The Cloudify Blog
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Mapping the Cloud/PaaS Stack
- By Nati Shalom,
- May 3, 2012
- Uncategorized
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
- Uncategorized
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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Mongo DB Sharding in the Pet Clinic Application recipe
- By Tamir Korem,
- March 25, 2012
- Uncategorized
h2. Can you shard on a cloud platform in a galaxy far far away ? In general, managing a “sharded Mongo”:http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Sharding+Introduction setup is not an easy task but it’s much more difficult to do it on any cloud. When you deploy a sharded Mongo on a cloud (any cloud…), you have quite a few barriers […]
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Big Data in the Cloud using Cloudify
- By Nati Shalom,
- March 20, 2012
- Uncategorized
Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting article on O’Reilly Radar covering the current solutions for running Big Data in the Cloud Big data and cloud technology go hand-in-hand. Big data needs clusters of servers for processing, which clouds can readily provide. Edd touched briefly on the role of PaaS for delivering Big Data applications in the […]
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Lessons from Zynga and Sony on moving from Amazon AWS
- By Nati Shalom,
- March 14, 2012
- Uncategorized
Earlier this month Zynga announced its move from Amazon AWS to its own private Z-Cloud. Sony also started to move increasing parts of its workload from Amazon to Rackspace OpenStack. There isn’t so much in common between these different use cases, except for the fact that they may indicate the beginning of a trend (I’ll […]
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Top Myths of Moving Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
- By Nati Shalom,
- February 19, 2012
- Uncategorized
Special Guest Post By Nati Shalom, at CloudNewsDaily.com Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 per cent revealed plans to move mission-critical apps at some point over the next two to five years. […]
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GigaSpaces Cloudify and VMware CloudFoundry the new PaaS Jailbreaker
- By Nati Shalom,
- January 16, 2012
- CloudFoundry VMWare
I was reading Krishnan Subramanian‘s post, Two Events That “Clouded” Our Thinking In 2011. The thing that caught my attention was Krishnan’s comments on why PaaS is a superior alternative to DevOps: The shift in the thinking about the enterprise cloud consumption also poured water into the “DevOps” concept advocated by vendors and pundits with […]
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Terabyte Elastic Cache Clusters on Cisco UCS and Amazon EC2
- By Sean Kumar,
- January 5, 2012
- AWS
As applications have to manage and manipulate more data using in-memory access greatly helps to speed things up.
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Five Misconceptions About Cloud Portability
- By Nati Shalom,
- November 15, 2011
- Cloud Portability
Three years ago when we started working on the first generation of our PaaS offering, cloud portability seemed to be pretty much “mission impossible.” At the time, we made a conscious decision to focus only on Amazon for our first generation PaaS as practically it was the only cloud in town. Now, there are many […]
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Behind the Curtains of Cloudify, GigaSpaces’ New Product
- By Uri Cohen,
- October 24, 2011
- Cloudify Events
Announcing a new product is a major and exciting milestone in a company’s lifecycle. Our last announcement was the launch of XAP a few years ago – the Xtreme Application Platform aimed to provide a complete end to end scalability solution through the entire application stack, meaning Data, Web, Messaging, everything. Today is one of those […]
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Cloudify for Azure
- By Uri Cohen,
- September 13, 2011
- Azure
By now, if you’re following GigaSpaces, you should probably have heard about our new Cloudify for Azure offering. In this post I’ll try to provide a high level overview of what this offering is about, how it was conceptualized, and what are its benefits for the end user. Cloudify – A Brief Intro If I […]
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