The Cloudify Blog
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Community Update – Sep 19th 2012
- By Tamir Korem,
- July 10, 2012
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Hi Cloudsters, Just a quick update on the things we’ve been working on lately: Chef Integration We have been enhancing the integration with the DevOps tool Chef. For those who are not familiar with Chef, it is an excellent tool for setting up your environment and automating complex IT processes. Chef automates common installation and […]
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Extending Chef to manage the entire application lifecycle
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- July 9, 2012
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Below are the recording of the webinar held a couple of days ago, in case you couldn’t catch it live, as well as the slideshare. We’re currently putting together our list of upcoming webinars for the next couple of months, feel free to suggest topics that you’re interested in hearing about, and we’ll try our […]
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What's Cool in Cloudify 2.1.1
- By Yaron Parasol,
- July 9, 2012
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We are happy to announce a new Cloudify service pack (2.1.1) released yesterday that is now GA. This service pack provides many stability improvements thanks to input we received from our customers and community users who have reported issues and asked questions about their specific use cases. In addition, this release includes the enhanced, and […]
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Gigaspaces and Mirantis – Big Data On OpenStack
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- June 22, 2012
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Below are the slide deck and the videos from the June 21st San Francisco Cloud Mafia meetup on the topic of “Big Data on OpenStack” with GigaSpaces, and Mirantis. GigaSpaces Presenter: Uri Cohen, VP Product Management Topic: Deploying Your Big Data App on OpenStack The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support […]
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Lessons From The Heroku Amazon Outage
- By Nati Shalom,
- June 18, 2012
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Earlier this week we experienced the third significant AWS outage in the past 14 months, as reported by Justin Lee in his report Heroku, Pinterest Among Sites Knocked Offline in Amazon Data Center Outage on theWhirr magazine: An Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia suffered a power outage at 9:45 p.m. PDT on Thursday, causing some websites using AWS […]
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Cloud On-Boarding – The True Story
- By Dotan Horovits,
- June 3, 2012
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Everyone wants to be in the cloud. Organizations have internalized the notion and have plans in place to migrate their applications to the cloud in the immediate future. According to Cisco’s recent global cloud survey: Presently, only 5 percent of IT decision makers have been able to migrate at least half of their total applications […]
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PaaS, Does It Really Mean No-Ops?
- By Yaron Parasol,
- May 28, 2012
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PaaS, Does It Really Mean No-Ops? I’d like to start with a brief overview of the evolution of the cloud – and why I think a new approach to PaaS solutions is needed – and the best scenarios for this to come into play. First there was IaaS. Cloud was created with the notion of […]
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Bare-Metal PaaS
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 20, 2012
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The Rise of Bare-Metal Clouds Cloud and Virtualization are not mandatory, and the number of cloud providers that supports bare-metal clouds is growing, as David Linthicum pointed out in his article Going native: The move to bare-metal cloud services It’s a fact that virtualization is not a requirement when creating cloud computing services, but it is helpful to those […]
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Cloud integration and DevOps automation experience shared
- By Dotan Horovits,
- May 13, 2012
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Cloud integration and DevOps automation experience shared The Cloud carries the message of automation to system architecture. The ability to spin up VMs on demand and take them down when no longer needed as per the applications’ real-time requirements and metrics is the key for making the system truely elastic, scalable and self-healing. When using external […]
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How We Built This site
- By Tamir Korem,
- May 9, 2012
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A lot of people have asked us how we built this community web site and what technologies we used. So we decided to share our experience with others in a meetup. The following PPT outlines some of the requiremets and technologies we chose to use to build it – Github Pages, Jekyll, Disqus, Zendesk, Google […]
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Mapping the Cloud/PaaS Stack
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 3, 2012
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Cloud is evolving at an incredible pace, changing almost every aspect of our industry. It’s only natural then, that with this change also comes a continuous evolution of how we classify and categorize the various components of the cloud stack. In earlier days, it was enough to draw the lines between IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, […]
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What's new in Cloudify 2.1
- By Yaron Parasol,
- May 1, 2012
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Today we’re officially launching the Cloudify 2.1 GA release release, so I thought it would be a good chance to recap what we’ve been up to in the past few months. h2. The Lowdown Over the past couple of months we’ve been working closely with the first Cloudify users and customers in order to really […]
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