Cloud Computing
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Java_interface_java_base_class_across_versions
- By Barak Merimovich,
- March 20, 2014
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width=”100%”— layout: blogpost title: Moving from an interface to a base class across Java versions image: barak.jpg author: Barak Merimovich tags: – Cloud Driver – JClouds – Programming – Cloud Computing — Interfaces are one of the core design concepts of Object Oriented Design. They are used for multiple reasons, like enabling multiple implementations of […]
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Four Case Studies for Moving Mission Critical Apps to OpenStack
- By Uri Cohen,
- September 10, 2013
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There’ve been various discussions in the community on OpenStack Interoperability and Portability. The discussions tend to be centralized around the future of the OpenStack API and whether or not it would make sense to support the AWS API on top of OpenStack to allow for better compatibility with the AWS environment. From a recent webinar […]
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Openstack's Third Birthday – A Recap With A Look Into The Future
- By Nati Shalom,
- July 17, 2013
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OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. I remember the first time I heard about the announcement and how it immediately caught my attention. Ever since that day, I have become a strong advocate of the technology. Looking back, I thought that it would be interesting to analyze why. […]
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To Openstack or not to Openstack Moving Enterprise Applications onto Openstack Today
- By Uri Cohen,
- July 15, 2013
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Peter Chadwick Senior Product Manager – Cloud Infrastructure at SUSE wrote an interesting article arguing Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise. Chadwick refers to three main points in his arguments: Variety – OpenStack is the only cloud platform that supports every major hypervisor. Familiarity – OpenStack follows an open source model similar to Linux. Most […]
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Big Data on OpenStack
- By Nati Shalom,
- June 10, 2013
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Big Data systems by their very nature tend to be…Big.Big in the amount of data, in the number and size of infrastructure behind it, etc. Cloud based infrastructure can be a good fit as a cost effecive instrastrucutre for running those Big Data systems. While this may sound obvious, many of the Big Data deployments […]
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Using the Cloudify Player as an Open Source Framework for Building Your Own Cloud Application Marketplace on OpenStack
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 13, 2013
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“(newwindow)In the previous post”:http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/2013/05/amazon-marketplace-not-a-fair-play-thoughts-on-an-open-marketplace-alternative-with-openstack.html, I outlined the main lessons learned from the Amazon Cloud Marketplace and suggested an alternative approach for building an open marketplace. In this post I’ll refer to a specific implementation of that alternative approach through a new Cloudify Service called the Cloudify Player. h3. Introduction to the Cloudify Player Cloudify Player […]
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Amazon Marketplace – Not a Fair Play, Thoughts on an Open Marketplace Alternative with OpenStack
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 13, 2013
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h3. The Promise of a Cloud Application Marketplace The cloud has clearly emerged as the new world. Today, we find ourselves in an era of land-grabbing in which everyone wants the bigger piece of this new world. Amazon has the advantage of being the first to grab. Others would like to follow in Amazon’s footsteps, […]
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DevOps, PaaS and Everything in Between
- By Nati Shalom,
- March 18, 2013
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This month Amazon announced AWS OpsWorks, which is the result of their acquisition of Peritor and the embedding of its Scalarium platform within AWS. OpsWorks is a new framework for simplifying the deployment of applications on the cloud. Given that Amazon already has a few frameworks automating application deployment, such as CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk, I […]
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Carrier Grade Cloud/PaaS
- By Nati Shalom,
- March 7, 2013
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Cloud is becoming the next-generation backbone for running the web As the technology for building and running cloud infrastructure matures, it is starting to spread out into more industries and revolutionizing how even the most conservative organizations are running their entire operations. One of the areas undergoing a transformation is the carrier backbone services. For those who are not familiar, carrier backbone services includes services […]
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GigaSpaces And Storm Part 1 – Storm Clouds
- By DeWayne Filppi,
- March 7, 2013
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Introduction Real-time processing is becoming very popular, and Storm is a popular open source framework and runtime used by Twitter for processing real-time data streams. Storm addresses the complexity of running real time streams through a compute cluster by providing an elegant set of abstractions that make it easier to reason about your problem domain […]
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