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Recently, we have started receiving inquiries about hosting options for SailFin. A few months back SailFin team had setup a demo server in a Go Daddy server. It has worked out quite well so far. Now, Sreeram has written a blog about running SailFin (V2 b20) with Amazon EC2. He gives details such as enabling SIP UDP port, MySQL configuration and using DynDNS to setup the domain name. Try it … |
Jul
10
2009
Jul
01
2009
Governments. Governance. Customers wins. And more.
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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have
to.”
Governments
The Examiner provided a two part interview with Daniel Risascher, Office of
the CIO, Department of Defense, on open source at the DoD, while
Government Technology Magazine reported on how open source software and cloud
computing can save government money. Similarly, The UK
Conservative party delivered a paper on the future of open standards,
open source, SOA and cloud for UK Government, while it was
reported that Vienna to …
Jun
19
2009
EC2 is nifty, but it doesn’t appear suitable for all needs, and that’s what this post is about.
For instance, a machine can just “disappear”. You can set things up to automatically start a new instance to replace it, but if you just committed a transaction it’s likely to be lost: MySQL replication is asynchronous, EBS which is slower if you commit your transactions on it, or EBS snapshots which are only periodic (you’d have to add foo on the application end). This adds complexity, and thus the question arises whether EC2 is the best solution for systems where this is a concern.
When pondering this, there are two important factors to consider: a database server needs cores, RAM and reasonably low-latency disk access, and application servers should be near their database server. This means you shouldn’t split app and db servers to different hosting/cloud providers.
We’d like to hear your thoughts on EC2 …
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Jun
18
2009
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Several teams at Sun have collaborated to put together a Virtual Machine Template for the GlassFish WebSpace Server. The image is available in a number of formats for VirtualBox (OVF, VDI) and for VMware Workstation (VMDK) and VMware Server ESX (VMDK) and bundles WebSpace, GlassFish, MySQL, and a JeOS prototype of OpenSolaris. With this image the evaluation of WSS is very easy: I … |
Jun
09
2009
Vyatta raises series C funding. Greenplum launches data cloud initiative. Fedora 11. And more.
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# Vyatta raised $10m in series C round, led by Citrix.
# Carlo Daffara published Horses, carriages and cars an assessment of the shifting OSS business models, and a proposal of what is the optimal model.
# Greenplum delivered version 3.3 of its analytical database, launched its Enterprise Data Cloud initiative.
# Daniel Abadi asked whether betting on the MySQL mass market for data warehousing a good idea.
# Roberto Galoppini …
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Jun
05
2009
Spring forward. Freeloaders, leeches and hermits. Intel buys Wind River. And more.
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A Spring in its step
SpringSource boasted of rapid revenue growth while CEO Rod
Johnson claimed
that Red Hat’s Open Choice initiative is defensive response to
SpringSource, a suggestion that was denied by Rich Sharples.
Freeloaders, leeches and hermits
I already provided my views earlier this week on Infoworld’s
report about open source ‘leeches’ and corporate contributions.
The debate continued as Dave Rosenberg …
Apr
24
2009
It's interesting that just as Apple announced surprisingly positive quarterly results, Microsoft announced their first decline in sales revenues in 23 years. While Microsoft is not in any kind
Apr
23
2009
Today’s Great Open Cloud Shootout was great fun — at least for me! I had the pleasure to tease these distinguished gentlemen with cloudy questions:
- Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, Sun Microsystems
- Monty Taylor, MySQL Drizzle Geek, Sun Microsystems
- Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist
- Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
- Thorsten von Eicken, CTO, RightScale
- Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook
- Mike Culver, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
I tried to provoke the panelists with questions around some areas I had thought out:
- So, what is a cloud anyway?
- Who is the cloud for?
- Why use the cloud?
- Cloud adoption barriers
- Are there cloud standards?
- Cloud Business Opportunities
- Cloud Competition
- Databases & Clouds …
Apr
22
2009
I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the
The Great Open Cloud Shootout.
Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in
the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:
What is cloud ?
| Thorsten | Fully automatbale computing infrastructure, changes the way production scale deployments operate, saves time/cost, increases reliability |
| Chander | Elasiticity is an important aspect, Can "shoot for the moon without shooting foot", accessing a pool of resources which is infinite from an individual/organization … |
Apr
22
2009
I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the
The Great Open Cloud Shootout.
Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in
the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:
What is cloud ?
| Thorsten | Fully automatbale computing infrastructure, changes the way production scale deployments operate, saves time/cost, increases reliability |
| Chander | Elasiticity is an important aspect, Can "shoot for the moon without shooting foot", accessing a pool of resources which is infinite from an individual/organization … |