It is now known that a new BuzzWord is emerging on the Internet and is perhaps replacing, or adding, to the old “Cloud Computing”. Big Data. The two terms, which have been the subject of internet media bombardment, are also two terms that are very closely linked to each other, as we want to demonstrate […]
Lately, there has been a very strong movement and growth of the PaaS (Platform as a Services) ecosystem. Within a couple of months, AWS expanded its roots in the PaaS world by powerfully invading the world of Windows Azure. AWS BeanStalk, a PaaS service born for quite some time now, initially only for the Java […]
While Aruba once again left millions of Italian sites on the ground, VMengine silently migrated, without jolts, without service stoppages, the portal Ninjamarketing.it from a physical server hosted dedicated to an Italian provider, to the clouds of Amazon Web Services. The Ninjas Ninja Marketing is the benchmark for innovation in marketing and communication. Founded in […]
Eucalyptus, an opensource project that we have already talked about in NASA’s Nebula project, in Canonical’s support in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and in our meeting organized with the AWS User Group Naples, amazes us more and more. The compatibility of the Enterprise solution with all hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi), storage support (iSCSI, […]
NASA is launching its cloud computing platform called NEBULA in beta, a platform that integrates a set of open-source components into a single self-service platform. From the architecture diagram you can see database elements such as MySQL Cluster, storage network clustering solution such as the Lustre File System, elements of the Eucalyptus cloud system, Trac, […]
Despite the draft definition of NIST, National Institute of Standards and Technology, we continue to talk about Cloud Computing as if it were the technology capable of doing everything. One of these much-mentioned features is the alleged innate scalability of the technology, so let’s start with a proper understanding of scalability first: We can define […]
Months ago we underlined at the bottom of the article: http://blog.vmengine.net/2008/05/30/marten-mickos-ceo-di-mysql-a-la-sapienza-di-roma/ related to the Roman conference of MySQL at Sapienza, about the future possibilities of creating performance using the new native ZFS filesystem of Solaris and the MySQL database engine. Well something was born, thanks to some features of the phenomenal ZFS filesystem and the […]
A short meeting from 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm, in a modest classroom of the La Sapienza University of Rome via Salaria, with about 40 participants; but very intense, with a lot of active participation, many questions, a lot of curiosity. MySQL, the most used and most widespread database in the world, used in the […]