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PaaS - How will it be priced? CloudBees is in an interesting position being so far ahead of the rest of the competitors in the Java PaaS space.

PaaS - How will it be priced?

We have a GA offering that is basically competing with Beta versions from VMWare (Cloud Foundry) and Red Hat (OpenShift). So we have to price our full offering ahead of our competitors. We all have free versions. GridGain Tutorial: Functional Java MapReduce. Running Java in the Cloud with Cloudbees. Sacha Labourey, the CEO of Cloudbees and former CTO of JBoss, was recently in Lausanne to present the Cloudbees platform to the Lausanne Java User Group.

Running Java in the Cloud with Cloudbees

Cloudbees is a platform that allows to develop and run Java (or more precisely JVM-based language) software in the cloud. The company has been famous for hiring recently Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins (or “the software formerly known as Hudson” as Prince would say). Sacha started with a presentation of the Cloud, giving definitions of the famous IaaS, PaaS and Saas acronyms that represent the Infrastructure, Platform or Software as a service markets. In the PaaS segment where Cloudbees locates itself, he mentioned that there was a lot of difference between the PaaS solutions. Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software. We Recommend These Resources The mood at last week's Open Source Think Tank was surprisingly somber.

Death by Cloud - How Amazon is Killing Open Source Software

The 5 Ps of Cloud Computing - A Framework for Discussions. We Recommend These Resources I'm going to refer to this diagram many times in the future, which I call "The 5 Ps of Cloud Computing" (from the non-technical perspective).

The 5 Ps of Cloud Computing - A Framework for Discussions

It's not tied to any companies, products or industries, but rather it's a model that I've used in the past to help guide companies that are looking to solve some of their IT challenges with a Cloud Computing strategy. Let's take a look at the various pieces and how they interact within the model. Infinispan. Performance & Security for Any Website. CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online.

Performance & Security for Any Website

Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network. We automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. We also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. CloudFlare's system gets faster and smarter as our community of users grows larger. CloudFlare can be used by anyone with a website and their own domain, regardless of your choice in platform. Join CloudFlare today and be part of the community that is creating a better web.

CloudFlare features. Appscale - open source Google App Engine. 50 Open Source Apps You Can Use in the Cloud. The cloud computing boom has brought a surge of opportunity to the open source world.

50 Open Source Apps You Can Use in the Cloud

Open source developers and users are taking advantage of these opportunities in three key ways. First, many open source applications are now available on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis. For open source project owners, hosting apps in the cloud offers a new revenue stream. And for users, it means access to excellent programs and support without the need to maintain their own hardware or hire additional support personnel. Also, because these apps are accessed via a browser, they're generally multi-platform and enable more workforce mobility—not to mention that they usually costs less than proprietary alternatives. 5 Cloud-Oriented Operating Systems Available Now - ReadWriteCloud. Google announced Chrome OS in 2009, promising the cloud-centric operating system would be available in 2010.

5 Cloud-Oriented Operating Systems Available Now - ReadWriteCloud

Unfortunately, it will be next year before Chrome OS is widely available, Engadget confirmed this week. Google may release its own Chrome OS netbook next month, and there are already experimental builds available based on the Chromium OS source code. But if you don't want to wait for a finished, supported cloud-centric OS there are several you can download today. Jolicloud. Cloud Computing, SaaS Applications & Business software Blog- GetApp.com. The term Cloud Computing has now been around for a few years, mainly driven by the pioneers Amazon, Google and SalesForce.

Cloud Computing, SaaS Applications & Business software Blog- GetApp.com

More recently, the competition has been growing with more and more cloud apps flooding the market with plenty of new offerings which enable ISV and developers to launch new services very quickly and very efficiently. But how many SMBs are really jumping on the Cloud Computing train and are adopting Cloud based applications and infrastructure ? In a recent research SpiceWorks estimate that 14% of SMBs are currently using Cloud Solutions. Blog: Welcome to CloudBees. The Art of Cloud Computing. Posted by jbrisbin on October 27, 2010 05:05 PM It's not exactly accurate to use words like "legacy" when describing systems like IBM's i5 (it will always be the AS/400 to me).

The Art of Cloud Computing

Our "legacy" systems are so critical to our ($1B) business it's not an overstatement to say that our restaurants could not transact business without them. The simple majority of our development time, energy, and money is spent writing new RPG code, introducing new green screen applications, and finding new ways to make the 400 work with the rest of our expanding private cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft to Make Java, Eclipse ‘First Class` on Windows Azure - Application Development News & Reviews. OpenNebula: The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing. Kodingen - The Cloud Development Environment, Online Code Editor, Cloud Hosting, Web based access to file-system, ftp & svn integration. Business Intelligence in Cloud (Part 1) Cloud Computing is dramatically changing the way businesses view their IT functions.

Business Intelligence in Cloud (Part 1)

For Business Intelligence (BI) software providers, this new concept of product delivery poses many interesting challenges and opportunities, as vendors consider their approach to providing their BI solution in the form of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Top Four Cloud Computing Models. The umbrella of cloud computing is a big one. Like any technology in the early stages of adoption, there are competing models, each claiming to be the optimal configuration and each, more than likely, suited to specific kinds of businesses and specific kinds of business needs. Indeed, the number of cloud permutations is nearly as diverse as the number of companies using them.

Still, over time, there are consistent models that begin to emerge. 2010 State of Cloud and Virtualization Survey (Neat Poster Graphic) Cloud_computing_infographic.jpg (1275×2100) Dynamic Clustering for J2EE Cloud Environments. Cloud computing is one of the emerging paradigms in today's computing world. One of the main advantages of migrating to the cloud is its elastic nature. Elasticity allows dynamic provisioning and de-provisioning of resources according to the application's workload requirement.

In a traditional on-premise J2EE infrastructure, information about the application server and web server resources are available during deployment. Clustering of such an infrastructure to achieve scalability is much simpler since the information about resources is known beforehand. But in a cloud environment, because of its elastic nature, resources get provisioned and de-provisioned dynamically based on the workload. Cloud telephony experiments:Phone as an UI for your web application. In India, there are ~50 million Internet users (source:wolfram alpha). Thats a lot of users and thats why we are seeing a huge spurt in new companies which are coming up to provide services to these users.

Run "any" language in the Cloud with AzureRunMe. Over the weekend, an upgrade to AzureRunMe was released, bringing it to version 1.0.0.8. AzureRunMe is an open-source project for Windows Azure that allows you to run code in pretty much any language you like on the Windows Azure Compute platform. The examples on their site include Java , Ruby , Python and Clojure, but if you can compress the entire runtime and application into a single directory and run from there you can probably manage it. The project came about, says the author, because code samples already exist for running such languages in the Azure cloud, but he thought “there ought to be a simplified, standardised way.”

How Do I Start with GridGain? Hudson's in the Cloud. How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with VirtualBox. New BitNami Cloud Hosting Makes it Easy to Launch and Manage OSS in the Cloud. We’re excited to announce BitNami Cloud Hosting, a new offering we have been working on for the past few months.