i had a great conversation with stu charlton thea chief software architect for elastra. we talked a lot about infrastructures and provisioning in todays intrainter cloud infrastructures and where elastra wants to be in the upcoming years.a ill let you in on a secret its all about managing the infrastructure.
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cloud forces configuration management discipline.
as we shift more and more towards provisioning from images rather than building operating systems from scratch installing packages and configuring everything we move towards the holistic build becoming the norm essentially the virtual appliance. tools companies like rpath and elastra are taking slices of what should probably be p...... [Show More]
its been a while since my last post and a lot has happened for both neotactics and cloudscale. im quite excited to make several announcements about the cloudscale project here. although its not the announcement i had hoped to make that we had received venture funding i am pleased about our new direction.
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originally posted september 8th 2008
well am finally going to give it a little bit of a go.a i just posted holaservers to the google app engine gallery and you can hopefully see me here .a wonder if i will get my first real signup based from it.a i have analytics going actually just added a couple more pages so i should hopefully be able to measure the deluge pretty w...... [Show More]
back in july we looked at how cloud computing may force appliance vendors to change the way they build products. now rpath which makes release management tools for virtual appliances is announcing support for ec2 on its rbuilder portal a web site that lets users turn software into virtual appliances and publish them to clouds and virtual environments with a few clicks. its an impres...... [Show More]
neither.
the correct answer is channel. one third party support company named itself for this the covalent bonds in chemistry.
dave rosenberg of mulesource is flummoxed about third party support worried that its taking money out of what should be developers pockets.
actually dave its creating a channel.
its customers who are reluctant to suppo...... [Show More]
sitemeter crashing popular blogs data center knowledge
wow. a third party code snippet from sitemeter crashed several popular blog sites. more evidence that only you can meet your service levels and you should plan for failure.
ibm plans 360m cloud data center in nc data center knowledge
big blue is peeking through the clouds. ive seen more coverage of ibm in this space in...... [Show More]
elastra the san franciscobased cloud configuration startup says it has secured 12 million in series b financing from investors including bay partners and hummer winblad and amazon . elastra is the latest investment made by amazon in the cloud computing sector. last month amazon helped fund rails cloud engine yard to get a foot in the rails world.
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elastra a company that helps manage applications in the internet cloud has raised 12 million in new funding.
this is elastras second venture round and it was led by bay partners with amazon.com and existing investor hummer winblad venture partners also participation. amazons backing is particularly impressive since its elastic compute cloud ec2 makes amazon o...... [Show More]
elastra is a company with a neat kind of cloudbased middleware. the googlegazer expects well see more of them and more like them. founded by serial entrepreneur kirill sheynkman who successfully sold companies to ibm and to bea.a elastra is funded by hummer winblad venture partners an experienced vc who invests almost exclusively in software and middleware and lately has been inves...... [Show More]
theres already a ton of activity taking place in the cloud computing space so much so that it can be hard to know who to watch. in many cases its too early to pick winners. but there are distinct sectors of the it industry that are particularly well suited to the ondemand payasyougo economics of cloud computing. here are eight segments and one company thats a se...... [Show More]
i love cloud computing. i love the concept i love many of the implementations and i love the opportunity that such a major disruption creates for entrepreneurs and tech giants alike. there is much to be excited about though the market is in its infancy. or markets if you look closely. simon noted that at his opscon presentation this year he ended up on the receiving end of an extended di...... [Show More]
from time to time potential users of aws ask me about the best way to set up a highly scalable architecture using amazon ec2 s3 simpledb and sqs . id like to challenge readers of this blog to document their awspowered architectures in a blog post preferably with a diagram and to leave comments with a link back to their posts. ill collect them all up in a future post.
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after a long abcense john john mwillis.co m willis and i return for this episodes. we do some admin house cleaning at first for example figuring out what happened to the zenoss jacket in the no country for old it guys series. the answer is pretty simple tu...... [Show More]
im at web2expo this week followed by interop next week. im moderating a discussion between database heavyweights brian aker director of technology for mysql dave campbell microsoft technical fellow behind ms sql server and matt domo general manager of amazon simpledb. my first question should really be why isnt oracle here
but with the exception of t...... [Show More]
it is not always easy to scale drupal not because drupal sucks but simply because scaling the lamp stack including drupal takes no small amount of skill. you need to buy the right hardware install load balancers setup mysql servers in masterslave mode setup static file servers setup web servers get php working with an opcode cacher tie in a distributed memory object ca...... [Show More]
elastra Post Source: www.stucharlton.com Posted: Mar 31 2008 16:42:43
ive been quite busy this past month organizing a move of my girlfriend and i to san francisco but just a brief note for those that skipped my rather mysterious post on february 29th....
after 3.5 years at bea ive decided to jump to a new startup in the cloud computing space called elastra as a lead architect of their product line.
today elastra provides the software to...... [Show More]
i heard tonight for the first time of a company called elastra . it sounds like they are trying to address a variation of the data center automation use cases covered by opsware now hp and bladelogic now bmc. elastra seems to be in an awarenessbuilding phase and as far as i can tell its working since i heard about them. they got to me through johns bl...... [Show More]
san franciscobased startup elastra seeks to unlock the value of the cloud with a new service that lets enterprises quickly create database applications on utility computing platforms like amazon web services. the company says its elastra cloud server offers an easier way to deploy applications on amazons infrastructure providing customers with two markup languages that c...... [Show More]
a startup called elastra is launching tuesday with software that helps customers build database management systems and other applications that can be deployed on top of amazons ec2 cloud computing service. the elastra cloud server is available in softwarea saservic e form and will be released as packaged software late this year. elastra will initially appeal mostly to small...... [Show More]
acton software
cton software inc. is a provider of nextgeneration communication and collaboration services that transform business email into a true customer communication management service.
blist is the worlds easiest database. blist is all about discovering sharing publishing distributing and subscribing to data at home and at work.
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next thursday in mountain view 32 new or newish companies will present their businessfocused web apps at the under the radar conference. ill be moderating at the event so please look me up if you are there. click here for 100 discount on admission to the show.
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