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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… Read More

The following is Part 1 of 2 on architecting highly available cloud applications using Cloudify. The first part introduces the concepts, challenges, and solutions to achieve highest levels of availability and disaster recovery in the cloud. The second part revisits the concept to provide a… Read More

When it comes to running Play Framework apps on the cloud, there are many great options; one of those options is Cloudify. Read “(newwindow)my post”:http://blog.typesafe.com/running-play-apps-on-the-cloud-with-cloudify on the Typesafe blog about how developers can deploy their apps on the cloud with Cloudify. And there’s a bonus – you can… Read More

Couchbase is a great NoSQL database. It combines the power and flexibility of a schemaless document store, in-memory performance and super simple clustering and administration. So it’s not surprising that a good 50% of Couchbase users have chosen to use it on the cloud. For the average Couchbase… Read More

h2. Hi Cloudifiers, As promised just a few weeks ago, we worked very hard to bring you even more awesome features on top of 2.2, with our new 2.3 release. And we’re happy to do it just before the holidays 🙂 In 2.2 we “announced” our “Chef integration”, and a… Read More

Cloud Deployment: the enterprise angle The Cloud is no longer the exclusive realm of the young and small start up companies. Enterprises are now joining the game and examining how to migrate their application ecosystem to the cloud. A recent survey conducted by research firm MeriTalk… Read More

Hi Cloudifiers, It’s always fun to tell you about new features and possibilities. This time it’s double the fun, as we debut a new version, but are already working on another one that will be coming out pretty soon. Let’s start with version 2.2. I think the icing on the… Read More

WebSphere is a very powerful and robust application and in order to make our lives easier, the folks from IBM created the “(newwindow)wsadmin tool”:http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.express.doc%2Finfo%2Fexp%2Fae%2Frxml_commandline.html which enables you to run various scripts on WebSphere. Here in the Cloudify Land, we created a recipe that installs WebSphere on any cloud. Read More

In my previous post Moving Enterprise Workloads to the Cloud on a Massive Scale, I pointed out the reasons for moving Enterprise workloads to the cloud. I also argued that the current approach doesn’t work, as we need to think of moving apps not as one-off projects, or… Read More

Cloud has quickly become a disruptive technology, with the main disruption being a revolution in the way in which organizations run their IT. The poster child for these cloud discussions was often the new Web 2.0 companies such as Google and Amazon who have been true pioneers… Read More

For those who didn’t make it out to the Chef User Group meetup on October 19th at 6:30PM PST at Survey Monkey’s HQ, below is a recording of the session that was presented. Follow Sharone on Twitter!… Read More

The blurring line between PaaS and IaaS  The core of IaaS services is centered around  Compute, Storage Network however over the past years the infrastructure moved up the stack and includes more application services such as Database as a Service, Hadoop Map/Reduce, and application lifecycle services. On… Read More