For the last few weeks I have been evaluating Nimbula Director’s Beta, in the course of my experiments I had my confirmation that Director is a valuable piece of software and I started to think seriously to invest some more time on it. However, Nimbula is pretty secretive about their road-map; even their Beta release [...]
Day 3 at the Amsterdam conference of the Open Group was dedicated to Cloud Computing. The date, October 20th 2010, coincided with that of the CloudCamp London #9, facing a difficult choice, I decided to explore the uncharted territory of the Open Group. My rationale was simple: I have never (yet) seen or read a [...]
See Mark Anderson’s predictions on 2010… The CEO of Strategic News Service is oracular again (curious how prescience occurs just before quarter’s end) and is here to enlighten us on our near future. It might be me but I am not impressed: 2010 seems to become a very boring year, all trends he describes are [...]
So, I found this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”. Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on Cloud. You can [...]
Warning: this material is outdated, a set of empirical tests was under works but never saw the light It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake.. This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test bench on an Amazon RDS machine. The problem is that mysqlslap [...]
Gosh I LOVE Edinburgh: it is a no-nonsense place, great whiskey and CloudCamps! Have a look at my stream: The big news of this ClouCamp: wifey attended!!! I claim the definition of #cloudwife!! (twitter mention), after the event she started posing me questions on the Cloud and why it does matter that much, well I [...]
It happened to me : transferring huge data files using TCP/IP based protocols is a pain when latency is noticeable. This is a problem that becomes more and more visible when you have computers or applications on different Clouds. Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable [...]
B-Virtual is a Belgian company living symbiotically with cloud solution provider A-Server and developing an IDA-based (Information Dispersal Algorithm) file system. A traditional disk subsystem obtains resiliency against data-loss by duplicating information (RAID 1 for example) or by adding check-sum stripes (for example: RAID 5). In typical Tier 3 or Tier 4 data-center applications, data [...]
