eclipse
News
SMB Cloud Is A Hacker's ParadiseCloud computing and social media are increasingly popular with small and medium-sized businesses and the SMB segment is of increasing importance to solution vendors and service providers. But, the silver cloud has a dark lining - security. SMB users are largely defenseless and unaware in the face of a growing hacker horde, while many vendors and providers downplay the threat and offer marginal defenses. If this doesn't change, SMB users may spurn the new technologies. If they do that, it will seriously stunt the growth of public cloud adoption and monetized social networking. Making public clouds safe for SMB is a hard problem, but its solution is imperative for everyone.
eclipse developer's journal | 10-Sep-2010 05:45
Eucalyptus Cloud Project Revved
Eucalyptus Systems was expected to update the eponymous open source private cloud project Wednesday improving the free GPL-based widgetry's scaling. Eucalyptus 2.0, described as a major rev, is supposed to be able to support massive private and hybrid clouds. Its performance has also been enhanced and it should deploy without modification on existing IT infrastructure. The company can't quantify exactly how scalable the thing is but its notion of scalability includes both front-end transactional scalability and back-end resource scalability. Eucalyptus 2.0 provides increased back-end cluster as well as node controller scale improvements.
eclipse developer's journal | 05-Sep-2010 16:00
The Trouble with Tape
Tape backups are expensive, require a lot of manual intervention, leave gaps in protection and have high failure rates. If you can’t afford to lose time and data, software-based replication and restoration may be a better solution.
eclipse developer's journal | 03-Sep-2010 14:27
Cloud 3.0 - #Cloud Linked Data
Cloud will accelerate adoption of a wide range of apps, including those for Semantic 'Web 3.0'
eclipse developer's journal | 09-Aug-2010 12:30
Servoy to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Servoy, a provider of open source hybrid (SaaS and on premises) software, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–4, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Servoy BV is an international market leader in powerful open source hybrid (SaaS and on premises) software. Servoy is used by independent software vendors (ISVs) to develop entire vertical and horizontal applications and by internal developers for bespoke application development.
eclipse developer's journal | 08-Aug-2010 22:00
Cloud Computing, SOA and Windows Azure
Microsoft’s Software-plus-Services strategy represents a view of the world where the growing feature-set of devices and the increasing ubiquity of the Web are combined to deliver more compelling solutions. Software-plus-Services represents an evolutionary step that is based on existing best practices in IT and extends the application potential of core service-orientation design principles. The Windows Azure platform represents one of the major components of the Software-plus-Services strategy, as Microsoft’s cloud computing operating environment, designed from the outset to holistically manage pools of computation, storage and networking; all encapsulated by one or more services.
eclipse developer's journal | 01-Aug-2010 23:45
Cloud Computing, SOA and Windows Azure
Microsoft’s Software-plus-Services strategy represents a view of the world where the growing feature-set of devices and the increasing ubiquity of the Web are combined to deliver more compelling solutions. Software-plus-Services represents an evolutionary step that is based on existing best practices in IT and extends the application potential of core service-orientation design principles. The Windows Azure platform represents one of the major components of the Software-plus-Services strategy, as Microsoft’s cloud computing operating environment, designed from the outset to holistically manage pools of computation, storage and networking; all encapsulated by one or more services.
eclipse developer's journal | 01-Aug-2010 23:45
Terracotta Swells Ehcache to a Terabyte
Terracotta is out to cure skimpy cache by making Ehcache really, really big, 1TB in fact, a size only a few people can use right now, but just you wait, it says, the day is upon us when practically everybody with a database will want it to be in-memory. The biggest caches these days are still 100GB-200GB and they’re a lot of work to build. Maybe there are two or three that hit 200 GB. The average, on the other hand, is more like sub-20 gigs. Terracotta swears it’s made it easy to store over a terabyte of data and hundreds of millions of entries in a single cache, so data retrieval is a whole lot faster and clouds and virtualization aren’t bottlenecked.
eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2010 17:30
IBM to Set Up Polish Cloud
IBM Poland and the Wroclaw University of Technology are going to set up the first university cloud computing center in Poland for students and professors, industry partners and government agencies. The school is supposed to create a new academic curriculum based mainly on IBM Tivoli software and make cloud-focused courses available to 1,500 students. They said cloud computing skills are increasingly in demand by Polish employers. The school is the first university to become part of IBM’s Multipurpose Cloud Computing Center established this year and opened to all institutes of higher learning. Last year IBM and the Polish government signed an agreement to cooperate on the creation of a new IBM IT service delivery center in Wroclaw.
eclipse developer's journal | 31-Jul-2010 14:30
IBM Unveils its ‘System of Systems’
zEnterprise it is then. That’s the name of the new hybridized cross-platform IBM mainframe system that arrived like we said it would on Thursday to be described as the most significant change in the mainframe platform in 20 years. It’s supposed to the fastest, most powerful, scalable, power-efficient mainframe ever, capable of managing 100,000 virtualized servers as a single system. And, like we said, that single virtualized system can be the box core zEnterprise 196 mainframe and ancillary Power7 and System x servers sharing resources complements of IBM’s newfangled zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension and Unified Resource Manager, which reduces hypervisors (except the z/VM) to firmware.
eclipse developer's journal | 24-Jul-2010 18:00
Eucalyptus Rival Gets Funding
Morphlabs Inc, the start-up revving up to go into direct competition with Eucalyptus Systems hawking its take on the same Eucalyptus open source cloud platform to the same customer set, has gotten a $5.5 million B round to fuel its coming push in the U.S. and Japan. The rivalry may be a little uneven. Eucalyptus Systems just got $20 million and reportedly has a lot of its $5.5 million first round left. Morphlabs CEO Winston Damarillo says the round was oversubscribed so the amount might actually work out to be more. It was led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG) with new investor Frontera Group joining existing investors CSK Venture Capital and AO Capital Partners.
eclipse developer's journal | 17-Jul-2010 13:45
Cloud Forensics: Challenges and Opportunities at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Cloud computing has the potential to become one of the most transformative developments in how information technology services are created, delivered, and accessed. Cloud security is by far the most discussed aspect of cloud adoption and the new environment for rising cybercrime also demands that the principles and procedures of cyber forensics be upgraded to better suit the cloud environment. In her session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Keyun Ruan, PhD Candidate at the Centre for Cybercrime Investigation in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin, will provide a summary of the current state of the art of "cloud forensics" and an analysis of its challenges and opportunities.
eclipse developer's journal | 10-Jul-2010 19:00
IBM Reinvents the Mainframe
So IBM has reinvented the mainframe, apparently reducing the behemoth to a blade. Sources say it’s ported its precious z/OS to a newfangled 5.2GHz quad-core z processor with two times the cache of the old z10 chip and a hundred new instructions, built a new z196 system round it, stuck it in a chassis, otherwise called a cage, added a BladeCenter Extension – Power7 blades that’ll run AIX and x86 blades running Linux – thrown in a Unified Resource Manager and has the whole lot sharing memory and disk space. It has, they say, achieved its fondly held dream of a converged architecture. And this, as they also say, is a very big deal.
eclipse developer's journal | 04-Jul-2010 16:00
Eucalyptus Closes $20M Round
Open source private cloud ISV Eucalyptus Systems, where ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos is now CEO, closed on a second round worth $20 million in all of three weeks – ah, the Mickos magic – bringing total investment in the joint to $25.5 million. The new money brings in a new investor New Enterprise Associates, which led the round and gets a board seat for Peter Sonsini, one of NEA’s well-connected partners. Current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital – Eucalyptus still has over $3 million of their round left – also kicked in. Marten says the money will be used mostly to double the size of the company from 25 to 50 by the end of the year. It’s currently looking for a VP of marketing and someone to run professional services.
eclipse developer's journal | 03-Jul-2010 19:00
The Planet Undercuts Amazon
The Planet, which, come to find out, is suitably named since it’s the largest of the privately held U.S. hosters with eight data centers and 50,000-odd servers playing host to 18,000 SMB companies and 12 million web sites worldwide, has a new Server Cloud that undercuts Amazon. Amazon jacks up its bandwidth charges 700%–800% over cost, Planet’s practically scandalized senior product manager for cloud services Carl Meadows tsk-tsks. The Planet is offering a far more reasonable prix fixe menu compared to Amazon’s à la carte prices. Its bandwidth price alone is more like eight cents a gig to Amazon’s 22 cents. And the infrastructure Planet is pitching initially at hosting companies and hosting resellers is distinctly enterprise-class and purpose-built for web-based businesses: Sun SANs, rack-mounted dual-Nehalem-based Dell servers, a Cisco and Juniper powered network. None of your shoddy local disks, it says, that can leave customers vulnerable to hardware failures, downtime and data loss.
eclipse developer's journal | 03-Jul-2010 12:00
Sun’s Ex-Cloud CTO Finds Home at Cisco
Lew Tucker, who was CTO of Sun’s cloud initiative and was pretty much untouched by the cloud-aborting Oracle, has been hired by Cisco as CTO of its cloud effort, a brand new job with broad pull-it-together remit that reports to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and Service Provider Group boss Tony Bates. In a previous life he led the design and implementation of salesforce.com’s App Exchange arguably one of the largest cloud computing success stories so far. He thinks networks need to be more programmable.
eclipse developer's journal | 26-Jun-2010 19:00
Sun’s Ex-Cloud CTO Finds Home at Cisco
Lew Tucker, who was CTO of Sun’s cloud initiative and was pretty much untouched by the cloud-aborting Oracle, has been hired by Cisco as CTO of its cloud effort, a brand new job with broad pull-it-together remit that reports to Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and Service Provider Group boss Tony Bates. In a previous life he led the design and implementation of salesforce.com’s App Exchange arguably one of the largest cloud computing success stories so far. He thinks networks need to be more programmable.
eclipse developer's journal | 26-Jun-2010 19:00
Eucalyptus and HP New Best Friends
Eucalyptus Systems and HP are new BFFs. The little open source cloud vendor now run by former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos has joined HP’s Developer and Solution Partner Program. Eucalyptus’ other BFF is Canonical whose latest Ubuntu distro includes Eucalyptus. As a buddy of HP, there’s some mumble about Eucalyptus’ private cloud technology on optimized HP computing and storage hardware and delivering tailor-made solutions. Well, anyway, it’s verified. Eucalyptus also works with Dell, Novell and VMware, as well as RightScale, newScale and Wavemaker.
eclipse developer's journal | 26-Jun-2010 14:00
Introducing the Objectivity Eclipse CDO
Objectivity is providing an Objectivity CDO data store for the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) community. The goal of providing this plug-in is to give the Java community of developers who use Eclipse EMF a fast and simple way to integrate their applications to Objectivity/DB . The Objectivity CDO store will allow development teams to integrate Objectivity/DB without having to learn the Objectivity API, cutting learning down by 90%. Many of Objectivity's customers have cited time-to-market as one of the reasons for choosing Objectivity. Recognizing the importance to development teams to quickly integrate and deploy systems, Objectivity has set out to find additional ways to make time-to-market a strength of our value proposition. As the market for customers who are building high-performance Java applications continues to grow, Objectivity is looking to leverage the powerful tools offered by the Eclipse open source community to provide more choices for the Eclipse user community.
eclipse developer's journal | 21-Jun-2010 19:57
Introducing the Objectivity Eclipse CDO
Objectivity is providing an Objectivity CDO data store for the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) community. The goal of providing this plug-in is to give the Java community of developers who use Eclipse EMF a fast and simple way to integrate their applications to Objectivity/DB . The Objectivity CDO store will allow development teams to integrate Objectivity/DB without having to learn the Objectivity API, cutting learning down by 90%. Many of Objectivity's customers have cited time-to-market as one of the reasons for choosing Objectivity. Recognizing the importance to development teams to quickly integrate and deploy systems, Objectivity has set out to find additional ways to make time-to-market a strength of our value proposition. As the market for customers who are building high-performance Java applications continues to grow, Objectivity is looking to leverage the powerful tools offered by the Eclipse open source community to provide more choices for the Eclipse user community.
eclipse developer's journal | 21-Jun-2010 19:57
Oracle’s Arun Gupta to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
GlassFish v3, the Reference Implementation of Java EE 6, can easily run on multiple cloud infrastructures. This session will provide a brief introduction to Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Arun Gupta, Java EE and GlassFish evangelist working at Oracle, will explain how to create a simple Java EE 6 sample application and deploy it on GlassFish v3 running locally and then deploy it using Amazon, RightScale, Joyent, and Elastra cloud infrastructures.
eclipse developer's journal | 19-Jun-2010 18:15
The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem
In the run-up to the two next Cloud Expos, 6th Cloud Expo (June 21–22, 2010) in Prague, Czech Republic and 7th Cloud Expo (November 1–4, 2010) being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley, it's time to give my earlier list a complete overhaul. Here, accordingly, is an expanded list of the most active players in the Cloud Ecosystem.
eclipse developer's journal | 17-Jun-2010 07:45
Looks Like Sculley’s Finally Got His Newton
One-time Apple CEO John Sculley, the PepsiCo misfit who was just reflecting for the benefit of the Daily Beast that maybe he should never have been CEO of Apple and maybe he should have brought back Steve Jobs a lot sooner, still seems obsessed with bringing the Newton – or its update – to market even if it means taking on Saint Steve and his “magical” iPad. Unless something has really changed Sculley’s got money in an eight-year-old Florida outfit called OpenPeak – enough to have rated a board seat – and OpenPeak just raised a tidy $52 million – from Intel among others – on top of a $30 million C round it got in late 2007 from Morton Topfer, the former vice-chairman of Dell now a managing director of Castletop Capital, and RRE Ventures among others. And OpenPeak’s got a PDA-style tablet or maybe it’s a tablet-style PDA – Sculley is credited with inventing the term PDA – that may or may not give the iPad a run for its money.
eclipse developer's journal | 12-Jun-2010 17:00
CloudCamp @ Cloud Expo Europe To Be Held June 21, 2010 in Prague
Further cementing its position as the fastest-growing and highest-energy cloud computing event in the world, the organizers of the 6th International Cloud Expo being held at the Prague Hilton in the Czech Republic on June 21-22, 2010, announced today that the event will also feature - on June 21st - a @CloudCamp unconference. CloudCamp @ CloudExpo Europe is aimed at anyone working with, or interested in working with, cloud technologies.
eclipse developer's journal | 07-Jun-2010 17:30
BIRT Excel Output
BIRT 2.5.2 provides a variety of tools to construct reports to analyze data. These include charts, aggregation elements, drill to detail capabilities, nested tables, data cubes and crosstabs. These features are presented very well in the AJAX based viewer when deployed to the web, supporting pagination, table of contents, and exporting of data and contents to other formats. Out of the box, BIRT supports exporting to HTML, paginated HTML, WORD, PDF, PostScript, PPT, and Excel. BIRT also provides an extension point to implement your own emitters. For an example of implementing an XML emitter see Developing an Eclipse BIRT XML Report Rendering Extension or BIRT: Writing an Emitter.
eclipse developer's journal | 02-Jun-2010 21:26
BIRT Excel Output
BIRT 2.5.2 provides a variety of tools to construct reports to analyze data. These include charts, aggregation elements, drill to detail capabilities, nested tables, data cubes and crosstabs. These features are presented very well in the AJAX based viewer when deployed to the web, supporting pagination, table of contents, and exporting of data and contents to other formats. Out of the box, BIRT supports exporting to HTML, paginated HTML, WORD, PDF, PostScript, PPT, and Excel. BIRT also provides an extension point to implement your own emitters. For an example of implementing an XML emitter see Developing an Eclipse BIRT XML Report Rendering Extension or BIRT: Writing an Emitter.
eclipse developer's journal | 02-Jun-2010 21:26
Novell Revenues Down 5.4%
Novell, the world’s second biggest Linux provider pushed into shopping itself, earned $19.9 million, or six cents a share, in its second fiscal quarter ended April 30 on revenues of $204 million, down 5.4% year-over-year and roughly in line with estimates. Operating income was also down $5 million to $30 million. Total deferred revenue was $615 million, down from $659 million year-over-year. Novell’s not getting the Microsoft tickle it did last year. It seems Microsoft bought SUSE certificates at a 45% discount and now any revenues come in at an 85% discount. Novell said it would probably see below expected revenues of $205 million-$210 million this quarter.
eclipse developer's journal | 29-May-2010 01:45
Microsoft Unlocks Outlook Data
In the name of interoperability, Microsoft Monday announced two open source projects that are supposed to go along with the technical documentation on Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) that it recently released. It said that the documentation and tools together should advance interoperability with the data stored in .pst files and satisfy customer requests for greater access to that data as well as enhance data portability. Apparently developers can use the stuff to build solutions, “including competitive products, that run on top of the .pst file format, unlocking data stored in .pst files in simple scenarios, such as extracting photos stored in .pst files to create an album, as well as more complex scenarios, including archive search, e-discovery and corporate compliance, and uploading data to the cloud.”
eclipse developer's journal | 29-May-2010 01:00
3scale Networks Named “Wireless Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Europe
SYS-CON Events announced today that 3scale Networks, a provider of infrastructure for the programmable web, has been named “Wireless Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 6th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 21–22, 2010, at the Hilton Prague Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! 3scale provides a SaaS API Management infrastructure enabling companies to build and grow their API business while keeping control over the distribution and usage of their data, content and services. For additional information, visit http://www.3scale.net/ .
eclipse developer's journal | 29-May-2010 00:00
Amplidata CEO Wim De Wispelaere to Present at Cloud Expo Europe
Scalability, availability, low power consumption and low operational costs are key properties when planning to build large scale storage clouds. In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Wim De Wispelaere, Co-Founder & CEO of Amplidata, will demonstrate how you can build your private storage cloud with less disk capacity, consuming less power and on a smaller footprint. You will learn how automated self-management, healing and integrity checking will allow you to scale your storage capacity beyond petabytes while keeping your operational costs under control.
eclipse developer's journal | 28-May-2010 05:15
Best Practices for Building Linux Installers
Linux developers, stop building RPM packages that don't install properly. Watch this Webinar to learn how to build professional Linux installers fast that install your applications reliably on Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, and more. If you develop Linux applications for commercial use, it's critical that your software installs correctly the first time. Learn how the world's biggest software companies are building error-free installers for their Linux applications.
eclipse developer's journal | 26-May-2010 22:15
Google and Eclipse Foundation To Launch Eclipse Labs
The Eclipse Foundation has announced Eclipse Labs, a Google hosted portal that will showcase open source projects based on Eclipse. Its main objective is to feature projects that do not need to go through the rigorous processes expected of official Eclipse projects and to provide visibility to those that could be on their way to getting the official stamp. According to Mike Milinkovich , Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse Labs allows developers to build a project with access to an issue-tracking system; source code repository, including Subversion or Mercurial; and a project Web site. Google has migrated two projects to the Eclipse Labs: that Workspace Mechanic for Eclipse, that automates maintenance of Eclipse environment and an Eclipse plug-in for the Google Project Hosting issue tracker called Project Hosting Connector for Mylyn. Check out the beta version of Eclipse Labs currently hosted on Google Project Hosting . The default license is EPL (Eclipse Public License) but one can change it to the other licenses available on Google Code.
eclipse developer's journal | 18-May-2010 04:00
Google and Eclipse Foundation To Launch Eclipse Labs
The Eclipse Foundation has announced Eclipse Labs, a Google hosted portal that will showcase open source projects based on Eclipse. Its main objective is to feature projects that do not need to go through the rigorous processes expected of official Eclipse projects and to provide visibility to those that could be on their way to getting the official stamp. According to Mike Milinkovich , Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, Eclipse Labs allows developers to build a project with access to an issue-tracking system; source code repository, including Subversion or Mercurial; and a project Web site. Google has migrated two projects to the Eclipse Labs: that Workspace Mechanic for Eclipse, that automates maintenance of Eclipse environment and an Eclipse plug-in for the Google Project Hosting issue tracker called Project Hosting Connector for Mylyn. Check out the beta version of Eclipse Labs currently hosted on Google Project Hosting . The default license is EPL (Eclipse Public License) but one can change it to the other licenses available on Google Code.
eclipse developer's journal | 18-May-2010 04:00
They Say iPhone’s Next Feature Will Be a Cry ‘Help, I’ve Been Kidnapped’
So Gizmodo has lawyered up. And blogger Jason Chen has lawyered up. And the seller of Apple’s errant billion-dollar iPhone prototype – identified by Wired as 21-year-old college dropout Brian Hogan – has lawyered up while Apple has been hoist on Jon Stewart’s “Comedy Central” petard as a bunch of heavy-handed “appholes” because of the whole affair. The first thing the lawyer for Gizmodo did was to put it about that Gizmodo could sue the police for melodramatically breaking down Chen’s front door last Friday night and carting away all his computer equipment and other electronic paraphernalia – which is apparently still sitting untouched at a forensic lab somewhere waiting for somebody to decide if a crime has been committed like Apple alleges.
eclipse developer's journal | 01-May-2010 00:15
Red Hat Strikes Deeper into Amazon
Red Hat handed out a new permission slip first thing Tuesday morning, saying that its Advanced Platform Premium and Server Premium subscribers are entitled to Red Hat Cloud Access. In other words, they’re free to move their supported RHEL widgetry between traditional on-premise servers and Amazon Web Services via EC2. Other Certified Cloud Providers will follow in due course. Red Hat’s been beta’ing RHEL on Amazon for two-and-a-half years now. Product strategy director Mike Ferris called it a beta as in business model. A couple of strings with the Cloud Access program though. The fine print says to qualify customers need a minimum of 25 “active, unused” subscriptions and a direct (L1-L3) relationship with Red Hat support. Third-party support makes them ineligible. Red Hat Academic Program and desktop customers can’t cut it either.
eclipse developer's journal | 30-Apr-2010 21:15
Steve Jobs Walks on Water
Apple hit the ball so far out of the stadium Tuesday it was still in the air when it put out its “best non-holiday” numbers ever. Revenues were up 49% to $13.5 billion. Earnings were up a giddy 87% to $3.1 billion net, or $3.33 a share, with a gross margin of 41.7%, up from 39.9%. It beat expectations of $2.45 on $12 billion. That crunching sound you heard was Apple crushing estimates. iPhone sales were up 131% to 8.75 million in the company’s second fiscal quarter, the widget’s best showing ever, up 474% in Asia-Pac.
eclipse developer's journal | 23-Apr-2010 23:45
Exclusive Q&A with Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm
Cloud Computing Journal caught up with Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo - a major new player in the fast-emerging Cloud ecosystem - Abiquo. Malcolm will be keynoting at 5th Cloud Expo in New York on April 21st. His theme is what he calls "The next chapter in the Virtualization story." As Malcolm puts it: "Virtualized or not, the infrastructure beast is becoming uncontrollable. But, as they say, big change is a-coming..."
eclipse developer's journal | 15-Apr-2010 10:45
The Goldfish Effect
You virtualized your applications. You set up an architecture that supports auto-scaling (on-demand) to free up your operators. All is going well, until the end of the month. Applications are failing. Not just one, but all of them. After hours of digging into operational dashboards and logs and monitoring consoles you find the problem: one of the applications, which experiences extremely heavy processing demands at the end of the month, has scaled itself out too far and too fast for its environment. One goldfish has gobbled up the food and has grown too large for its bowl. It’s not as crazy an idea as it might sound at first. If you haven’t implemented the right policies in the right places in your shiny new on-demand architecture, you might just be allowing for such a scenario to occur. Whether it’s due to unforeseen legitimate demand or a DoS-style attack without the right limitations (policies) in place to ensure that an application has scaling boundaries you might inadvertently cause a denial of service and outages to other applications by eliminating resources they need.
eclipse developer's journal | 14-Apr-2010 23:04
The Goldfish Effect
You virtualized your applications. You set up an architecture that supports auto-scaling (on-demand) to free up your operators. All is going well, until the end of the month. Applications are failing. Not just one, but all of them. After hours of digging into operational dashboards and logs and monitoring consoles you find the problem: one of the applications, which experiences extremely heavy processing demands at the end of the month, has scaled itself out too far and too fast for its environment. One goldfish has gobbled up the food and has grown too large for its bowl. It’s not as crazy an idea as it might sound at first. If you haven’t implemented the right policies in the right places in your shiny new on-demand architecture, you might just be allowing for such a scenario to occur. Whether it’s due to unforeseen legitimate demand or a DoS-style attack without the right limitations (policies) in place to ensure that an application has scaling boundaries you might inadvertently cause a denial of service and outages to other applications by eliminating resources they need.
eclipse developer's journal | 14-Apr-2010 23:04
Microsoft About to Turn Pink
Microsoft is supposed to trot out Project Pink, its long-awaited new smartphone platform with its new UI and social networking widgetry on Monday, April 12. Gismodo says it’s Windows CE-based (not Windows Phone 7, which is due out later this year and will mean different applications). There are reportedly two Microsoft-designed Sharp-made phones, Pure and Turtle, that’ll be sold by Verizon Wireless. According to comScore Microsoft currently has 15.1% of the U.S. market, Google 9% and iPhone 25.4%. Microsoft is depending on the Windows Phone 7 release for a tickler.
eclipse developer's journal | 09-Apr-2010 23:30
Univa UD to Exhibit at Cloud Expo East
SYS-CON Events announced today that Univa UD, a leading provider of cloud management software, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com ), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Univa UD is a leading provider of cloud management software. Companies worldwide use our award-winning products to build and manage internal cloud environments, leverage public cloud services, and enable cloud service offerings for end customers. Univa offers the widest range of production-ready private, public and hybrid cloud management products available anywhere, including cloud infrastructure management and service governance. For over a decade, Univa products have delivered measurable business value to organizations of all kinds by reducing costs, increasing resource utilization, and optimizing the computing environment. With a focus on making business easier for customers, Univa is advancing the vision and practice of cloud computing.
eclipse developer's journal | 31-Mar-2010 23:45
Cloud Computing Bootcamp Returns to Cloud Expo in New York April 20, 2010
No one can properly understand anything related to enterprise-level Cloud Computing without having first gained a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players. SYS-CON's pioneering Cloud Computing Bootcamp is designed with that in mind. It is a one-day, fully immersive deep-dive into the Cloud, in which the sessions during the day seek to give delegates a deep understanding of the capabilities of different Cloud players and how they address rapidly changing market demands. The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held next in conjunction the 5th Cloud Expo in New York, NY (April 20, 2010). It is led by our 2010 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho.
eclipse developer's journal | 27-Mar-2010 15:15
Novell to Support KVM
In a clear case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, it appears that Novell is going to start supporting KVM virtualization like Red Hat does with the Service Pack 1 release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 this summer. According to the HOpen blog it’ll handle guest systems for SLES 9-11, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4-5. Host systems can run 32- or 64-bit guests and support up to 16 virtual CPUs, 512GB of RAM and eight network interfaces. Like Red Hat, Novell will support both Xen and KVM – at least in the short term – even preferring Xen for the moment –but where Citrix and its Xen alliance with Novell wind up remain to be seen.
eclipse developer's journal | 26-Mar-2010 18:15
Willie Nelson, God, and Cloud Computing
Hard to restrain one's self 24/7/365, know what I mean? http://bit.ly/c90Y2T I was actually a bigger fan of Waylon, who sung with Willie on the song I reference in the above link. But Willie sang the specific lyric that I mention, so I had to go with him. Putting him in front of God in the headline is not meant to make offense; it's just that the storyline followed the three subjects in the head in that particular order. I've been reading about and writing about Cloud Computing non-stop for awhile, and am gearing up for the Cloud Expo in New York, at the Javits Center April 19-21.
eclipse developer's journal | 25-Mar-2010 09:38
Willie Nelson, God, and Cloud Computing
Hard to restrain one's self 24/7/365, know what I mean? http://bit.ly/c90Y2T I was actually a bigger fan of Waylon, who sung with Willie on the song I reference in the above link. But Willie sang the specific lyric that I mention, so I had to go with him. Putting him in front of God in the headline is not meant to make offense; it's just that the storyline followed the three subjects in the head in that particular order. I've been reading about and writing about Cloud Computing non-stop for awhile, and am gearing up for the Cloud Expo in New York, at the Javits Center April 19-21.
eclipse developer's journal | 25-Mar-2010 09:38
Case Study: Moving High-Performance Graphics Workstations to the Cloud
We have heard a lot about Cloud Computing and Saas, but what about moving high-performance graphics workstations to the cloud? This article describes how Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, located in Charlotte, NC, built a Private Cloud that included their high-performance graphics workstations (HPGW). The Little Cloud is in production and on track to reduce their workstation and laptop hardware expense by 67% ($2M) over the next 10 years. The current economy has been challenging for all organizations and has caused everyone to rethink everything. The driving force behind this cloud innovation at Little is Building Information Modeling (BIM). Designers are now able to construct a fully documented, 3D building in a computer before they actually build it on-site. This requires a lot of computer power and a few obstacles. Little’s cloud strategy “kills 11 birds with one stone” and has many applications outside of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.
eclipse developer's journal | 24-Mar-2010 10:00