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Understanding the Amazon EBS IO Block Size and its Performance Impacts

The IOPS rate you get usually depends on the I/O size of your applications’ reads and writes. It is very important to know the I/O size your application...

0 replies - 2023 views - 04/20/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

When Amazon EBS-Optimized Instances Make Sense

The performance of a block storage device is commonly measured and quoted in a unit called IOPS, short for Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS). To...

0 replies - 2380 views - 04/19/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

JPPF 3.3

JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid What's new in JPPF 3.3 Forwarding node management...

0 replies - 344 views - 04/08/13 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

Deep Dive into Amazon ElastiCache

Connection Overheads Amazon ElastiCache node (MemCached engine) uses a connection buffer per TCP connection to read/write data out over the network. This is...

0 replies - 509 views - 04/03/13 by Harish Ganesan in Articles

Which Apps to Move to the Cloud?

When travel and talk to companies about the cloud, one of the common questions I get is about how to choose which applications to move to the cloud –...

0 replies - 1356 views - 01/11/13 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Microsoft and Hadoop - Windows Azure HDInsight

Introduction Traditionally Microsoft Windows used to be a sort of stepchild in Hadoop world – the ‘hadoop’ command to manage actions from command line...

0 replies - 2657 views - 12/11/12 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles

HP Announces Private PaaS Powered by Stackato

At HP’s Discover event here in Frankfurt today, the company will be announcing a private PaaS offering, built on top of Stackato, the PaaS which is...

0 replies - 2982 views - 12/06/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Heroku Joins Cloud Foundry for Multi-PaaS Support from Appsecute

Let’s settle two things from the outset – firstly, PaaS is (I believe) the future of cloud services and will be the area for growth in the coming years....

0 replies - 2628 views - 11/30/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play

I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and...

0 replies - 2349 views - 11/29/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

What is Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC)?

At VMworld this year, both in San Francisco and Barcelona, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced the concept of the Software-Defined Datacenter (SDDC). This...

0 replies - 2880 views - 11/28/12 by Brian Gracely in Articles

Qlikview and Google BigQuery – Data Visualization for Big Data

Google launched its BigQuery cloud service in May to support interactive analysis of massive datasets up to billions of rows. Shortly after this launch...

0 replies - 3690 views - 09/25/12 by Istvan Szegedi in Articles

Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources its API Management Engine

I remember when OpenStack was announced – the creation of an open source solution in a formerly entirely proprietary area was something of a bomb shell....

0 replies - 6292 views - 09/10/12 by Ben Kepes in Articles

Heroku vs. OpenShift - The Battle of the JavaEE FUD

Curator's Note: The following article was originally written in August of 2011. Let us know your thoughts by commenting below!On the same day that Heroku...

3 replies - 6841 views - 08/15/12 by Craig Dickson in Articles

JPPF 3.1

What's new in JPPF 3.1 Security JPPF 3.1 brings a new security layer by performing all network communications through SSL/TLS, providing data...

0 replies - 765 views - 06/26/12 by Laurent Cohen in Announcements

How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?

The Big Three - Scala, Clojure and Groovy. The following is an article written by TheCodeGeneral (not too sure who he is, but is quite respected in the...

0 replies - 8659 views - 05/14/12 by Judah Johns in Articles