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What would a next generation datacenter look like?

What would a next generation datacenter look like?Next-gen data center goes beyond data centerDan -- I think there are two trends that will affect the next-generation data center.The first has to do with the fact that today, in the vast maority of cases, development is completely separate from operations. In...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, GigaSpaces, generation datacenter

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

The Scalability Revolution: From Dead End to Open Road

Application workload is growing at an increasing pace, making scalability a prime concern of application designers and administrators. This paper defines scalability, and shows that inherent scalability barriers represent a dead end for today's tier-based business-critical applications. It argues that in order to survive, these applications must achieve linear scalability,...

Tags: Scalability, GigaSpaces, Application Workload

White papers 2007-02-01

Space-Based Architecture and the End of Tier-Based Computing

The emergence of powerful and new commodity hardware and the introduction of SOA/Grid architectures tout the promise of achieving true linearly-scalable systems at a lower cost. Unfortunately, these new systems and architectures are not aligned with the existing tier-based model, which lies at the heart of today's middleware and application...

Tags: Computing, Architecture, GigaSpaces, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-01-10

GigaSpaces - High Performance: Higher Throughput, Less Cost

Designed for today's open environments, GigaSpaces enables pre-trade analytics, surveillance, and trading applications with the ability to scale out across low-cost, open platforms, such as x86 and x64 hardware, running the Solaris OS or Linux. GigaSpaces eliminates the complexity of designing low latency transactional applications by handling all aspects of...

Tags: Asset, Environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance, GigaSpaces, Sun Solaris, Asset Management, Data Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Hardware

White papers 2005-11-15

Additional Resources

Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?

Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?low end cloud computingIf you want to build your own low cost cloud computing you can try software such as ThinServerhttp://www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmRE: Your Thoughts: How mature are cloud computing services?Not really mature. There isn't wide spread user adoption. There aren't any real standards. None...

Tags: Virtualization, Google App Engine, cloud computing, cloud computing service, Salesforce.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-19

Xeround's Intelligent Data Grid

Xerond, the technology you've developed and put into production in the telecom industry appears sound and powerful. Distinguishing what you are doing from what completitors such as Gigaspaces, Gemstone and Oracle's Tangasol are doing is going to be one of your primary challenges. Although there are IT decision makers...

Tags: Dan Kusnetzky, Grid, Management, Networking, Strategy, Telephony, Xeround

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Surprise! Oracle buys BEA Systems

Surprise! Oracle buys BEA SystemsNo surprise at all...was inevitable, only question was priceClearly, the price was much negotiated.If you look at BEA's financials, you would see BEA has actually been going sideways for many years now. License revenues are going down, services subscriptions are the lions share of total revenue....

Tags: Application servers, Middleware, OPEN SOURCE, Java development tools, Enterprise software, Carl Ichan, License Revenue, BEA Systems Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-01-16

Dreams of a dynamic datacenter

Dreams of a dynamic datacenterThanks to Rich MillerRich Miller, of Replicate Technologies, suggested that I expand upon the themes from Friday's post. Thanks for the suggestion, Rich.Dan KThe Missing Piece: Middleware VirtualizationDan --Good topic and post. One of the limitations today is that although virtualization is widely utilized at the...

Tags: data center, environment, middleware, Rich Miller, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Mulesource gets behind open source ESB platform

Open source is well known as disruptive software industry force in the guise of operating systems (Linux, Solaris), servers (Apache, TomCat, JBoss), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and other categories, ranging from business intelligence (JasperSoft, Pentaho) to system management (Qlusters, GroundWork).The latest project to come out of the shadows to challenge the...

Tags: Mule, MuleSource

Blog posts 2006-10-02