Articles

Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing

In part 1, Peter introduced green computing with Azure.  He discussed where power saving can be achieved and the four levels of optimizing your...

0 replies - 956 views - 08/03/09 by pkoen in Articles

Rackspace Cloud API is Now Open Source

Rackspace Hosting announced it has open sourced the specifications for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution...

0 replies - 1232 views - 07/28/09 by CodeJustin in News

MS Azure and Green Computing

In this three part series, Peter Koen shares his paper titled "Move to the Blue Cloud and get Green". He discusses how Microsoft Windows Azure can...

0 replies - 975 views - 07/27/09 by pkoen in Articles

Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces, talks about eXtreme Application Platform 7.0

GigaSpaces Technologies last week announced the launch of eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) 7.0, an enterprise grade application server designed for deploying...

0 replies - 2797 views - 07/20/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s...

1 replies - 426 views - 05/27/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud Security Considerations

"Security concern" is perhaps one of the biggest hurdle for enterprises to move their application from in-house data center to the public cloud....

1 replies - 1837 views - 05/18/09 by riho in Articles

Cloud API: what’s cooking between IBM and VMWare?

In the previous entry, I declared that I had a “guess as to why [the DMTF Cloud] incubator was created without a submission”, that I may later reveal. Well...

2 replies - 1124 views - 05/04/09 by vambenepe in News

A pulp view of Cloud computing politics

As promised, here are some more thoughts on the creation by DMTF of an incubator for Cloud standards. The first part of this blog asks whether DMTF will play...

0 replies - 979 views - 04/30/09 by vambenepe in News