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Free is not always open, open need not be free: Before most of us had heard of FOSS there was shareware. (Image close up from Appistry.) Shareware was distributed free, often on floppy disks ask your dad what they were. You could use it but you were expected to pay for it if you liked it. ...; Tags: Shareware, Appistry, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-03-28
appistry Open Distribution Not Open Source: Appistry's Sam Charrington (Vice President of Product Management & Marketing) and I enjoyed a long chat about the companies newest marketing move, giving software away to develop a broad developer community. Since I have seen this done before, I wanted to know more about what the company was doing besides...; Tags: Appistry, Application, Open Source, Grid Computing, Appistry EAF, Digipede, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-03-28
appistry and Green Computing: Appistry and Green ComputingSure this is "green" but there's an easier wayI'm familiar with the approach to "utility computing" that makes more efficient use of servers. But saving watts by implementing this entire solution takes a long time. There are simpler solutions such active power management of servers, like at...; Tags: Data centers, Green Computing, Appistry, server; Discussion threads 2007-11-05
appistry and Green Computing: Samuel Charrington, VP of Product Management and Marketing of Appistry, and I chatted about green computing and what Appistry is doing to help. After speaking with a number companies that specialize in application virtualization and processing virtualization, it's clear that one of the next marketing battlegrounds is helping organizations find...; Tags: Appistry, Computing, Appistry EAF, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Marketing Research, Hardware, Storage, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2007-11-05
Cool Codes: Cool CodesCheck Robt Cringely's column this weekI had a professor once who talked about synchronicity, where a new idea suddenly emerges from many seemingly unrelated directions simultaneously. Robert X Cringely (at http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060901.html) was on this week about a St. Louis, Missouri-based company named Appistry that seems to do exactly what...; Tags: Processors, processor, Appistry, not-so, developer, Cringely; Discussion threads 2006-09-03

appistry to fortify MS' IronPython code with its tensile fabric tech: Appistry to fortify MS' IronPython code with its tensile fabric techJim Hugunin is the man behind IronPythonJust in case the readers didn't know, Jim Hugunin has been working on IronPython long before he went to work at Microsoft. Jim released early versions of his Python for .Net & Mono last...; Tags: Development tools, .NET, IronPython, fabric tech, Appistry, Jim Hugunin, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-01-17
appistry to fortify MS' IronPython code with its tensile fabric tech: Appistry formerly Tsunami Research is one of my favorite cool technology companies. Perhaps my most favorite of 2005 and this should be a really great year for them once a few more big shops discover what this company can do with ordinary iron think dirt cheap or recycled PCs....; Tags: Appistry; Blog posts 2006-01-17
appistry upgraded from 'snake oil' to BEHOLD: While I often dabble in application development and have crafted some pretty neat applications, I don't by any stretch of the imagination consider myself to be a software engineer. Particularly since my software development training (one way in one way out structured programming in COBOL, C, etc.) predates...; Tags: Appistry; Blog posts 2005-10-28
appistry: Why buy Xeons when Wal-Mart Pentium 4's will do?: Appistry: Why buy Xeons when Wal-Mart Pentium 4's will do?Make sure you can *TELL* when they failI got one of the cheap Wal-Mart ones to replace my father's old computer. The clock fails sporadically, sometime completely losing the time, sometimes not, this after about a year and a half.Best performance...; Tags: Wal-Mart Pentium 4, Appistry, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Intel Xeon; Discussion threads 2005-05-16
appistry: Why buy Xeons when Wal-Mart Pentium 4's will do?: San Francisco - Gartner Symposium/ITxpo -- When most people think about distributed processing technologies that simultaneously make the applications they host run faster while also making them more tolerant of system failures, the terms "cluster" and "grid" come to mind. Configurations based on Oracle’s clustering technology, for example, promise...; Tags: Appistry; Blog posts 2005-05-16

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Free is not always open, open need not be free: Free is not always open, open need not be freeOpen and free, in harmonyHi Dana,Thanks for your thoughtful post on our new program. We are in total agreement and are under no illusion that Free = Open Source. As an infrastructure software vendor, we work with open source software every...; Tags: open source, need-NOT, Dana; Discussion threads 2008-03-28
Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.: Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.And this is whyWeb 2.0 will die. Only a fool trusts sensitive data to a third party they have no control over.Service interruptions inevitableI don't care who it is. Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, MSFT...everyone is going to have an outage. ...; Tags: Manufacturing, Corporate governance, RAID, outage, Amazon.com Inc., BAD BAD new, Amazon S3 web service, Amazon S3 web services down, BAD BAD, AWS, white board, board, backup, Web service; Discussion threads 2008-02-15
Cloud computing - in your dreams: Cloud computing - in your dreamsSomeone has some sanity left I seeThanks!RE: Cloud computing - in your dreamsI think the differentiators are virtualization and power consumption. It is virtualization that has turned academic exercises into real business prototypes. I may be wrong but I think the brick and mortar data...; Tags: Data centers, Cloud Computing, cloud computing, computing; Discussion threads 2008-01-28
On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service: On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 serviceIt's not going to be pretty for awhile ...The Amazon S3 SLA is a good move, but note that for Coupa to work for a customer S3 must be up, EC2 must be up, the network access to...; Tags: Service level management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Purchasing & Procurement, Coupa, S3 Inc., SLA, Amazon.com Inc., e-procurement, software-as-a-service, on-demand; Discussion threads 2007-10-19
Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2P: Orchestration of resources P2V, V2V and V2PAnother good company is APPISTRYWhy does everyone forget about Appistry? I think they are great, specially because they are first company to focus on being green with EnergySaver. They really have a wonderful product that is easy to use as my brother keeps telling...; Tags: V2P, V2V, P2V; Discussion threads 2007-10-17
When there's only five giant computers left, will one or more of them be Sun's?: When there's only five giant computers left, will one or more of them be Sun's?Now you're channeling Paul Murphy?And the answer is no.That sounds like the famous Intel quote that the world only needs a few comThat sounds like the old famous Intel quote that the world only needs a...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, ROI/TCO, Servers, giant computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., computer; Discussion threads 2007-07-18
Tera-architecture. Gartner says bank on it.: If you believe what Gartner vice president and research fellow Martin Reynolds has to say, then we're heading for a trainwreck unless we figure out how to get the rapidly growing number of connected devices that are coming online in the next few years to operate with practically no human...; Tags: Reynolds; Blog posts 2006-05-15