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Nati Shalom
CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces
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Ramping Up for the 3rd OpenStack Israel - the Biggest One Yet
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OpenStack is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the history and is quickly becoming the de-facto standard for Open Cloud Data Center. The project is gaining maturity quickly with major companies such as PayPal, eBay, BestBuy, Intel,... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Using the Cloudify Player as an Open Source Framework for Building Your Own Cloud Application Marketplace on OpenStack
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In the previous post, I outlined the main lessons learned from the Amazon Cloud Marketplace and suggested an alternative approach for building an open marketplace. In this post I'll refer to a specific implementation of that alternative approach through a... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Amazon Marketplace - Not a Fair Play, Thoughts on an Open Marketplace Alternative with OpenStack
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The Promise of a Cloud Application Marketplace The cloud has clearly emerged as the new world. Today, we find ourselves in an era of land-grabbing in which everyone wants the bigger piece of this new world. Amazon has the advantage... Continue reading
Posted May 13, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Real-Time Big Data with Storm, Cassandra, and XAP
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Real-time Big Data is becoming more and more common in Big Data systems. One of the most common frameworks used for running real-time Big Data system is Twitter Storm backed by a NoSQL database, as shown in the diagram below:... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Paypal To Drop VMware From 80,000 Servers and Replace It With OpenStack - My Take
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Ruven Cohen published an article on Forbes pointing to Paypal's plan to move a large part of its servers from VMware to OpenStack. This is aligned also with what seems to be a general trend where enterprises use OpenStack to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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DevOps, PaaS and Everything in Between
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This month Amazon announced AWS OpsWorks, which is the result of their acquisition of Peritor and the embedding of its Scalarium platform within AWS. OpsWorks is a new framework for simplifying the deployment of applications on the cloud. Given that... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Carrier Grade Cloud/PaaS
Cloud is becoming the next-generation backbone for running the web. As the technology for building and running cloud infrastructure matures, it is starting to spread out into more industries and revolutionizing how even the most conservative organizations are running their... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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What is Cloudify? an End User Perspective
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I just finished a great call with Joseph Weitekamp Joe got introduced to Cloudify by one of my friends and shared with me his perspective on what is Cloudify. I realy liked the way he was able to put this... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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A Groovy Kind of Java
Today's application stack is a much more complex environment than the traditional JEE one. Moving from a Spring/JEE background to the cloud can be a complicated transition. In talk given at the San Francisco Java Meetup Group i tried to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 19, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Living with cloud outages as a way of life...and being ok with it
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Learning from the experience of others has always been a great source for many of the posts in this blog. I happened to have had a meeting with Ron Zavner, Applications Architect at GigaSpaces when he reviewed his planned presentation... Continue reading
Posted Feb 14, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Notes from DevOpsCon Israel
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The first DevOps conference in Israel turned out to be a great success. With a room filled to capacity, and even people sitting on the floor just to take part - the energy level just hit the roof. A great... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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DevOps Con Israel - Behind the Scenes
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I'm happy to announce the first DevOps conference in Israel that will take place on the 28th of January. In this post I wanted to share with you a bit of the stories behind the scene on how it all... Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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In Memory Computing (Data Grid) for Big Data
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The Drive for In Memory Computing? Memory-based databases and caching product has been available for over a decade. However, so far they have been used in a fairly small niche in the data management solution market. There have been multiple... Continue reading
Posted Jan 1, 2013 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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2013 The year of a major cloud world shakeout
Cloud has been around for couple of years now. Following the technology lifecycle, you would expect that we should now be entering the maturity lifecycle where we can expect to see less disruption and more consolidation in the market. The... Continue reading
Posted Dec 17, 2012 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Theres going to be lots of free beverages and coffee , there is a free parking place in walking distance but not at the venue. I look forward to see you tomorrow.
Toggle Commented Nov 26, 2012 on OpenStack Israel II at Nati Shalom's Blog
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OpenStack Israel II
I'm very excited to announce our second OpenStack Israel event which will take place on Tuesday this week, November 27th. At this event you'll be able learn about the latest developments in OpenStack from Jonathan Bryce Executive Director at the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 25, 2012 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Moving Enterprise Workloads to the Cloud on a Massive Scale - The Cloudify Way
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In my previous post Moving Enterprise Workloads to the Cloud on a Massive Scale, I pointed out the reasons for moving Enterprise workloads to the cloud. I also argued that the current approach doesn't work, as we need to think... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Moving Enterprise Workloads to the Cloud on a Massive Scale
Cloud has quickly become a disruptive technology, with the main disruption being a revolution in the way in which organizations run their IT. The poster child for these cloud discussions was often the new Web 2.0 companies such as Google... Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2012 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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PaaS as Infrastructure
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The blurring line between PaaS and IaaS The core of IaaS services is centered around Compute, Storage Network however over the past years the infrastructure moved up the stack and includes more application services such as Database as a Service,... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2012 at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Thanks Yasmin - much appreciated!
Toggle Commented Sep 24, 2012 on Lessons from Amazon RDS on Bringing Existing Apps to the Cloud at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Thanks I'd be happy to hear more feedback from you if you get the chance to try it out
Toggle Commented Sep 10, 2012 on Cloudily explained at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Yes actually i was referring to Trident and Trident state which are part of the Storm project: "Interestingly enough, I recently found out that Twitter Storm came up with an option to integrate an in-memory data store into Storm through the Trident-State project. The combination of the two makes lots of sense and something were currently looking at right now so stay tuned."
Toggle Commented Sep 7, 2012 on Making Hadoop Run Faster at Nati Shalom's Blog
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My point was to say that as in transportation its not an either/or question. There would be cases where you would need to own your infrastructure and there would be area's in which you don't. To your point there would also be other reasons for choosing public vs private and visa versa. If you would note the Rackspace example you could scale also in a private cloud scenario by having an open link to a public cloud i.e. hybrid cloud.
Toggle Commented Sep 3, 2012 on Public vs Private clouds (Again!)- it's not about the cost at Nati Shalom's Blog
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Glad i could help!
Toggle Commented Sep 3, 2012 on Google Now and the Future Shock at Nati Shalom's Blog
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