Hadoop Summit: Appistry Targets HDFS Market
Appistry, the platform player based out of St. Louis, is positioning itself to target companies considering HDFS (See our previous coverage of Appistry here). Yesterday, Yahoo hosted Hadoop Summit 2010. Appistry made an announcement about some strategic alliances they have built with some of the important players in the Hadoop ecosystem. It is pretty clear [...]
Appistry Introduces CloudIQ Storage for Data-Centric Applications
It’s Cloud Connect week – which means that every Cloud vendor under the sun is launching new products or services. Not wanting to be left out, Appistry today announced the availability for beta testing of Appistry CloudIQ Storage. CloudIQ Storage is a play for data intensive applications in the cloud – beta clients are running [...]
Appistry Helps Build Secure Defense Clouds
Last few months saw the proliferation of Cloud Computing into all parts of US federal government, aided by a cloud friendly policy of Obama administration. In my opinion, government’s jump into Cloud Computing is a strong validation for the cloud based services. Rhetorically speaking, if the government can trust the clouds, what is the problem [...]
Nature's Attack On Amazon And The Instance Vs Fabric Debate
Image via Wikipedia Last week, a lightning strike rendered part of Amazon EC2 belonging to a single zone cutoff from the real world. I don’t want to go into whether it is an outage or not debate but towards a different kind of debate. Ever since Cloud Computing started gaining traction, we have a debate [...]
GlueCon – It’s All About the User
What am I doing blogging at 2am? Preparing for my panel tomorrow which, although entitled “Platforms and Clouds: Building Out Web Apps in the Sky”, we’ll subvert to a different theme. The panel includes; Sam Charrington from Appistry Peter Coffee from Salesforce.com Jeff Collins from Intuit Jeff Fedor from Parkvu I met with some of [...]
Appistry releases CloudIQ Manager; co-founders talk about their company and the Cloud
St. Louis, Missouri-based Appistry [CloudAve coverage] announced CloudIQ Manager yesterday, describing it as; a smarter approach to cloud computing. As companies migrate their heterogeneous applications to cloud-based environments, Appistry CloudIQ Manager provides a single point of application management across the enterprise. Ahead of this announcement, I spent some time last week talking with two of [...]
Appistry Adds Further Momentum to Enterprise Cloud Computing Shift
Few weeks back, I wrote about Appistry Enterprise Application Fabric (EAF) which takes a collection of commodity servers and offers them as a single powerful virtualized resource. It helps enterprises achieve Google like reliable environment without the scale of Google. In the past couple of weeks, we have seen announcements regarding Amazon’s support for Windows [...]
Appistry – Putting Larry Ellison Out of Work
When Larry Ellison trashes cloud computing, the best response will be to put him out of work. You might call this crazy but in the words of Robert X. Cringely, it is just doable. He suggests that cloud computing can get back at Larry by saying “No Database”. We're entering the age of cloud computing, [...]
