Performance

Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge

In the keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld this week, CEO of Oracle Larry Ellison fired back against rumors (that he believes were spread by IBM) about the...

1 replies - 3995 views - 10/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 293 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

Between Elasticity and Scalability

Followup on an interesting question being asked in the Cloud Computing Forum.Definition of Scalability

0 replies - 484 views - 07/22/09 by riho in News

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 - 2618 views - 07/20/09 by Aslam Khan in Articles

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1179 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

Getting Started with Parallel Programming

Multi-core computers have shifted the burden of software performance from chip designers to software architects and developers. In order to gain the full...

6 replies - 9813 views - 06/23/09 by HFadeel in Articles

What is so Hard About Parallel Programming?

I've seen it again.  One more claim that "Parallel programming is hard" and then the claimant launching into some complex and convoluted solution to...

7 replies - 4813 views - 03/31/09 by claybreshears in News

Building LinkedIn's Next Generation Architecture with OSGi by Yan Pujante

This week, I'm attending the Colorado Software Summit in Keystone, Colorado. Below are my notes from an OSGi at LinkedIn presentation I attended by Yan...

0 replies - 3042 views - 10/23/08 by Matt Raible in Articles

Are Data Warehouses Dinosaurs?

As anybody that follows my blog knows, I am not a fan of vertical scaling. I don't like solutions that can only be implemented in a single address and storage...

0 replies - 1073 views - 09/22/08 by driveawedge in News