Archive for February, 2008

Parting the Clouds

February 28th, 2008

I haven’t posted in a long time, but today I came back with a bang. The uber-blog GigaOm posted a blog I wrote as a guest columnist. Thanks to Om Malik, Surj Patel and Carolyn Pritchard for all their help….

When virtualization meets SOA

February 26th, 2008

There have been many separate discussions about SOA and virtualization. Only a few addressed how they relate to each other. Interestingly, while I was working on this post, Geva Perry brought to my attention Judith Hurwitz’s blog - Is Virtualization…

18 Submissions to OpenSpaces Developer Challenge, so far…

February 19th, 2008

Well, this is an exciting moment…last Wednesday was the Early Birds submissions deadline of our Developer Challenge and so far we got 18 submissions! The reason I'm saying "so far" is that even though we passed the first milestone, people can still submit their concepts and final entries until April 02, 2008; click here to [...]

OpenSpaces SVF - Remoting on Steroids

February 11th, 2008

When OpenSpaces was first released, one of its core features was Space Based Remoting. Based on the Space as a discovery, transport, load balancing and failover capabilties, this remoting mechanism provided a a drop in replacement for other remoting implementations, allowing for exposed services to be highly available and redundant and for remote client to [...]

New OpenSpaces Demos and Examples Project

February 11th, 2008

One of the goals of OpenSpaces.org is to promote best practices and recommended usage patterns among the GigaSpaces developer community. To that end, we have decided to dedicate some of our own resources to create a number of sample applications and blueprints that will help realize this goal. We have created a dedicated project under [...]