GigaSpaces have added Memcached protocol support in version 7.1 of GigaSpaces XAP. memcached is a popular caching protocol and server. The integration provided allows to use GigaSpaces as a memcached server (talking the memcached protocol) enhancing the memcached to provide high availability, write behind, and other features that are provided by GigaSpaces XAP.
Further details can [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage on May 18th, 2010
The VisitMix website has some very nice tips and tricks for accessing and writing to Windows Azure Blog storage. The post goes into detail on:
- Creating An In Memory .xls File And Uploading It To Blob Storage
- Creating and Unzipping a .Zip File From A MemoryStream In Azure
- Using WebClient To Access Blobs vs. CloudBlobClient– [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Mar 9th, 2010
Like many people I have files stored on a number of different place on the ‘cloud’. Some are on email (several different providers), and others are on free storage sites, some are on FTP, documents are on Google Docs etc. Accessing these files as and when I need them is not hard if I’m sat [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Dec 8th, 2009
Further to the post that we outlined from Ricky Ho on NOSQL, he now has an additional post on Query Processing for NOSQL. This is well worth a read as many of the NOSQL products have fairly primitive query capabilities and Ricky outlines how this can be approached. I’d recommend reading the comments at the [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Nov 23rd, 2009
Ricky Ho has done a great job of providing a thorough overview of the characteristics and patterns of what are being terms NOSQL products. This includes looking at products purporting to be NOSQL products, API’s ,data partitioning, data replication, client consistency, vector clock, and more. A very good read.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, HPC on Oct 30th, 2009
With Virtualisation becoming intertwined with cloud computing it is worth taking a step back and looking once again what virtualisation is, and is not. Virtualisation and Emulation are often compared, but there are a set of important differences. Emulation provides the functionality of a target processor completely in software. The main advantage being that you can emulate [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing on Oct 30th, 2009
The Future of the Cloud by Simon Wardley from Carsonified on Vimeo.
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing on Sep 16th, 2009
Interesting article from Pawel Plaszack and the BigDatamatters team that looks at GigaSpaces XAP, JBoss Cache and. InfiniSpan, with also a limited features table overview (re-presented below).
I guess I would add (and I am a little biased !) that the dual public and private cloud deployment features of GigaSpaces should also not be ignored in an industry [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 15th, 2009
It wasn’t unexpected that someone would throw DataSynapse a lifeline, it had been on the ropes for a while. I am just annoyed that I missed it as was on holiday when it happened. I apologise then if my comment seems rather late.
On the 24th August, they day I left for a nice long vacation, [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, HPC on Sep 14th, 2009
An excerpt from the our book, on Cloud Computing Best Practices, is currently featured on the Sys-Con Cloud Computing Journal site.
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