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Terracotta Acquired by Software AG… What Will Happen to Ehcache and Quartz?

This morning, the software company Terracotta announced their acquisition by Software AG, one of the world's largest software vendors. Terracotta is the company behind some of the most widely used software for application scalability and performance,...

0 replies - 4129 views - 05/23/11 by Ross Jernigan in News

Daily Dose - After Two Years, a New MySQL is Unveiled

It was two years ago when Sun released MySQL 5.1.  Today the open source project's formidable user base will finally get the next major release, MySQL 5.5.  The first major version produced by Oracle includes InnoDB by default, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for...

0 replies - 24478 views - 12/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Terracotta Says 'Goodbye Java GC, Hello BigMemory'

Last month, Terracotta told DZone that they were working on a module for Ehcache and Hibernate users that would bypass the Java garbage collection bottleneck.  The severely limited heap size allowed by the Java garbage collector (if you don't want to have...

19 replies - 25701 views - 09/14/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Daily Dose - Early Victory for SFC in GPL Violation Cases

This week the Software Freedom Conservancy won a default judgement and against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for not complying with the GPL in their use of BusyBox software within their products.  Near the end of 2009, the SFC began their legal action...

0 replies - 12237 views - 08/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Ehcache 2.2 Release Has Snap-in Terabyte Scale

A few weeks after its beta release, Ehcache 2.2 is GA with a new management console and a new storage option that supports 1TB scale.  These features were received with tremendous enthusiasm by beta testers.  DZone spoke with Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey...

0 replies - 4836 views - 07/20/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Daily Dose - JBoss Keeps its Portal Fresh

At this week's JBoss World and Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced the final released the final version of the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 5.0.  The EPP is a middlware framework for developing, deploying, and managing web portals.  A new site publisher...

0 replies - 10868 views - 06/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Terracotta 3.3, Ehcache 2.2 Betas Go Live Tonight!

This news came down today through the Twitter stream with a few links and tidbits of info to share.  Terracotta and their Ehcache, Hibernate, and Quartz products are still on a roll with speedy releases coming almost on a monthly basis.  You can grab the...

0 replies - 5789 views - 06/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Ehcache 2.1 Gets Support for All Hibernate Strategies

It's been one month since Terracotta announced the Ehcache 2.1 beta, and now the GA release is here.  The open source company's release schedule has been 'pedal to the metal' since the Ehcache and Quartz acquisitions late last year.  Today's release...

0 replies - 5767 views - 05/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

Grails With Terracotta: A Few Lines of Config

Dave Klein, the author of "Grails: A Quick-Start Guide" and Mike Allen, the Terracotta Product Manager, recently presented a seminar entitled "Clustering and Scaling Grails Apps: A Simple Approach."  Using an example application from...

6 replies - 6498 views - 05/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Terracotta and MuleSoft Scale Tcat Servers; Ehcache 2.1 Beta Adds JPA

Last week, Terracotta and MuleSoft held a joint web seminar titled "Manage and scale your web applications on Apache Tomcat."  The seminar walked through how Terracotta's server and Mulesoft's Tcat server can be combined to drop-in and scale Tomcat...

1 replies - 5977 views - 04/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Daily Dose - Solaris 10 License Change

At some point during the Oracle-Sun integration, Solaris 10 had a change in its usage terms which has caused some confusion on tech news sites and blogs.  The change is described in this quote from the licensing terms: "Once you have completed the...

4 replies - 17567 views - 03/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose

Terracotta and EnterpriseDB Team Up For High-Performance Private Clouds

Terracotta recently announced another strategic alliance, this time with EnterpriseDB, a PostgresSQL-based database vendor.  Their partnership is aimed at addressing the technical challenges in scaling the data layer in private clouds.  Under their...

0 replies - 5787 views - 03/25/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Managing Web Sessions

In the previous article, I set up a cluster of 2 Tomcat instances in order to achieve load-balacing. It also offered failover capability. However, when using this feature, the user session was lost when changing node. In this article, I will show you how...

2 replies - 6494 views - 03/13/10 by Nicolas Frankel in Articles

Ehcache 2.0 Gets More 'Enterprisey' Features

Today, Terracotta is releasing new versions of Ehcache and the Terracotta infrastructure.  Terracotta's open source products offer enterprise-level capabilities that you might find in a high priced proprietary product like Oracle Coherence.  Today's bundle...

3 replies - 11154 views - 03/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Terracotta and Eucalyptus Forge Alliance

Today, Terracotta and Eucalyptus are announcing a partnership in which the two open source companies will provide tighter integration between Terracotta's data management solution and Eucalyptus' cloud solution.  The two companies will also engage in joint...

2 replies - 3689 views - 02/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles