Azul Systems, the Java server appliance house, says Java, Ruby and, for that matter, .NET managed runtimes are pushed to their limits and basically crippled. Their response times are inconsistent, their scale is limited, and they’re unable to exploit modern commodity hardware with its multi-cores and memory. They’re unstable and need continuous tuning. They suffer from daily restarts, garbage collection pauses and out-of-memory errors. Operating systems aren’t optimized for them and virtualization and the cloud aggravate the scaling issue. So Azul, which obviously has a dog in this race, is trying to drum up industry support for a broad-based Managed Runtime Initiative that would fix the problem. It can’t do it alone because multiple layers of the systems stack have to be changed and that needs cooperation from a bunch of projects and vendors. Azul’s effort immedi... (more)

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Transforming the Enterprise into a Cloud

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! Virtualization has fundamentally changed our use of datacenter resources. But, why stop there? Modern enterprise servers, desktops and even laptops also have the capacity to support VM provisioning and therefore represent an abundant, yet untapped, source of cloud infrastructure. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Steve Armentrout, Founder & CEO, Parabon Computation, will explain how organizations can leverage existing enterprise resources to create powerful and secure private clouds.... (more)

Eucalyptus Private Cloud Software Now Supports Windows VMs

Eucalyptus Systems and its open source private cloud software are going to support Windows as well as Linux virtual machines in the new Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0, the major upgrade of the company's commercial software for private and hybrid cloud computing released Tuesday. Windows support will let users integrate any application or workload running on the Windows operating system into a Eucalyptus private cloud. The widgetry covers images running on Windows Server 2003, 2008 and Windows 7, along with an installed application stack. Users can connect remotely to their... (more)

A Simple Approach to Complex Event Processing

What is an event? Generally speaking, an event is an occurrence that brings about significant change in the state of an object from a certain point of view. For example, the "sunrise" is an event that is defined from the perspective of an earthling. Yet from the perspective of an alien, Earth's sunrise is not a sunrise at all, but merely a lonely planet's celestial rotation. On a simple scale, we can view the change of time as an event in itself. Consider a sun dial's interpretation of time. While a sun dial doesn't move, the forces of time act upon the object, thus causing an ev... (more)

IBM’s Dustin Amrhein to Present at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $800 Savings here! Face it, setting up Java EE application environments can be a time-consuming, error-prone, and highly variable process. A cloud computing approach to Java EE application environments can address these problems and more. In his session at the 7th International Cloud Expo, Dustin Amrhein, Technical Evangelist for Cloud Technologies at IBM, will describe how the IBM WebSphere test organization utilizes a cloud computing solution to enable the construction, deployment, and maintenance of Java EE applicati... (more)