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This is a new one on me. I've heard of tree huggers, but Patrick Thibodeau's piece in ComputerWorld today is the first time I've run into server hugger . What's a server hugger, you ask?
Are You a Server Hugger? Don't Be Ashamed - ReadWriteCloud
Research from Principled Technologies suggests that a large UNIX/RISC-based, business-critical database application handling peaks of 10,000 queries per hour is delivering good performance. Using that metric, Principled Technologies set about testing 12 VMs hosted on a server running VMware vSphere 5.0 using the Intel Xeon E7 processor family. How did it handle?
How Do Business-Critical Database Applications Perform Under Virtualization? - ReadWriteCloud
This week two cloud-based services opened their doors. (Can a cloud open? Whatever.)
Two Free SMB Tools You Should Check Out - ReadWriteCloud
Cartoon: The Inner Workings of Cloud Security - ReadWriteCloud
We continue our series of cartoons from Cloudville, that mythical but somewhat familiar place where the laws of IT don't quite seem to apply. Like our last cartoon about beavers , the guys seem perplexed about the inner workings of cloud security and password management. Enjoy and feel free to share with your boss and others that are equally mystified.
Node.js is not only attracting a lot of developer interest, it's also proving interesting to entrepreneurial types. Case in point, NodeSocket , a Node.js hosting business that's in development. NodeSocket bills itself as a "hosting platform and community for developers."
First Look at NodeSocket: Node.js Hosting in Private Beta - ReadWriteCloud
Netflix has taken the wraps off of its ZooKeeper library and has given some insight to coming open source projects as well.
ZooKeeper Library First of Netflix's Open Source Menagerie to Escape - ReadWriteCloud
For the last three years, Brightcove has been implementing a steady transition from a YouTube alternative, to a premium video services provider , to a Web functionality provider. The last critical step in that transition may have taken place yesterday, as the company once considered a Google takeover target makes its move in the fast-growing HTML5 apps platforms market. Unlike appMobi, whose mobiUs ecosystem uses a utility model for billing customers on a granular scale, Brightcove's new App Cloud will be a premium Web apps host.
Brightcove Extends Its Video Platform to Host HTML5 Apps - ReadWriteCloud
To a rapidly increasing degree, Salesforce Chatter is becoming the communications platform for essentially all classes of business, in both the public and private sectors.
Appirio Makes Salesforce Chatter + Twitter Integration into a Contest - ReadWriteCloud
Here's an interesting predicament: Suppose your business' only problem isn't with the quality of the services your software performs, but just with getting all of its databases to work together.
Talend Opens Up Data Integration Processes to the Community - ReadWriteCloud
Google is hoping to entice a few developers over to Google App Engine (GAE) by providing a ticket tracker that runs on GAE for developers to study and test out.
Au-to-do: Google Releases App Engine Ticket Tracker - ReadWriteCloud
To all the other "aaS" providers out there , add this one: MaaS, for malware as a service. Yup, the bad guys have their own routines that can provide a one-stop, full-service shopping for fraudsters. How depressing is that?
Malware-as-a-Service Blooms - ReadWriteCloud
BitNami is going beyond the value-add of bundling popular open source "stacks" of software to start including popular plugins and modules for the software. BitNami is starting with WordPress and Drupal by adding popular plugins for each of the popular Content Management Systems (CMS). We've covered BitNami before .
BitNami Bundles Plugins with WordPress and Drupal Stacks - ReadWriteCloud
Puppet Labs announced today that it is receiving $8.5 million in Series C financing from Google Ventures, Cisco and VMware. The new round of financing brings Puppet Labs up to $15.75 million, which begs the question – what does the IT automation company need with that kind of dosh?
Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware Back Puppet Labs with $8.5 Million - ReadWriteCloud
According to water & stone , the "big three" open source CMSes from 2010 continue to dominate in 2011.