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 [...]

When Installing a Jobtracker of any Hadoop cluster, be careful on how these two files interact each other: /etc/hosts $HADOOP_HOME/conf/mapred-site.xml To make a long story short,  this is very wrong: $>cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1           localhost   tophat 192.168.3.60   tophat And, if you resolve to hostname in mapred-site.xml $>cat $HADOOP_HOME/conf/mapred-site.xml <!– Put site-specific property overrides in this file. [...]

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 [...]

Great news. Kurt Claeys, the Cloud Computing expert and evangelizer at Ordina Belgium, founded AZUG: Azure User Group. Needless to say: their focus will be the Microsoft Azure platform and .NET Services. First public meeting is planned for September 2009, I will be there to see if I can help someways, count on it. Interested? [...]