The Cloudify Blog

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

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… Read More

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 IaaS… Read More

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 requirements and technologies we chose to use to build it –… Read More

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… Read More

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. The Lowdown Over the past couple of months we’ve been working closely with the first Cloudify users and customers… Read More

Can you shard on a cloud platform in a galaxy far far away? In general, managing a “sharded Mongo” 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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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,… Read More

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… Read More