SOA in the Cloud

There is now a new Amazon web service called ElastiCache meant to put users closer to frequently accessed data and maybe ward off some Amazon competition. It's supposed to make it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache for any web application running in Amazon's cloud, reportedly granting Amazon customers one of their most fervent wishes, and replacing what AWS CTO Werner Vogels calls homegrown "operational muck." It improves the performance of web applications by retrieving data from a fast, managed, in-memory cloud caching system instead of relying on slow disk-based databases. And it's compliant with Memcached, the widely adopted open source memory object caching system used by Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia so code, applications and tools that developers use with their existing Memcached environments should work seamlessly with the service, easing... (more)

UShareSoft to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that UShareSoft, a provider of a self-service cloud factory for virtual and cloud-ready software images, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! UShareSoft simplifies application migration and software governance for the cloud. UShareSoft's UForge Appliance Factory enables "build-to-order" software delivery by automating the creatio... (more)

CloudTweaks Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here! SYS-CON Events announced today that CloudTweaks has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 9th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 7-10, 2011, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Explore Cloud Expo Sponsorship & Exhibit Opportunities ! Established in 2009, CloudTweaks.com is one of the fastest growing cloud computing media sites on the Web. With a team of content creators from around the globe, including CTOs, CEOs, cloud bloggers, engineers and technology enthusiasts, CloudTweaks delivers ... (more)

Book Review: Middleware and Cloud Computing

With the explosion of Internet content, especially that for the IT industry, it leaves an interesting question hanging over the worth (if any) of IT textbooks. When you can find an answer on just about anything online, what’s the point of shelling out money, especially for IT texts that have been overpriced for sometime? Frank Munz’s Middleware and Cloud Computing: Oracle on Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud book is a good reminder of one key fact about text books in context of an internet society, they can save you a lot of research and time on the internet looking for th... (more)

Verizon Buys CloudSwitch

Verizon said Thursday that it's bought three-year-old cloud management software start-up CloudSwitch to help its recently acquired Terremark IT services subsidiary move applications or workloads between company data centers and the cloud. CloudSwitch is supposed to do it without changing the application or the infrastructure layer, which is deemed an adoption hurdle. CloudSwitch's software appliance technology ensures that enterprise applications remain tightly integrated with enterprise data center tools and policies, and can be moved easily between different cloud environments ... (more)