The Cloudify Blog

Following Nati’s blog post about big data in the cloud, this post is focused on Cloudify’s integration with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, diving into the integration specifics and how to get your feet wet with running the Cloudify BigInsights recipe  hands-on. The IBM … Read More

In a recent article, Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs, predicted “horrible problems” in the coming years as cloud-based computing takes hold. “I really worry about everything going to the cloud,”.. “I think it’s going to be horrendous. I think there are going to be a… Read More

The Play framework *Play framework* is an open source web application framework, written in Scala and Java, which follows the model-view-controller architectural pattern. It aims to optimize developer productivity by using convention over configuration, hot code reloading and display of errors in the browser. The moto of “(newwindow)Play… Read More

Your Application is Installed on a Cloud. Now What ? Ok, so you installed an application on a cloud and now you want to update it, replace your .war file, modify the DB schema etc. I guess, some of the following thoughts may run in your head : “Now… Read More

We wanted to share a few brief updates with you to keep you in the loop on all the exciting stuff we’ve been working on here at Cloudify, including our new 2.1.1 release… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More