Virtualization

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 863 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

dynaTrace's Continuous APM System Improves Performance, Scalability

dynaTrace, a provider of performance management and monitoring software, today unveiled the latest release of its third-generation continuous APM system.  The...

1 replies - 1883 views - 09/29/09 by CodeJustin in News

Look Ma, no hypervisor!

Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its...

0 replies - 486 views - 09/29/09 by vambenepe in News

VMWare publishes (and submits) vCloud API

VMWare published its vCloud API yesterday (it was previously only available to a few partners) and submitted it to the DMTF, as had been previously announced....

0 replies - 299 views - 09/04/09 by vambenepe in News

Are these your files? I found them on my cloud

Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get...

0 replies - 896 views - 09/03/09 by vambenepe in News

VMWare to Acquire SpringSource for $362 Million

Virtualization infrastructure provider VMware announced today that it will acquire SpringSource for approximately $362 million in cash and equity plus the...

48 replies - 10644 views - 08/11/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Tactical Data Integration with JBoss Teiid

In this screencast, recorded at the recent JBoss Virtual Experience 2009, Chuck Mosher and Ken Johnson  present the architecture of the JBoss data...

0 replies - 3719 views - 05/07/09 by Nitin Bharti in Videos

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT management...

0 replies - 1718 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

SOA Darwinism & Social BPM - A Fireside Chat with Miko Matsumura

DZone recently sat down with Miko Matsumura, vice president and deputy CTO of SOA products at Software AG webMethods. In this interview, Matsumura describes...

0 replies - 2818 views - 03/31/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles

Cloud computing: would you like flexibility with your simplicity?

The recent announcement of the Sun Cloud, and more specifically its API is a good occasion to think about how much simplicity we really want in our datacenter...

0 replies - 846 views - 03/23/09 by vambenepe in News

Exploring IT management in a changing IT world

The tagline for this blog is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...

0 replies - 1007 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News

Managing the stack from top to bottom, including virtualization

The press release for the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 came out yesterday, but that’s not all: the Oracle VM Management Pack for...

0 replies - 671 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud Computing Platform Comparison: (part 1)

"Cloud computing" is one of the hot topics these days. Especially with the economy downturn, enterprises are looking every opportunity to reduce...

0 replies - 1783 views - 12/23/08 by riho in Articles

Scale-out Appserver GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 released

GigaSpaces XAP 6.6 has been released. XAP, the eXtreme Application Platform, is an application server designed from the ground up to scale out, with...

0 replies - 3430 views - 09/22/08 by Joseph Ottinger in Announcements